Fiona Godfrey has been commissioned to do a huge 75ft mural for the Montego Bay airport. YardEdge talks to Fiona about what it takes to accomplish this mammoth task and about being an artist in Jamaica…

Please support these events this weekend for the Rotary Race to Literacy FRIDAY Rotary First Friday at the Deck – March is Literacy Month 6pm-10pm

SeBiArt aka Berette Macaulay has entered her video “LABYRINTH OF FOREVER: Doorway for the Spirit Chasers” in the annual Art For Progress competition: Clash of the Artists 2010 and needs your vote! It’s a small annual global contest with a handful of competitive categories: Visual Art, Music, Film, Fashion, DJ,

“Art Fresh”, being opened on Thursday March 4 at the Mutual Gallery at 7pm, is yet another demonstration of talent amongst the younger generation of artists.

Wednesday, Feb 24, YardEdge and Brand New Machine presented the Exhibitionist “Picture This” which showcased the talents of three young up and coming Jamaican photographers:  Joanna Francis, Julian Cresser and Neil E. Williams.

The Philip Sherlock Center for the Creative Arts is presenting the 2nd Annual Jamaica Dance Umbrella (JDU) from Friday March 5th to Sunday March 7th. This amazing dance event is being dubbed “a celebration of excellence in dance theater” and is dedicated this year to Professor Rex Nettleford.

A special appeal for children… Scholastic has made available to the Rotary Race to Literacy Project special books for children – with interactive features and textures. Scholastic not only makes ideal early childhood education books, but they are offering books in their packages that cannot be sourced locally – books

RiseUp, directed by Luciano Blotta features reggae greats such as Lee “Scratch” Perry, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare and many up and coming rising stars.  This film is being hailed as “the best reggae film since The Harder They Come”. Read more at Blackstar News See  website for RiseUp

The Golden Tongue Award will be awarded to the winners of an annual poetry competition taking place in Mandeville on February 28th. The entrant(s) will be asked to write a poem depicting and reflecting some aspect of Jamaican life in a positive and realistic way. The poems entered will be

…featuring an exhibition of photography from Julian Cresser, Joanna Francis and Neil E. Williams, three of Jamaica’s most talented up and coming photographers. Also, welcome back Diplo, as the special guest DJ along with Engineroom and Ricky Eminence.