Flagstaff: Kojo’s Palace from Bart Robinson on Vimeo. Here’s a mini-documentary about the community of Flagstaff, Jamaica which tells the history of the Maroon Wars, shows the current landscape, and offers greetings to the Maroon community in Sierra Leone. This video will be carried by representatives from the Flagstaff community

Here are some photos taken from my last visit to the Charles Town Maroon community in the Buff Bay Valley in Portland. Charles Town is a Maroon Community located approximately 20 minutes drive south of Buff Bay. The town is known for its Maroon history and culture, its Safu Yard,

The Poetry Society of Jamaica presents “Verse – The Art of Rhyming” on July 26 at the Edna Manley College. Poets are welcome to come share their poetry.  

Here’s a brief film by Marcelo Munes documenting some of the students, their parents and their thoughts and hopes for the National Youth Orchestra programme. Very cool and inspiring – check it out!

Looking for something fun to do this independence weekend? Check out BNM’s Eye Candy party on July 29 at the ex-Hard Rock Cafe in Ochi. It’s Delta’s SKY MAG’s PICK for the weekend too! The party promises “Miami’s Fiercest DJs Richie D & Friends teaming up with JA’s finest house DJ’s STEREO

Check out this review of a great new restaurant, EITS, located up in the Blue Mountains reviewed by a cool new blog on Jamaican food Nyamist.com. “In a perfect world, all Sunday brunches would be this good: relaxing in the cool breeze, gazing out over lush, verdant mountains, eating fresh, homemade

Here’s an interesting conference coming up at Ryerson University in Toronto on July 24 – 26, “Counter Cultures: An international conference on exploring shopkeeping in the Chinese diaspora”. Keynote speakers: Dr. Keith Lowe, Dr. Lily Cho and Dr. Jack Tchen For more info on this subject see Searching for Mr. Chin

Here’s a cool video with the highlights of the Portland Jerk festival 2011!

On Monday July 18, at 5:30 p.m., Bookophilia will launch two titles, from legendary poet, memoirist, journalist, literary scholar and creative writing teacher, the late Wayne Vincent Brown. The two collections, “On the Coast and other Poems” and “The Scent of The Past & Other Stories”, were posthumously published by

F.Y.I. ALL!  We’re now using our YardEdge facebook page to share the myriad events happening around town and across the island that we think are worth checking out. So please “like” our facebook page to stay informed of some of the amazing variety of cool arts and culture “happenings” here in JA. Facebook