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We tap into the main artery of C’bean culture & entertainment: Film, TV, art, books, theatre, design & style. It might be bitter but it good fi yu!

[Susumba @onsusumba]

Can we get a whoot-whooot! Congrats to both @calabashfest and @kwamedawes

[Calabash Festival @calabashfest]

Kwame Dawes is new poet laureate of Jamaica 🇯🇲 ⁦@kwamedawes⁩ https://t.co/SRPVJGkFM4

[Susumba @onsusumba]

We second that emotion!

[Justine Henzell @JustineHenzell]

Proud bag buss!! @theadjani carrying 🇯🇲 high

[MOBO Awards @MOBOAwards]

Congratulations to the 26th #MOBOAwards Best Performance in a TV Show/Film nominees:

🏆 @theadjani - “Dreaming Whilst Black”

🏆 @DamsonIdris - @SnowfallFX

🏆 Déja J Bowens - “Champion”

🏆 @idriselba - “Hijack”

🏆 India Amarteifio - “Queen Charlotte: A @bridgerton Story”

🏆 @JohnBoyega - “They Cloned Tyrone”

🏆 Lashana Lynch - @WomanKingFilm

🏆 Letitia Wright - @theblackpanther

🏆 @MalcsLDN - “Champion”

🏆 @vivianoparah - “Rye Lane”

Don’t miss the MOBO Awards on Feb. 7, 2024! https://t.co/57Du8FiQ5o

[Adjani S @theadjani]

YOOOOOOW!!! This is CRAZY 🤯😂🥹

[Pamela Mordecai @Refracting]

Reminder... If you haven't yet, please donate! Jamaica should take better care of our cultural workers. Home care for Marjorie Whylie
https://t.co/772Q0y6asi

[Susumba @onsusumba]

Awesome! So proud of his work!

[Justine Henzell @JustineHenzell]

Yes yes YES! Basil Watson’s Windrush Memorial overwhelmingly won the public vote for Excellence in Public Sculpture in the UK. So proud of the 🇯🇲 master sculptor and nuff thanks to everyone who voted #JamaicaStrong #PublicArt @JudithSlater_UK @Babsy_grange @nathanielpeat

[Susumba @onsusumba]

Upfull!

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Two schoolgirls from Lagos, Nigeria, have invented a water purifying device which turns contaminated water into safe drinking water. The girls won the Stockholm Junior Water Prize Nigeria for their innovation which has gained global attention.

[ShelleyMaxwell 🇯🇲 @shelleymaxwell_]

And we’re off! Excited to bring choreography to the stage for this wonderful production. #choreographer #intimacydirector

[Calabash Festival @calabashfest]

London peeps mark your calendar! @kwamedawes and Claudia Rankine. Big tings! @IngridPersaud @scriptopus @nathanielpeat @OliviaCole1

[Rachel Goffe @thisgoffe1]

A statement issued by Citizens’ Right to the City in support of JaBBEM, an organization founded to defend beaches for Jamaicans @CitizensRightJA @bbem_ja

[Susumba @onsusumba]

@JustineHenzell @danae_grandison And now she must be having one hell of a summer! Congrats to you and Drew.

[Susumba @onsusumba]

Wow wow wow.!

[Calabash Festival @calabashfest]

Booker booker booker,
Booker booker booker….!!!
We could not be happier for @J_Escoffery We are dancing to the beat of the @TheBookerPrizes long list #BookerPrize2023 @kwamedawes @JustineHenzell @deikamorrison

[Novel Niche 🫒 @novelniche]

Capturing what is essential about the heart, the beating intent, of a book, in a capsule: this has always been an honourable challenge in writing reviews for @meppublishers' Caribbean Beat Magazine.

Here are the sixteen titles I've profiled for Book Buzz this year, so far:

[Pamela Mordecai @Refracting]

Thanks for this photo of James Baldwin that I have never seen before!

[Susumba @onsusumba]

Talk about iconic photo! Wow, wow, wow.

[Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline]

Contributor: Velma Pollard

A photograph of Michael Dash and Victor Chang with me in 1988. They were great friends. They gave me the title O.T. (Old Teacher) because I had taught them both in high school: Chang at Kingston College, Jamaica, Dash at St. Georges College, Trinidad.

[Susumba @onsusumba]

Big congrats to @KwameMcpherson 🎊🎈🔥. Looking forward to the read.

[Commonwealth Foundation Creatives @cwfcreatives]

A huge congratulations to @KwameMcpherson, regional winner for the Caribbean, for winning the overall 2023 #CWprize! 🎉

You can read Kwame's prize-winning story 'Ocoee' on Granta ✨
https://t.co/JX3gHjdEOM

[Justine Henzell @JustineHenzell]

Poems on the Underground featuring @keimiller
"The only thing far away" #poetry #Jamaica https://t.co/eABofxYMjA

[olive senior @olivesenior]

Ebony G. Patterson Brings a Crowd to the New York Botanical Garden – Repeating Islands https://t.co/KyoTdInwP9

[Susumba @onsusumba]

Truly saddened to hear this.

[Calabash Festival @calabashfest]

Next week, this time.
If you know, you know.
If you don’t, you should.
Welcome back or welcome to the Calabash family.

📍 The Calabash Stage, @JakesHotel

Calabash 2023: For Word
5/26 - 5/ 28
Treasure Beach 🇯🇲

Visit https://t.co/Gb3puve9om

#calabash2023
#calabashforword