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Now Playing: CULTURAMA 2011
Mello-Go-Roun'

Sunday July 31, 2011

Coral Springs Center for the Arts
Starts at 7:00 pm

 

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  Friends of Jamaica Awareness, Inc. and Jamaican and Caribbean Culture Supporters.

Jamaica Awareness, Inc. Celebrates 27 Years of Excellence in Bringing Culture from Across the Caribbean to South Florida and Beyond!

Jamaica Awareness, INC. is the premiere presenter with the “Caribbean-Consciousness” approach BUILDING bridges and STRENGTHENING connections between Caribbean cultures and the wider community. 
 

 
   

“In giving thanks for the many blessings and challenges successfully overcome over the past 25 years, Jamaica Awareness, INC. salutes those who, in the early years, in the 1970’s and 80’s, were the pioneers in the image-making and banner-bearing for the Caribbean region here in ‘foreign lands,’” says President, Sydney S. Roberts.

For helping to shape the forms and directions of Caribbean culture, at home and abroad Anthony Baker, Eslee Carbury, Desi Worrel, Marva Gallimore, Lance Evans, Pat White, Cynthia Wegmann, Viking, Winston Chin Quee, Arnold Henry, Noel Robinson, Selman Lewis, among others, who have gone to join the Ancestors, after abroad. 

Clint O’Neil’s Needy Kids Toy Drive, Caribbean Heart Menders, Jamaica Folk Revue, among others.

Post-Hurricane Gilbert Relief organizational effort, through which a major portion of the overseas relief to Jamaica was funneled, was run from the offices of Jamaica Awareness, INC. Incubator for other community groups and organizations, and individuals. 

Twenty-five years ago, pioneering media workers and facilitators (some of whom have become media institutions) were springing up among Caribbean immigrants, encouraging the development of media personalities and products Clint O’Neil on WLRN radio, Caribbean Lifestyles magazine, Caribbean Echo newspaper, and the now-many-branched and multi-talented Caribbean Media family.

Caribbean music concerts in South Florida at the forefront of promoters and nurturers of Caribbean music the Caribbean media community, the abundantly-flowering Caribbean music-and-entertainment industry Evolving and sustaining the Caribbean Carnival movement. Nurturing the birth, life, and growth of South Florida netball and soccer, and cricket leagues.

 

Who stepped up to the plate to strengthen and support the infant South Florida Caribbean community when it reached out. Without them, and others like them, the journey would have been much harder

Early pioneers of corporate goodwill, support, and sponsorship for a then-much-smaller Caribbean community included Air Jamaica, Red Stripe Beer, Albert Lee of Pepper Pot Restaurant on 27 Ave in Miami, across the street from MDC-North. Other early corporate supporters of Jamaican and Caribbean culture included Just Cooool, Rankin Records, and Pepper’s Restaurant in Ft Lauderdale.

 

the very significant, though understated from, the public, and the stores, shops, and other outlets for tickets and promotional materials for their long-standing and committed support, THANKS ALSO TOthe media family, with clear and sincere recognition of the role of the Caribbean media, and to the political leadership.

The cultural community, especially the Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs, Cultural Affairs Council, Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, Southern Arts Federation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Florida Department of Cultural Affairs, and the City of Miami.

 

All builders of community, To those who have been supporters of the Caribbean Community and Jamaica Awareness, whether through sponsorship or morale support, JA says a hearty and sincere “Tenk yuh!” on behalf of all of us. We look forward to continuing and enhancing the supportive reciprocal relationship between community, organization, corporations, and individuals across, and beyond, the Caribbean” Jamaica Awareness (JA) has been present, and involved, in the budding, building, and growing of the Caribbean community; and as the American community continues to appreciate its abundant Caribbean gifts, the organization is blessed to be able to be an integral part of a global sharing community.