Events' Realm

The DUB Treatment presents: Jah9 Live in Celebration of Art Life and Rastafari. Adm: $700 (pre-sold) / $1,000 (Gate). Yoga On Dub @ 5:00 p.m. Showtime: 7:00 p.m.

Countryside Club

Jah9 Live

Iset Sankofa forges ahead of the turntable constellation with a stunningly refreshing kinda sound. This is the 'all genres considered' milieu... where dusty Malian Blues takes a night stroll with Dub, Naija hip hop flirts dangerously with Kingston Dancehall grit,  and bubbly Brazilian Electronica steams a peace pipe with Afro-Jazz futurism. 
 
For this self-described 'bird', she is always reaching beyond the beyond and fetching back what she terms as musical source-code. In that, we can find a song or a groove so undeniable in it's appeal that it not only builds on the idea of the universality of music but of sound itself. Her musical selections have a way of running past the dance-able and the obvious. Usually, the next stop is a bold convergence of history and magic - one that playfully wields the listener into the lush, downright sensuous terrain that music can be. 
 
For Sankofa, hers is an imagined and realized terrain where digital divides are effortlesly bridged in 128 BPMs and new music lifts a hat to traditional sounds via a kind of time-travelling-self-discovering-remixing sort of aesthetic.

Kingston 10

Jamaica

Renfrew Road

Redbones Blues Café

The Sankofa Sessions

ON THE AGENDA will be the  Startup Weekend Jamaica winner showcase; Slashroots ICT4AG Showcase; Announcement about Caribbean Startup Week 2014. We will also have the Technology State Minister Julian Robinson speaking: and the stars of the event in our Idea Pitch Segment…followed by Drinks and Powerful Networking as usual.

NOW OPEN FOR PITCHES! Want to Pitch your Tech related Idea/Startup?. Email Ingrid@connectimass.com with your name and a paragraph on your idea/startup. We accept pitches from the Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora by Skype as well.

If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, developer, college student or tech enthusiast, we want to see you at the next KINGSTON BETA MeetUp. This year marks the 7th anniversary of Kingston BETA and us growing a community. We have held Over 50 events, 5000 attendees and 200 entrepreneurs are come to our events. Entrepreneurs and the event itself has been featured in local, regional and international media and events and we’ve only just begun.

Join us for the kick off of our 2014 series! Come to Be Inspired, Learn, Network!

JOIN US: Follow twitter.com/Kingstonbeta

Kingston 5

Knutsford Boulevard

The Jamaica Pegasus Hotel

Kingston Beta

One monthly Live reggae band show for the development of emerging artiste.. special guest artiste each month.. 
Every month end Thursdays

Eastern Peace Centre

Reggae Kulcha Shock Thursdays

Negril

Norman Manley Boulevard

Bourbon Beach

Wet & Wild Beach Party

Javid Al Karuzi

Sankofa is the major event for Black History Month produced by Liberty Hall: The Legacy of Marcus Garvey. 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the UNIA - ACL and Liberty Hall will host its eighth annual all day educational Sankofa symposium, under the theme: “Building Self–Identity and Self-Reliance among People of African Descent through the Activities and Enterprises of Garvey’s UNIA – ACL.”

Student Teachers are specially invited to the event this year as the sessions will explore “Lessons for Teachers in the Twenty First Century.” Presenters for the symposium include: Dr. Joyce King; Dr. Kadamawe Knife and Dr. Owen Brown.

The Jamaica Conference Centre

Sankofa VIII

The 2nd annual University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) Knights Tennis Classic will serve off on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at the Liguanea Club with an exciting match up of teams from tertiary institutions, high schools and clubs who will compete for top prizes including scholarships and the championship trophy.
 
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Plans for the Tournament scheduled for February 26 -28 at the Liguanea Club were unveiled at a press conference launch at UTech, today, Monday, February 24.  Coach and Tournament Director, Llocket McGregor noted that the UTech Tennis Classic was introduced to "grow the sport of tennis at the intercollegiate level."  He announced that some twenty participants have signed up to participate in the Classic which is open to schools, clubs and institutions.  Confirmed participants include tennis teams from UTech, UWI, GC Foster College and University College of the Caribbean (UCC).  The competition is still open to additional participants. 
 
The competition will run from 10:00 am each day with registration at 9:00 am. Entry fee is $2,000.  Spectators will be admitted free of cost.  McGregor noted that regular FIVB rules will apply for a 6 on 6 format and emphasized that “all teams are expected to be on time for their scheduled matches.” The competition comprises three events: men’s singles, ladies singles and mixed doubles.
 
Prof. Colin Gyles, Dean, Faculty of Science and Sport, UTech told the gathering of tennis players, students and members of the tennis fraternity that “tennis is one of the sports that we have embraced for a long time which is now starting to mushroom into one of the sports UTech should be known for.” He expressed hope that the game of tennis will be more strongly embraced on the UTech campus and that the Tennis Classic is one mechanism for enabling this outcome.  He noted with pride that UTech Knights emerged victors at the 2013 Intercollegiate Tennis Competition.
Tennis Jamaica Endorsed
 
Mr. John Bailey, President, Tennis Jamaica in endorsing the UTech Tennis Classic, thanked the University for its commitment to the sport and welcomed the promotion of tennis at the tertiary level.  He noted that while the whole world knows about Jamaica’s prowess in track and field, the sport of tennis needs to nurtured and developed to world class standards and events such as the UTech Classic can only help.  He reported on the ongoing success of the “Play and Stay” tennis programme being led by Tennis Jamaica in primary schools to promote discipline, focus and improvement in academic performance.
 
Sponsors of the 2nd annual UTech Tennis Classic are Liguanea Club, General Accident Insurance and Hy-Lite.

Events

In the morning

Sankofa VIII

UTech Tennis Classic

In the afternoon

Jah9 Live

In the evening

The Sankofa Sessions

Kingston Beta

Reggae Kulcha Shock Thursdays

Wet & Wild Beach Party