Posts Tagged ‘hope road’

Women Fuse Sight, Sound At Seh Sup’m

15/12/2011

Root Cause, organisers of the Seh Sup’m Poetry and Live Music series, has teamed up with Manifesto Jamaica – an NGO devoted to youth empowerment and nation building through art and culture – to introduce a thrilling new concept to the Seh Sup’m audience on August 29.

Seh Sup’m: Omega Vibration will fuse photography, poetry and live music into a dynamic display of seven of Jamaica’s most prolific young female artists. The event, conceptualised by Janine ‘Jah9′ Cunningham, will feature an audio-visual exploration of five distinct themes.

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Different but powerful

You don’t need to be conventional to be heard. Art can change a nation’s course. These were the ideas present at ManifestoJA’s bi-weekly event, ART’ical Exposure.

Last Friday’s staging of the event at Bookophilia, Hope Road, with the theme ‘Roots Rock’, sought to expose talent ManifestoJA discovered through its community activities.

Mixed in with this was the appearance of rising poster boy of uptown dub/roots/reggae, Protoje and powerful female performer Jah9.

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