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Jamaican musical trailblazers made Toronto a world-class reggae hotspot

August 1, 2024 admin Arts and Culture, culture, diaspora, Jamaica, jamaican canadian, Living, music industry in canada, national film board of canada, nfb, reggae

Credit to Author: Ramya Ramanathan| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:40:27 +0000

At the height of the golden age of reggae, some of Jamaica’s brightest stars left their homeland to relocate to Toronto. Now their stories and the musical community they helped build are celebrated in an anthology series Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land.

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Jaipur Literature Festival comes to Toronto

September 11, 2019 admin culture, diaspora, international writers, jaipur literature festival, Living, news

Credit to Author: Ramya Ramanathan| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 22:50:57 +0000

For the first time ever, Toronto’s Distillery District is set to recreate the spirit of Jaipur’s annual literary carnival bringing a heady mix of writers, thinkers, poets and storytellers. From September 27-29, 2019, Teamwork Arts, producers of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), bring to Canada a celebration of literature and the power of dialogue, with […]