Events' Realm

These are two hour art classes that start with a blank canvas/bottle and you paint a complete project by the end of the session.  No painting experience is required, just come with an open mind.

A few sips of complimentary wine and the inner Picasso will emerge.


We cater to all ages.  Wine will only be served to adults, at the wine shop you have an alternative for iced tea or lemonade.

Classes are held for painting on canvas or on wine bottles.  We take the art to you. If you have a group persons, we will come to your venue and conduct the class. We also can schedule a class at the wine shop for you.  Call us now, we can even turn your idea into a party!!!

Kingston

Jamaica

Halfway Tree

Saint Andrew

South Avenue

The Wine Shop

Paint with Merlot

This forum will feature presentations from a diverse group of civil society and government actors that explore major issues impacting persons who are deprived of their liberty such as: the treatment of persons in places of detention and the conditions of correctional and remand centres and police lockups; the mainstreaming of alternatives to detention, effective rehabilitation strategies and sustainable reintegration initiatives within the criminal justice system; and the protection of vulnerable groups in detention such as children in conflict with the law, the disabled and LGBT people.

The forum aims to raise awareness of both the human rights issues facing Jamaica’s detention system as well as recent successes that give us hope. Featured presentations include:

1. "The Need for a Paradigm-Shift in Prison Administration: effective rehabilitation and reintegration strategies" – Carla Gullotta, Executive Director, Stand Up for Jamaica

2. "Government Action Relating to Persons Deprived of Their Liberty" – Senator Mark Golding, Minister of Justice 

3. "Safeguarding the Rights of Children in Conflict With the Law: Actions taken & Needed" – Susan Goffe and Rodje Malcolm, Jamaicans for Justice

4. "Strengthening Monitoring and Oversight for Police Lockups" – Steadman Fuller, Custos of Kingston

5. "Voices from the Inside: Experiences of People within Jamaica’s Detention System"
- Jason Barrett, ex-inmate at Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre “GP”
- Rueben Kelly, Superintendent, St. Catherine Adult Correctional Center
- Sheryl Bailey, ex-inmate at Fort Augusta Adult Correctional Centre  
- George Young, Stand Up for Jamaica

The event is open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Kindly RSVP to communications@jamaicansforjustice.org. Please do not hesitate to contact us for additional information about the forum and JFJ's advocacy on the issue. 

We look forward to hearing from you.

New Kingston

Chelsea Avenue

The Knutsford Court Hotel

Forum - Deprivation of Liberty: Human Rights Issues Facing Prisoners and Detainees in Jamaica’s Criminal Justice System

Knutsford Boulevard

Escape 24/7 Bar & Grill

L.I.V Thursday

The National Gallery of Jamaica is pleased to present Young Talent 2015, an exhibition which features ten artists living in and from Jamaica and under forty years old, namely: Greg Bailey, Alicia Brown, Katrina Coombs, Di-Andre Caprice Davis, Monique Gilpin, Domanie Hong, Howard Myrie, Richard Nattoo, Avagay Osborne, and Cosmo Whyte. The exhibition will open on Sunday, August 30, 2015 and will be on view at the National Gallery until November 14, 2015.

The first Young Talent exhibition was held in 1985, as part of JAMFEST 85, when Jamaica hosted the International Youth Conference. Young Talent 85 featured eleven young artists, including Basil Watson, Omari Ra, Khalfani Ra, and Petrine Archer-Straw. As part of the National Gallery’s strategies to uncover and support new developments of Jamaican art, Young Talent exhibitions have been organized intermittently since then, in 1989, 1995, 2002, and most recently in 2010, and many well-known contemporary Jamaican artists had their first major exhibition as part of the Young Talent series. Young Talent V in 2010 was particularly ground-breaking and launched a new generation of artists who have since revolutionized the Jamaican art landscape, such as Ebony G. Patterson, Phillip Thomas, Leasho Johnson and Oneika Russell. The National Gallery has also staged the New Roots exhibition in 2013, which was treated as a spin-off from the Young Talent series and featured artists such as Matthew McCarthy, Olivia McGilchrist, Camille Chedda, Deborah Anzinger, and Storm Saulter.

To support what is presently an exceptionally energetic and innovative contemporary art scene in Jamaica, the National Gallery now intends to present Young Talent exhibitions every two years, in the years alternating with the Jamaica Biennial. For the present exhibition, Young Talent 2015, the National Gallery opened the selection process with a call for submissions and entries were received from thirty-five artists, from which ten were selected. While most of the selected artists already have an exhibition record, Howard Myrie, Avagay Osborne, and Domanie Hong have just graduated from the Edna Manley College, which continues to be the main engine for development and innovation in Jamaican art.

Young Talent 2015 includes a healthy range of artistic media and practices, including new and more traditional media, including GIF collages, fibre-based work and representational painting, which coexist productively as part of Jamaica’s emerging contemporary art language. While some of it is also deeply personal, most of the work selected for Young Talent 2015 is explicitly or implicitly political—tackling challenging subjects such as gender violence, social dysfunction, power and marginalization, the politics of the body, and displacement and forced migration—and reflects the complex and unsettling cultural and political events and debates that shape the “post-postcolonial” world. One striking feature of the exhibition is the artists’ engagement with the materiality of their work, which is mined judiciously for its visual poetry and political implications. The result is a compelling and though-provoking exhibition, which should produce healthy debate about current artistic and cultural trends and about the broader social and political questions raised.

The August 30 opening function of Young Talent 2015 is presented as part of the National Gallery’s Last Sundays programme, with doors open from 11 am to 4 pm and the opening function at 1:30 pm. There will be no guest speaker and instead we will be screening a short video documentary on the participating artists. This will be followed by a musical performance by Jah9. As is customary, the event is free and open to the public but donations are welcomed, as these play an important role in funding projects such as Last Sundays and exhibitions such as Young Talent 2015.

Orange Street

National Gallery of Jamaica

Young Talent 2015

Events in Kingston, Jamaica

In the morning

Young Talent 2015

In the afternoon

Paint with Merlot

Forum - Deprivation of Liberty: Human Rights Issues Facing Prisoners and Detainees in Jamaica’s Criminal Justice System

In the evening

L.I.V Thursday