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“Last Sundays, September 24” feat. performance by Quilt and
'Annabella & Peter Proudlock Collection' at NGJ |
Event: “Last Sundays, September 24, 2017” featuring 'The Annabella and Peter Proudlock Collection' @ 11:00am to 4:00pm and performance by Quilt @ 1:30pm at NGJ — Jamaica, WI;
Event Details – Where: National Gallery of Jamaica; Location: 12 Ocean Blvd, Block C, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies (Entrance is on Orange Street); Tel:
1-876-922-1561
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1-876-922-1563
; Fax:
1-876-922-8544
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E-mail: info@natgalja.org.jm; Opening hours: Tues-Thurs: 10am to 4:30pm; Fri: 10am-4pm; Sat: 10am-3pm; Last Sundays: the NGJ is open every last Sunday of the month, normally 11am-4pm
Event Description: “The National Gallery of Jamaica’s Last Sundays programme for September 24, 2017 will feature the Quilt Performing Arts Company. Visitors will also be able to view the 'We Have Met Before' and the 'Annabella and Peter Proudlock Collection' exhibitions. The Quilt Performing Arts Company was born out of a need for a fresh, new, innovative way of creating performance art. Using Caribbean rhythms, merging poetry, music and dance, the Quilt performers have developed their own unique performance style and an evolving theatre technique. Artistic director Rayon Mclean and his team continue break boundaries and redefine performance spaces, and this time the women in the company will be quilting from their heART through music, poetry and dance. The show is called #POW- Patches of Women. This is Quilt’s third time at the National Gallery. 'We Have Met Before' opens at the National Gallery of Jamaica on September 22 and is staged in partnership with the British Council. The exhibition features Graham Fagen (Scotland), Joscelyn Gardner (Barbados/Canada), Ingrid Pollard (Guyana/UK), and Leasho Johnson (Jamaica) and revisits the challenging but important subject of trans-Atlantic slavery and its afterlives in the contemporary world, interpreted by four artists with distinctive perspectives. The exhibition brings these perspectives into dialogue and invites the public to participate to the ongoing and crucially important conversations on the subject. The 'Annabella and Peter Proudlock Collection' exhibition features selections from the collection of Annabella and Peter Proudlock, who were the principals of Harmony Hall gallery in Tower Isle, St Mary. It documents some fifty years of collecting, mostly of Jamaican art but also of art and craft from elsewhere in the Caribbean and Central America. The exhibition tells the story of Harmony Hall, which holds a unique position in the history of Jamaica’s commercial galleries as it has served the local and tourist markets, and focuses on its role in the promotion of Intuitive art. And it also tells the story of group of people who were deeply immersed in the cultural and artistic developments of post-independence Jamaica, to which they actively contributed. The National Gallery of Jamaica’s doors will be open from 11 am and close at 4 pm on Sunday, September 24, 2017 and the Quilt performance will start at 1:30 pm. As is customary, admission will be free and there will also be free tours of the exhibitions. Contributions to the National Gallery’s donations box are as always appreciated. The National Gallery gift and coffee shops will be open for business and proceeds from these ventures help to fund programmes such as Last Sundays as well as our exhibitions ...” — Read more: National Gallery of Jamaica Blog
For further information:
National Gallery of Jamaica Blog,
National Gallery of Jamaica.org and
National Gallery of Jamaica-Twitter.