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In commemoration of Black
History Month, Liberty Hall organized an extensive programme
featuring a wide range of activities. Below is a schedule of the
events that took place.
Wednesday February 2
3:00p.m. Movie: Shackles of Memory —The Atlantic
Slave Trade. In this important historical film, the grim
details of the slave trade are made real for a modern audience.
Paintings, documents, and artifacts recount the immensely profitable
trade that enriched the great port cities of Europe as well as
decimated the African people.
Venue: Garvey
Multimedia Museum, Liberty Hall.
Monday February 7
2:00p.m. Movie: The Emperor’s Birthday —
Using old footage and interviews this film sifts through the
sequence of events that led to a Rastafarian Movement in Ethiopia,
England and the Caribbean. It shows that the movement was both
political and spiritual.
Venue: Garvey
Multimedia Museum, Liberty Hall.
Friday February 11
2:30p.m. Movie: The Children of the Gambia
—This charming five-part series for children aged 5-12 was filmed in
Gambia in the village of Kolioli, where Njeme, age 6 and Alieu, age
7, the daughter and son of the chieftain, live with their ten
brothers and sisters. Each episode focuses on a different event
seen through their eyes. This delightful documentary shows children
such African traditions as drumming, dancing and naming ceremonies.
Venue:
Garvey Multimedia Museum, Liberty Hall.
Wednesday February 16
3:00p.m. Movie: Asante Market Women — This
film shows us a tribe in Ghana where the men are polygamous and the
women are subordinate in all domestic matters. In the bustling
Kumasi market place, however, the women reign supreme. These tough
assertive women have evolved their own power structure to settle
disputes over price and quality.
Venue: Garvey
Multimedia Museum, Liberty Hall.
Friday February 18
3:30p.m. Storytelling with Amina Blackwood Meeks.
Venue: Garvey
Great Hall, Liberty Hall.
Friday February 25
9:00a.m - 4p.m. All-Day Symposium: SANKOFA:
Slavery and Its Impact on Contemporary Jamaica — The Ghanaian
Adinkra symbol: ‘Sankofa’, which features a bird looking backwards,
expresses the need to return to the past in order to understand the
present and the future. This symposium examined the psychological,
cultural, political and economic features of slavery and their
continued effects on Jamaican society. Presentations were made by
renowned scholars on Racist Ideology, Slave Resistance, The
Psychological Effects of Slavery, The Effect of Slavery on Jamaica’s
Political Economy, and the Influence of Africa in Jamaican
Culture. The presentations were accompanied by readings of slave
narratives from the African Diaspora. (See also: “Intellectual
Reasoning at Liberty Hall” on this site)
Venue: Institute of Jamaica Lecture
Hall, 16 East Street, Kgn.
Sunday February 27
3:00-6:00 p.m. UNIA Renaissance Show—This event
was reminiscent of the Liberty Hall Sunday public mass meetings of
the Garvey era; featuring an intellectual and cultural programme
with speakers and performers.
Venue: Garvey Great Hall, Liberty Hall
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