A special event to raise funds for the Haitian refugees in Jamaica will be presented by a UNESCO Task Force organized to commemorate 2004 as the Year of the Struggle Against Slavery and the Bicentenary of the Haitian Revolution. The event, “The Griots Tales: a Historical Narrative of Slavery, Abolition and
Emancipation” is to be staged at the UTECH Sculpture Park on Saturday, March 20 at 6:00 p.m.
”The Griots Tales” will be a sound-and-light production that includes dance, music, drumming and poetry. Directed by Task Force committee member L’Antoinette Stines from a script by Barbara Blake Hannah, Narrators and Griots include Jean Small, Mutabaruka, Ras Sam Clayton, UWI Professor Verene Shepherd and poet Neto Meeks. Dances performed by the L’Acadco, NDTC and UTECH Dancers will be accompanied by the Akwaaba, L’Acadco and Kingston Technical High School drummers.
The UNESCO Task Force was established in December 2003 by UNESCO Caribbean Cultural Co-ordinator Alwyn Bully as part of the international activities of UNESCO’s Slave Route Project.