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BREAKING NEWS: JLP wins general election The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has been declared winner of the 2016 General Elections after unseating the People's National Party (PNP) at today's polls.

On July 14, 1944, 27-year-old Irene Morgan defied Virginia authorities by refusing to change her seat on a segregated bus in Virginia. Morgan was travelling from Virginia to Maryland when she was told by authorities that she had to move to the back of the bus. On her way for a doctor's appointment and already sitting in the area designated for black passegners, she defied the driver’s order to surrender her seat to a white couple. She stated that because it was an interstate bus, the laws of Virginia did not apply. When handed an arrest warrant, she tore it up and tossed it out the window. Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP took on her case and in 1946 the Supreme Court ruled 7-1 that Virginia could not enforce Jim Crow laws in other states. Bus travel within Jim Crow states was still segregated. Learn more here: http://wapo.st/1LefCb3 Here is another story that pre-dates Rosa Parks of resistance to segregated travel, Lizzie Jennings in 1854 New York: http://bit.ly/1HGDVZG
Image: Newspaper coverage of 1946 court victory in Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia.
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The Beach House Residency Workshops The Beach House Residency is an annual workshop for researchers including art and design practitioners, historians and curators who are concerned with examining and creating artistic responses to the residence of the late fashion designer Trevor Owen.

The Beach House Residency programme in Montego Bay, Jamaica will be hosting its inaugural Open Day on August 10th 2013, from 4:00-8:pm. This Open Day will give an insight into the artists' projects that have taken place over a 3-week period. The residency program was instigated by Joy Gregory and participating artists include Olivia McGilchrist and O'Neil Lawrence, among others. See more here: http://bit.ly/17cCtxp

Beach House Artists’ Workshop, Reading, St James, Jamaica 25th July – 10 August 2013
When we first took over the Beach House we discovered, amongst other things, a store room filled with dress-making materials: row upon row of stiff dressmaking patterns hanging from the ceiling, bundles of material, boxes of buttons, numerous jars of odds and ends, along with several portfolios of designs, newspaper clippings, address books, and notebooks with measurements of former clients. These all belonged to a previous owner Trevor Owen, who had died a few years before.
Trevor Owen was once part of a vibrant Jamaican fashion industry, and had been recognised by the Fashion Awards Academy of Jamaica for his outstanding service and dedication to the development of Jamaica’s fashion industry with a special award in 1986.
We kept all of Trevor’s design books and patterns because it seemed criminal to throw them away, but without any clear idea of what we might do with them. Last year, the Jamaican fashion magazine Panache contacted us and featured Trevor as part of a retrospective of Jamaican fashion designers celebrated as part of the 50th anniversary of independence. Then, later in the year the artist Joy Gregory, a long-time friend, came to stay at the Beach House for a few days, and I showed her the Trevor Owen archive.
I was well aware of her interest in forgotten or marginalised historical figures (Matron Bell, Mary Seacole) and I asked her if she would be interested in creating an event that would focus attention on Trevor – celebrating his life and times during the period leading up to and after Jamaican Independence.
She accepted immediately and the first Beach House artists’ residency will take place in July and August 2013.
Joy has invited writer and design historian Davinia Gregory; the Jamaican photographer O’Neil Lawrence (who is also an education officer at the National Gallery of Jamaica); filmmaker and performance artist Olivia McGilchrist who was born in Kingston, educated in France and who returned to the island in 2010; and artist and printmaker Marianne Keating who was born in the ROI and has exhibited all over the world.
Some aspects of the project Joy plans to run in collaboration with the National Gallery of Jamaica and then later the Edna Manley School of Art in Kingston. She hopes this first workshop will facilitate an on-going relationship that will expand as it develops providing opportunities for younger artists to work alongside more established practitioners in the production of new work.
Looking good, as Joy noted when she first proposed this project, is an essential feature of Jamaican culture and is a central part of everyday life, pervades everything through appearance, conversation, music, and dance. Joy has been invited to present a paper on the artists’ response to the archive as part of a panel at the Design History Society Annual Conference in Ahmedabad, India. This takes place in September 2013, so on this occasion we are inviting the participating artists to make work in response to the un-catalogued archive of Trevor Owen. It is the work made by these artists and Joy in response to this that she will present at the conference: the context of Jamaican art, design, style, and fashion.
We hope that this will be the pilot for a longer residency programme and Joy has been invited to apply for some funding next year so as to invite artists from Africa, Asia and the Pacific to join with Jamaican artists. This would be a major boost to the cultural scene in Montego Bay, and Jamaica.

Links
http://www.joygregory.co.uk/
http://www.mariannekeating.com/
http://oneillawrence.com/
http://oliviamcgilchrist.com/

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Legacies of British Slave-ownership On Wednesday 27th February, Catherine Hall will give a public lecture entitled 'Towards a new past: the legacies of British Slave-ownership' to celebrate the publication of the Encyclopaedia of British Slave-ownership and the inauguration of our new project, The Structure and Significance of British...

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Jamaica parties all night after Usain Bolt's Olympic victory on eve of 50th anniversary of independe Bolt posted a picture on Twitter at 3am posing with three beautiful women, while back home in Jamaica there was double cause for celebration on the 50th anniversary of the island's independence

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Bolt wins 100m final in Olympic record :: News Jamaica’s Usain Bolt has ran a blistering 9.64 seconds to claim gold and successfully defend his title as Olympic champion.

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Jamaica Emancipation Day today ... August 1st ...

Sittin' in the morning sun
I'll be sittin' when the evening comes
Watching the ships roll in
Then I watch them roll away again, yeah

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Cacoon All-Age forges link with British school - Lead Stories - Jamaica Gleaner - Saturday | May 26, IN JAMAICA'S golden Olympic year, a special bond is growing between a Hanover school and youngsters 5,000 miles away in Wolverhampton, England. Children at Cacoon All-Age School in Dias, Hanover, are getting to know pupils at Uplands Primary School in Finchfield, Wolverhampton, now that the head tea...

Very pleased to welcome Tricia from Panache Magazine to the Beach House this week. Tricia is researching some of the great names of Jamaica's fashion heritage, and Trevor Owen, the previous owner, was a leading designer and dressmaker in the 1960s-1980s. We still have some of Trevor's original design sketches and we're looking forward to seeing them in Panache's special Jamaica 50th anniversary issue.

Jamaica Independence Day today. Let's celebrate.

http://www.jis.gov.jm/special_sections/Heroes/Heroes.htm Today is Jamaica's National Heroes Day.

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Louise Bennett would have been 91 on 7 September 2010. She was such a brilliant artist, and a lovely lady when you meet her. Do let us take a moment and go back and reflect on her work. http://louisebennett.com/bio.asp

..:: Welcome to the Official Louise Bennett Coverley (Miss Lou) Website ::.. Louise Bennett was born on September 7, 1919. She was a Jamaican poet and activist. From Kingston, Jamaica Louise Bennett remains a household name in Jamaica, a "Living Legend" a...

Congratulations to Jamie and Mary who got engaged this week whilst staying at the Beach House. We wish you a long and happy life together.

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Jamaica Gleaner News - As fit as a fiddle - Lead Stories - Thursday | July 1, 2010 When Ruby Lawrence walks into the gym, she gets all the stares. Of course, that's not uncommon for b***y 20-somethings with butt-hugging tights. But for the bespectacled fitness buff, who is quite a looker in her own right...

Good news. Orchard Health Centre is situated very near to the Beach House and it's just received a fantastic upgrade. Read the full story here. http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100413/news/news1.html

Jamaica Gleaner News - Hanover's Orchard becomes a reality - News - Tuesday | April 13, 2010 WESTERN BUREAU: Some US$1 million was spent on upgrading and equipping the Orchard health facility in Hopewell, Hanover, that will serve both local and international patients from the parish and surrounding areas...

Tim was due to fly back to the UK on a BA flight since Thursday last week but is still grounded at the Beach House. Very disappointing but, of course, he could have been grounded in a worst place.

It is 29 degrees in Jamaica today. Book your holiday at the Beach House now!