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25th March 2009 Edition 5

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Using Caribbean Arts and Culture to address issues in Schools,

O�ender Services and Mental Health Provision

Keynote speakers:Professor Fred Hickling and Yasus Afari

Session 1 11am – 1.00pm, with opportunities for artistes to showcase their work (please bring own lunch – as there are not catering facilities on this site)

Presentation and discussion of some of the current UK Government initiatives and their potential to enable Caribbean Arts Practitio-ners to make an even more e�ective contri-bution to supporting education, o�ender services and mental health services.

Session 2 2pm – 4.00pm, with discussion til 5.00pm Chaired by Dr Peter Lewis

Presentation by Professor Fred Hickling with the latest information about his work

Presentation by Jamaican Dub Poet and Artiste, Yasus Afari, to explore the approaches he has developed and success-

fully uses.

N. B. Participants can book for one or both

sessions

Professor Fred Hickling, is currently the Professor of Psychiatry at the University of the West Indies, and has pioneered Caribbean Cultural Therapy since the 70’s. Prof Hickling has spent time in the UK developing and delivering approaches

Wednesday 8th April 2009 Brooksbank Hall, University of Birmingham

N. B. This is a FREE event – but places must be booked

to group and individual psychotherapy which is grounded in “the dialectic* historical experience of the Caribbean” (*the art of investi-gating the truth of opinions and testing the truth by discussion and logical dispu-tation: criticism dealing with metaphysical contradictions and their solutions.)

Professor Hickling has agreed to make a short stop-over in the UK between his other international engagements to meet with sta� working in education, o�ender services and mental health services, as well as Cultural Arts practitioners and others involved in addressing the issues that the Caribbean communities face in the UK today.

Yasus Afari initiated the programme of Culture Agents in Jamaican schools in the 1980’s which involved Artistes using an “edutainment” approach to work with schools to ensure that children are brought up feeling con�dent in their own identities and heritage. Since spending time in the UK recently, Yasus Afari has been exploring ways to enable school children, people in o�ender services and mental health support

services to explore their identities and heritage through his “edutainment” approaches.

Yasus Afari has returned to the UK as an “Ambassador for Rastafari” on his 2009 Tour to promote his book “Over-standing Rastafari: Jamaica’s Gift to the World”. He will be continuing to develop his “edutainment” strategy working closely with other artistes and professional colleagues in UK.

To book please contact Liz Millman, Learning Links International:

[email protected] 07711 569 489 or 01902 429185

Yasus Afari




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Lord .... Why did you make me black?Why did you make someone the world would hold back?Black is the color of dirty clothes, of grimy hands and feet...Black is the color of darkness, of tired beaten streets...Why did you give me thick lips, a broad nose and kinky hair?Why did you create someone who receives the hated stare? Black is the color of the bruised eye when someone gets hurt...Black is the color of darkness, black is the color of dirt..

Why is my bone structure so thick, my hips and cheeks so high?Why are my eyes brown, and not the color of the sky?

Why do people think I'm useless?How come I feel so used?Why do people see my skin and think I should be abused?

Lord, I just don't understand...What is it about my skin?Why is it some people want to hate me and not know the person within?

Black is what people are 'Labeled' when others want to keep them away...Black is the color of shadows cast...Black is the end of the day.

Lord you know my own people mistreat me, and you know this just ain't right...

They don't like my hair, they don't like my skin, as they say I'm too dark or too light!

Lord, don't you think it's time to make a change?Why don't you redo creation and make everyone the same?

GOD's Reply:Why did I make you black?Why did I make you black?

I made you in the color of coal from which beautiful diamonds are formed...I made you in the color of oil, the black gold which keeps people warm.

Your color is the same as the rich dark soil that grows the food you need...Your color is the same as the black stallion and panther, Oh what majestic creatures indeed!

All colors of the heavenly rainbow can be found through-out every nation...When all these colors are blended, you become my greatest creation!

Your hair is the texture of lamb's wool, such a beautiful creature is he...I am the shepherd who watches them,I will ALWAYS watch over thee!

You are the color of the midnight sky, I put star glitter in your eyes...There's a beautiful smile hidden behind your pain...That's why your cheeks are so high!

You are the color of dark clouds from the hurricanes I create in September...I made your lips so full and thick, so when you kiss....they will remember!

Your stature is strong, your bone structure thick to with-stand the burden of time...The re�ection you see in the mirror, that image that looks back,..that is MINE!

So get o� your knees,look in the mirror and tell me what you see?I didn't make you in the image of darkness...I made you in the image of ME!






A Jamaican living in the States was down on his luck. Out of work and broke, he started going around to various Companies in the city begging for a job, any job. Finally he got to the zoo. The zoo-keeper looked stressed out. The monkey escaped last night", the zoo-keeper said, If you are willing to put on a monkey suit and stand in the monkey's cage for a couple days, I'll pay you". The Jamaican immediately accepted. The pay was OK and the work wasn't hard. He swung from the tree, and the kids fed him fruits and nuts. He actually started enjoying himself. He even started adding a Few acrobatic moves that he had seen on TV.Late in the afternoon he swung a bit too vigorously, lost his Grip and

�ew clean out of the monkey cage and landed in the lion cage next door. The lion let out a huge roar and our friend in the monkey suit bawled out,

"LAWD GOD, MI DEAD NOW!!". The huge lion immediately

pounced on him, grabbed him by the throat and whispered, Man shut yuh mout, if yuh evah mek mi lose di likkle wuk yuh si !!







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There were three men from the Caribbean living together in London ; a Trinidadian, a Barbadian and a Jamaican who were all starving because they didn't have money to buy food. However, upon coming close to a posh, fancy and very expensive restaurant they came up with a plan. The Trinidadian went in �rst. After being seated he ordered a three course meal with white wine. When he had �nished the meal the waiter came by with the cheque. "But I paid you!" the Trinidadian shouted. The waiter was very confused as he could not remember being paid, but as he did not want to cause any trouble...he let the Trini leave. Five minutes later the Barbadian walked into the restaurant and ordered a �ve course meal with red wine. When he was �nished eating, the waiter came by to collect the money for food. "But I paid you!" The Barbadian shouted. This time the manager came and had to calm down the Bajan, and as he did not want anything to upset the other customers he let the Bajan go. Ten minutes later the Jamaican walked in, sat down, lit a cigarette, and ordered the most expensive meal on the menu plus two Red Stripe beers. After he had �nished, the waiter came to collect the money for the meal and before asking for it, the waiter said, "Sir... I have been having a sort of problem all day and I can't understand it. Other people like you came in earlier and ate and they said that they paid me but I don't remember getting any money from them, so................ But Before he could �nish, the Jamaican chimed in loudly "Hear mi nuh boss, that ah � yu problem...jus gimme mi change!"

Only A Jamaican....






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