Irie Caribbean Celebration

'Fire Burn Babylon' follows the fortunes of a crew of Caribbean Rastafarians who resettle in London after a volcanic eruption devastates their island home. Abandoning lives in spiritual retreat in the foothills of Montserrat, three Rasta men transform their beliefs and reinvent themselves as 'rude-boy' rappers and small time hustlers on the East End nightclub circuit. 'Fire Burn Babylon' is an inquiry into the transformations of culture and place. UK/Monsterrat, Sat. April 3, 12noon, African Heritage Cultural Arts Center 6161 NW 22nd Avenue Miami, FL 33142

Introduced by legendary actor, Sidney Poitier, ARTISTS OF THE BAHAMAS explores the lives & artistic works of the seminal visual artists in the Bahamian Islands. They display their process by painting, sculpting & creating installations, sharing their history through on-site interviews, still photographs & Junkanoo, the great African/Bahamian Festival that rivals both New Orleans’s Mardi Gras & Brazil’s Carnival. Bahamas, Sat. April 3, 12noon, African Heritage Cultural Arts Center 6161 NW 22nd Avenue Miami, FL 33142

The Caribbean is the region most economically dependent on tourism and Jamaica is the 4th most indebted country in the world. Tourism is Jamaica's Sacred Cow, heavily promoted since 1891 as the way to modernization and prosperity it has tragically failed in its promises. Jamaica For Sale counters the dominant view that tourism is the savior of the Jamaican people. Lively and hard hitting, with powerful voices, arresting visuals and iconic music, Jamaica For Sale documents the environmental, economic, social and cultural impacts of unsustainable tourism development. Jamaica, Sat. April 3, 3pm, African Heritage Cultural Arts Center 6161 NW 22nd Avenue Miami, FL 33142

Orphaned seven-year old Marysol dreams of playing a shepherdess in the Nativity play at school, and although her Grandma tries to keep her hopes high, the inexorable reality of the AIDS diagnosis makes Marysol search for closure as she accepts that her time is running out. Puerto Rico, Sat. April 3, 5:30pm, African Heritage Cultural Arts Center 6161 NW 22nd Avenue Miami, FL 33142

Told through the lives of five compelling Haitian women, Poto Mitan gives an inside perspective on globalization, Haiti's current crisis, and the resilient women challenging this system. Puerto Rico, Sat. April 3, 5:30pm, African Heritage Cultural Arts Center 6161 NW 22nd Avenue Miami, FL 33142

The film is about the fastest woman in the world- a 2008 Olympic gold medal winning, twenty-one year old from a volatile neighborhood in Kingston, Jamaica - and the girls she inspires- like Janieve Russell, a vibrant high-jumping teenager from a rural community. The film explores the sudden emergence of Jamaicans as the fastest Olympic sprinters and follows these two young women as they run for their lives to put their country on the map. Jamaica, Sat. April 3, 8pm, African Heritage Cultural Arts Center 6161 NW 22nd Avenue Miami, FL 33142

Shots ring out one winter night and a bullet meant for a local street dealer kills a ten-year-old boy. In the downtown Toronto community of Parkdale, grief and suspicion hang heavily in the air, while the nightly patrons at Miss G’s Caribbean Take Away resume their ritual of beer and banter. But one of them, Gene Wright, cannot go on. He begs his friends for help. In a most unusual development, six Black men make a pact to form a support group in hopes of salvaging their broken spirits and redeeming their besieged community. Trinidad/Canada, Sat. April 3, 8pm, African Heritage Cultural Arts Center 6161 NW 22nd Avenue Miami, FL 33142



