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Out of all the organic matter on our planet I would like to be a tree. Trees grow deep and high at the same time. They can be the tallest, heaviest and mightiest of all. They can live the longest, existing for over thousands of years. They keep the soil from slipping away, they protect from heavy winds, their raw materials have many applications, and they give us rain and provide homes for animals, insects, birds and humans alike. They provide food, medicine, bring healing and give us life by providing oxygen. They never retaliate when we do them evil. They are always patient making the best of their place of birth.

Why can’t I take on the qualities of a tree? Consider this, they live so long and do all they do this because they use less energy. While we can’t stay stable long enough to get the…

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Season 4 Ity and Fancy Cat Show

Season 4 of the Ity and Fancy Cat Show is scheduled and ready to begin, on Sunday July 10,at 9PM.

The belly full of laughs is guaranteed to continue. But a word of warning, before you decide to sit down, and grab a few laughs to help you face Monday morning. Empty your bladder! Kin teeth caan dun!

Blakka Ellis was reported as saying at the launch, held at the Fiction Lounge , that the madness will continue. And after seeing the filming of the first show I would say he is right on target! The regulars are back! The hilarious Karen “Tandeh deh” Grant, Iceman and Micheal Abrahams, will be accented by the likes of Simon Crossgill, Deon Silvera, or maybe even Dancehall artiste Assassin (fingers crossed). Personally I think anything Simon says will be hilarious. Two puppets have also been added to the show, giving us even more variety.

And of course how can you have a new season without a new set. I wish I could show you the pictures….but I think your just gonna have to wait! Scheed Props and More, has again been given the pleasurable honour of creating this new set, in partnership with Grizzlies. I will not even describe it, but just say, you’ll want to see it for the whole season.

I look forward to seeing what the Ity and Fancy Cat Show do with our honorables: the Prime Minister, Ms. Lightbourn, Dwight Nelson’s “I don’t recall” and KD Knight’s “pathologically mendacious” at the Mannat enquiry, or poor Buju. And lets not forget the viral Clifton Brown’s “Nobody Canna Cross It”. The lyrics for this “song” can now be accessed online!

Jamaican comedy has never been this creative! And I await Season 4 of the Ity and Fancy Cat Show, with eager excitement!

BattleArt Competition – Easel to Easel

One note of correction on this article, the location of the event will be YWCA and not the YMCA as stated here. The YWCA is on 51 Arnold Rd Kingston 5 Jamaica of South Camp Rd.

Art clash! Painters go easel to easel at YMCA

Mel Cooke, Sunday Gleaner Writer

Sunday June 26, 2011

Scheed At Work

First there was singing and deejaying, then cracking jokes, dance and fashion.  Now the competitive format which has made steady gains in the performing arts comes to the fine arts with Battleart, a one-day competition among young painters which takes place at the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Kingston on Hope Road, St Andrew, on July 30.

It is the first in a series of such competitions, each of which will entail a different aspect of the arts.

Scheed Cole of Scheed International, which is organising Battleart, said: “It is a challenge, a competitive challenge.” He hopes to attract entrants from the secondary-school system, to which letters will be sent inviting participation by students in their final year.

Fifteen contestants will be selected, based on the portfolios submitted, which five judges – including Cole – will assess. Then, on the ‘Battleart’ day, the contestants will be whittled down to five, from which the top three will be selected.

First prize is $15,000; the first runner-up gets $10,000; and a painting set will be presented to the second runner-up. However, there is the prospect of employment, as Cole said “a main reason for this is to find persons who can get jobs”.

As the battling artists will be required to do complete work in two-hour spells, The Sunday Gleaner asked if this would compromise quality. Cole said it would not, as “we are not going to give them a lot of things to paint. Whatever is required of them can be done in that particular time”. Plus, he said, working quickly is important as “you want to increase quality and efficiency at the same time”.

The day’s format is two two-hour challenges, the first to paint geometric objects and the second to paint organic forms. “We are testing their ability to do realism,” Cole said.

In addition to watching the artists at work, the audience will be treated to a Capoeira demonstration as well as have the opportunity to get their portraits done and get involved with fruit sculpting. Also, Cole said, there will be a mural board on which anyone can paint.

Battleart does not stop with the painters. “This is the first of many. We are going to go through poetry, drama, music, you name it,” he said. “For one competition we will select a wall in a particular community and people will do murals. We have no sponsorship and the budget is small, but we are stretching it.”

And he puts Battleart in the context of avoiding a more literal battle. “It takes the negative energy out and puts it in a creative form. It leaves you devoid of anger and it creates employment as well,” Cole said.

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Hot Suh! Whats Your Approach?

Yes we are an Arts based company, and I guess this is not the topic you would expect on our blog, but hey Art is life, and visa versa. And Art is a constant dynamic with the reality we live in and our expression of it.

Any Jamaican woman will tell you horror stories of how men approached them and instead of making them feel attractive ended up making them feel like they had been violated. Phrases like “stiff breast”, “me woulda waan fi breed yuh” and “fat pum pum”, are the worst I have heard personally. But men have gone as far as to say what they would do with these parts of the female body if given the chance. And there are the really really dumb ones that regurgitate pick up lines.

Some women go through heart stopping trepidation at the thought of having to pass a group of men, even worst a construction site. Other women, know exactly where to tell a man to stick his thingy, and don’t fret. Actually I think a Jamaican man appreciates a woman who is able to trade words with him. Keeps it interesting for him, ignore them and instead of hearing him strip you naked, you’ll hear a barrage of other obscenities.

Well it got me thinking. Why do men “look” women in Jamaica? A man could be happily married to his wife at home,the mother of his loving children, he has no desire to cheat on her but he is compelled, when he passes a woman he thinks is attractive, to verbally highlight those features he deems her assets and worthy of commendation.

I have therefore come to the conclusion that it’s not about the woman. You could be the all dolled up in the latest, your skin firm and smooth and your face cute. It’s all about the man. The man feels better about himself for having, “looked” the woman. Again down to the animalistic barbarian hunt. And the chase begins, like a cat who plays with his meal. Jamaican men are born  thinking there is no woman alive who would resist them. “Lots of fish in the sea” and the women make it so easy for them.

Folks I know not all Jamaican men are like this. We have beautiful Jamaican men, not the self loving, ganja smoking, street walking, badwud cussing, all night clubbing, skirt chasing, woman beating, unfaithful lying men. But good men. Women lets pray they are not so few that we have to share them.

All images from Scheed Collections, now available.

Green Expo 2011

It was Friday June 10 to Sunday June 12 2011

We hope you were at the Expo held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel to see the many fantastic booths, and especially the Urban Development Corporation  (UDC) booth done by us.

Not only was our team of ninjas on a short schedule to create this 10’’X20’’X 8’’ booth in four days, but they only had a sketch of an idea to work with. From concept to construction the team assembled, ready to complete the task, their sole mission to AMAZE.

 

“It took four days and nights, I got no sleep but, we just knew it was something we had to do”, says Rhoan McConnell project manager. “…there was constant evaluation, determining what to scale down and what to embellish.”

 

The design was a multisensory experience, displaying four biosphere from the swampy but arid deserts to lush forested regions of Jamaica, from waterfall to rivers, to the sea. When visitors went to the booth they felt hot in the desert, and cool by the wet forest, they could touch the animal life and the plant life. To create this environment, with some props being made from scratch on short notice, also meant much of the backdrop had to be painted.

 

“We did not have enough time to print, fortunately, which made us stand out”. McConnell further explains that the UDC booth was probably the only booth that did not have a printed backdrop of some mountain top or forested region, making it unique to all who viewed it.

 

Aside from Props and More, this year’s Green Expo was dubbed “the best Green Expo yet”. The entrance was excellently done by Stephen Jones Landscaping, a formidable landscaping company.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To all the Props and More Team Members who worked on this project we salute You!

Oooonu Maaaad!

Gleaner Interview with Scheed

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Gleaner Inna de Yard Interview with Scheed.