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Friday, 2003 February 21

Participants attend events according to their interest.

Open All Day Mico Teacher's College Facilities
Inafca Museum
Booths (Food, Drinks, Books, etc.)
Festival of the Bickles

8:30 - 9:00 Registration

9:00 - 10:00 Lectures

Miguna-Miguna, Reflections from the Middle Passage: A Contemporary Afrikan Perspective
Prof. Rupert Lewis, The Challenge of PanAfricanism in the early 21st Century.

10:30 - 11:00 Pottery, Phillip Supersad

11:00 - 12:00 Lectures

Dr. Clinton Hutton, All I Have is Redemption song
Prof. Carolyn Cooper, Write it Dung Inna Yu Remembrance: Living the Legacy of Paul Bogle Today

12:00 - 1:00 Art Exhibition Open - Opening by Dr. David Boxer

1:00 - 4:30 Poetry Corner

Poets: Mbala from Aquaba, Cleon Coolding (Ras Jaja), Nabby Natural, Samuel Gordon, Ku-Soonogo, Neto Meeks, Dingo

Drummers: Aquaba

2:00 - 3:00 Lectures

Mrs. Kay Anderson, Ancestral Whispering - African Retentions in Jamaican Art

Mr. Cecil Gutzmore, Walter Rodney – Heritage and Present

4:30 - 5:00 Book Launching

With the Sound of the Stream Korchie, Mr. Leonard Ruddock
- Opening Remarks, Prof. Patrick Bryan

5:00 - 7:00 Concert
Artists: Ibo Cooper, Abija, Marcus I