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A Caribbean Icon on Comedy, Culture and Garvey’s Ghost – Jan 6, 2026 – Originally posted on Jamaicans.com Jamaicans.com recently sat down with cultural icon Owen ‘Blakka’ Ellis, the beloved Jamaican actor, comedian, dub poet, writer and educator whose career has spanned more than four decades. Ellis reflected on his extraordinary journey in the creative…

Where some actors carry their history quietly, Peter Williams wears his across borders. Born in Jamaica and shaped by a life largely lived in Canada, Williams embodies the very tensions Garvey’s Ghost seeks to explore: movement and memory, belonging and displacement, roots that travel and identities that refuse to stay still. “I spent my formative years in…

Morpheus Richards on Crafting Culture Through Garvey’s Ghost Where some artists move between mediums, Richard Walters lives between identities. As an award-winning actor and a recording artist known to many as Morpheus Richards, his creative life is shaped by a dual lens: the storyteller and the sonic architect, the performer and the cultural torch-bearer. Garvey’s…

Official Repost from Jamaicans.com – Denise Lee, Wed, November 26, 2025 The TV series Marcus Garvey’s Ghost has been gaining attention across the Caribbean, Canada, the UK, and communities interested in diaspora stories. Created by filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon, the series blends history, humour, and ancestral storytelling to explore the impact of Marcus Garvey’s ideas across generations. Here…

With Nicholas Okwulu, Founder of Livesey Exchange and PemPeople ORIGINS ­Some people build structures; others build belief. For Nicholas Okwulu, both are part of the same foundation. On London’s Old Kent Road, a place where cranes and communities jostle for space, Okwulu has spent decades creating platforms that belong to the people who live there.…

With Frances-Anne Solomon There’s a point in every artist’s journey where instinct begins to outrun intention. Where you stop trying to prove that what you’re doing makes sense and start trusting that it will find meaning on its own. For Frances-Anne Solomon, that moment has repeated itself across decades, from early theatre productions and BBC…

Don’t Miss the 2025 CineFAM Film Festival This November! CineFAM Film Festival is back for its 9th year, celebrating limitless imagination and daring, original films by Canadian women and non-binary creators of colour! Join us from November 6-8, 2025, at The Hub, 837 Dundas St. W., Toronto, as we journey through this year’s theme: Threads…

Originally Published: Thursday | September 25, 2025 | 12:06 AM Paul H. Williams/Gleaner Writer on Jamaica Gleaner RENOWNED JAMAICAN actor Owen ‘Blaka’ Ellis plays the ‘ghost’ of National Hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey in a six-episode CaribbeanTales-TV original series titled Garvey’s Ghost, created and executive produced by award-winning filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon, who told The Gleaner, “The…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Toronto, Ontario, Sept 23, 2025 Frances-Anne Solomon Announces Season 2 of Garvey’s Ghost PLUS Season 1 Global Screenings Alert! Following the breakout success of its debut season, the award-winning web and TV series Garvey’s Ghost is set to return for a highly anticipated second season just in time for February 2026. Season 1 had…

WHAT A JOURNEY – THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING! Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 20th anniversary of the CaribbeanTales International Film Festival — from our incredible filmmakers, to our dedicated volunteers, partners, and of course, our amazing audiences who showed up with so much love and energy.This milestone year was a true celebration of…