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SUMMERJAM Festival supports HELP Jamaica! by raising funds once more
// June 8th, 2011 // No Comments » // News
Following the successful collaboration at last year’s event the popular Summerjam festival is supporting HELP Jamaica! once again in 2011.
The biggest European reggae festival taking place in Cologne, Germany on July 1st - 3rd will be fundraising for the good cause.
Everybody on the guestlist for the event is requested to pay a donation of 5,- EUR going directly to HELP Jamaica!.
In 2011 the event will be hosting performances by Jimmy Cliff, Alpha Blondy, Barrington Levy, Ziggy Marley, Busy Signal and many many more on the two huge open air stages on the island.
Check the Summerjam website for more information on the event and this year’s line-up with top live artists as well as the best sound systems and get your ticket before its sold out.
Big Up Contour Music the promoters of the SummerJam Festival for the continous support!
The REGGAE JAM Festival – continuos generous support in 2011!
// May 24th, 2011 // 3 Comments » // News
The HELP Jamaica! team is very proud and grateful to announce the continuous support of the Reggae Jam festival, its promoter Sheriff and his team in 2011.
The event taking place in Bersenbrueck, Germany from August 5th to 7th will donate 5000,- EUR right after the festival – just like they did last year! Additionally the ‘Best Festival’ voted by the readers of Riddim magazine yet again in 2011 is supporting HELP Jamaica! in our public relation efforts and facilitates to have an information tent at the best spot possible right on the festival ground. All visitors and reggae fans feel free to get in touch with our team on-site. At our yellow booth we’re happy to inform you about the opening of our first HELP Jamaica! Education Center in Cassava Piece in Kingston with lots of pictures and videos.
Moreover thanks to the close collaboration, Reggae Jam and Sheriff make it possible for us to collect the deposit cups at our booth as well as on the festival ground. All revenues of the collected and of course also donated cups serve the good of the Education Center as well as the festival’s generous contribution.
So look out for our collection bins on the site – donating was never this easy!
For more information on the Reggae Jam festival check out the great line-up for this year’s staging. Get your ticket before they’re sold out and make sure you don’t miss this exceptional festival full of vibes – always a weekend to remember.
Video of the Reggae Jam and HELP Jamaica! cooperation in 2010
Big up Nippes Yard Production for the video.
June 4th 2011 – Charity Party in Osnabrueck, GER
// May 23rd, 2011 // No Comments » // News
The 2009 graduating class at the Graf Stauffenberg Gymnasium in Osnabrueck is organizing a charity event in support of HELP Jamaica!
They will donate not only the proceeds of this event but also the money that remained from their graduating class back in 2009. Big Up, Inga Gebel and her organizing team, all the performing bands and soundsystems as well as the whole graduating class from 2009 for the support! www.gsg2009.de
The Actions-No-Words organization just donated 1.215,-€
// May 17th, 2011 // No Comments » // News
The HELP Jamaica! team would like to express its gratitude for the continued generous support. The Actions-No-Words Charity Project is supporting HELP Jamaica! from scratch!
This time it was the sold out 5th anniversary celebration at club YAAM in Berlin, where we had the opportunity to have an info booth. Half the proceeds of the event were donated to HELP Jamaica! – we just received 1.215,- €!! (The other half was donated to: ‘Ärzte für die Dritte Welt’ in Kenya.)
Big up to Dr. VolkanikMan, the mastermind behind the Actions-No-Words Charity Project, the artists who performed that night (check the flyer), all helping hands in the background who made it possible and last but not least the Berlin massive that turned up to support the good cause! Yuh large!!
Manifesto & HELP Jamaica! team up in Cassava Piece
// May 11th, 2011 // No Comments » // News
HELP Jamaica! is proud to announce a new cooperation with Manifesto Jamaica! We are looking forward to cooperate with the young, energetic and ambitious group with which we share the aim to empower the youth by encouraging and promoting their talents!
Peter Wright, one of the Manifesto core members, writes about the cooperation:
As an organization that seeks to empower the youth through art, Manifesto|Jamaica is extremely pleased to see the HELP Jamaica! Library in Cassava Piece. We were blessed with the opportunity to participate in the day’s activities on one Saturday and we thoroughly enjoyed our interaction with the children from the community. We intend to return very soon and assist in formalizing some classes*. We hope that this is will be the beginning of a fruitful mutually beneficial relationship through which we will educate, expose and empower the youth in the community and, by extension, the wider nation. Our organization has definitely become a powerful grassroots movement in recent times and we are proud to be associated with HELP Jamaica, another organization with similar goals and also a similar soul.
Text by: Peter ‘Five Steez’ Wright, Advocacy Champion, Literary Art Umbrella member, Manifesto|Jamaica
*Notice: The Manifesto team is now coming every second Saturday of the month to our Center in Cassava Piece and supports our activities as well as implementing on courses. Great input and teamwork – Big Up Manifesto to the fullest!
check out Manifesto @ www.manifestojamaica.com
Some pictures from the Manifesto team taken at the HELP Jamaica! Education Center
Fashion and style – by Jaqueen ‘The HELP Jamaica! Charity Shirt’
// May 6th, 2011 // 1 Comment » // News
Check out this nice and cozy top for ladies representing the Jamaican colors in a very beautiful but same time decent style. This top will be soon one of your favorite garments for summer 2011 with its unique look and style admiring glances in the streets are guaranteed.
These handmade and customized items (send with a HELP Jamaica! Button) are produced and sold by our long time supporter and very good friend JAQUEEN Fashion from Berlin. She generously donates 30% of all proceeds of this ‘HELP Jamaica! Charity Shirt’ directly to HELP Jamaica! BIG UP!
HELP Jamaica! Shirt JAQUEEN online store
All day fundraising event in Brighton, UK
// May 3rd, 2011 // 2 Comments » // News
Big up SensiSounds for organizing this huge charity event in the UK – bringing you fresh sounds and strong vibes in the shape of an all day party in aid of HELP Jamaica!
Saturday May 14th at The Hydrant, Brighton /UK
Music will be running from 3pm all afternoon and into the early hours, this one’s set to be live!
ALL profits are going to be donated to HELP Jamaica!, so if you live in the Brighton area, make sure you don’t miss this exceptional event and party for a good cause with your friends.
DAYTIME PARTY + CARIBBEAN BBQ 3PM – 8PM
(Downstairs, inside and out, FREE ENTRY!)
Live: Milli Moonstone (Acoustic / Folk), Lisa Kenny (Acoustic / Blues / French Pop), Obsidion (Acoustic / Soul), DJ Stavros (Dub / Reggae)
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NIGHTTIME PARTY 8PM – 3AM
(Upstairs, £4 OTD / £3 NUS)
Live: Samsara (Reggae, Ska), The Drop (Dub / Reggae / Roots / Rock)
DJ’S: Gerra B2B, Rocksteddy, Stone (Reggae / Rocksteady / Dub / Dubstep / Jungle)
Charity Dance in Glarus, Switzerland – what a success!!
// May 2nd, 2011 // No Comments » // News
On Saturday April the 23rd the Lifted Selection Sound from Glarus, a very small town in the heart of the swiss alps promoted a charity event for HELP Jamaica!
The fundraising event started with a great organized info event in the afternoon where our 2nd chairman Hilmar Keding first held a lecture about HELP Jamaica!, its activities, projects and aims in front of approx. 30 people as well as the the local press (TV and Newspapers) and afterwards answered all the questions that came up from the audience and gave interviews to the media.
The Party afterwards was pure niceness an also a full success!
Many people donated twice, by paying their entrance fee (there was no guestlist that night) and by putting money in the collecting boxes additionaly. Big Up!
Here are some pics of the event:
Many thanks to the Lifted Selection Sound, Island Selecta, Kebilli & Papa Irie Sound as well as our chairman a.k.a Selecta Hille (SoundQuake Sound) for the musical entertainment, the club (Hölastei), the sponsors and all the helping hands in the background and last but not least all the party people who came out in large numbers and partied until the very last tune – for making the charity event a success we never dreamed of:
The Party did fundraise unbelievable 2803, 53 EUR for HELP Jamaica! Wow!!
A special big up goes out to T-Bone an artist from Switzerland, who made this video just to promote the charity event and the aims of HELP Jamaica! – without the support of all those dedicated people, this would not have been possible!
The HELP Jamaica Team would like to express their heartfelt gratitude for the great organization and the generous support. That was an event to remember – Big Up Glarus ‘yuh likkle but yuh tallawah’ !
Check out a TV review about the charity dance in the local swiss TV News
VIDEO: Short documentation of the Opening Ceremony
// March 16th, 2011 // No Comments » // News
Check this short documentation (12 min.) with footage taken at our Opening Ceremony and during the last days before at the HELP Jamaica! Education Center and inside the community of Cassava Piece!
Big Up Markus Hautmann, Annita Boomgaarden and the whole REGGAEVILLE Team for filming, cutting and providing this nice video!
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