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Granny Nanny Maroon Culture Yawd Project, Jamaica

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Who we are
Greetings and blessings. We are the Granny Nanny Cultural Group, a traditional Jamaican Maroon performing arts ensemble, which consists of community-based artists, musicians, drummers, storytellers, craftspeople and herbal healers from the Windward Maroon capital and UNESCO World Heritage Site of Moore Town and the larger Rio Grande Valley. In 2016, we toured the eastern United States, sharing our Maroon music, arts and culture at educational and cultural institutions in four states as well as Washington, D.C. We also appear in the 2015 documentary-film Queen Nanny: Legendary Maroon Chieftainess, about our founding ancestress and Jamaica’s only National Heroine, Queen Nanny of the Maroons. The documentary is used by UNESCO in their International Decade for People of African Descent activities. Our 2016 debut musical project is an MP3 album/double-CD titled, Granny Nanny Come Oh: Jamaican Maroon Kromanti and Kumina Music and Other Oral Traditions, which was recorded live at the Jamaica Music Institute (JaMIN) Recording Studio and Certification Laboratory in Trench Town, Jamaica. We also perform and share our cultural at public, educational and community events and venues across Jamaica.

Please help us complete our cultural space in our community
We are kindly asking for your support to help us complete The Granny Nanny Maroon Culture Yawd, which will be a mixed-use space designed to help us preserve Maroon culture and contribute to capacity building around these five areas: (1) Live Cultural Edutainment; (2) Arts & Craft Creation & Merchandising; (3) Education & Skills Training Workshops; (4) Jerk Pit & Herbal Center; and (5) an Information Clearinghouse. These activities in this cultural venue will benefit the wider Maroon community of visual, literary and performing artists within our UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Rio Grande Valley, Portland parish, Jamaica. It will also allow us to be able to create, maintain and share our cultural arts with the wider world, as we welcome visitors from all walks of life.

What the funds will be used for
We seek to purchase items to be shipped to Jamaica for our cultural space, including Canopy Tents & Tarpaulins; Video Projection Equipment; Computers, Tablets and Peripheral Devices; Music/Sound Equipment; Arts & Craft Tools; and T-Shirt Printing Equipment. We have already received about one third of the target amount from generous donors and charitable organizations, and we are kindly asking for your help in getting over the finish line.

When we need the funds
With your kind support, we hope to complete the construction of The Granny Nanny Maroon Culture Yawd by December 15, 2019, when it will be open to the Maroon community and the general public.

Our gratitude to you
Our sincerest thanks to all those who have supported The Granny Nanny Cultural Group over the years, and thanks to those of you who will support this endeavor now. We are truly grateful for your kind assistance in helping us continue the legacy bequeathed to us by our great ancestress, Queen Nanny of the Maroons. We hope that you will not only support us, but also visit the space in December and beyond.

Medase me adamfo ("Thank you, my friend")
Ms. Annette Aarons and Mr. Anthony Ireland, Spokespeople
The Granny Nanny Cultural Group
Moore Town, Portland Parish, Jamaica



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  • Darvis White
    • $20
    • 5 yrs
  • John Favini, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology
    • $1,000 (Offline)
    • 5 yrs
  • Tracey Mia Stewart, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Music
    • $1,000 (Offline)
    • 5 yrs
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Harcourt Fuller
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Decatur, GA

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