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Nova Southeastern University Welcomes The Olive Lewin Heritage Foundation Program
Former Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Seaga, and the South Florida Caribbean Chorale.
Nova Southeastern University was the host venue for the inaugural Olive Lewin Heritage Foundation program held in the Steele Auditorium at NSU’s Health Professions Division.
More than 320 people attended and enjoyed the songs, dances, stories, videos, and scholarly explorations of Jamaica and its contributions to world culture. This public event was collaboration between the Olive Lewin Heritage Foundation and the Caribbean Law Programs at the NSU Shepard Broad Law Center.
An informative panel discussion highlighted this lively event. The distinguished panelists included the Right Honorable Edward Seaga, prime minister of Jamaica from 1980-1989, James Early, director of Cultural Studies and Communication at the Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., Major Johanna Lewin (retired), daughter of Lewin, and Steve Higgins, founder and musical director of the South Florida Caribbean Chorale and former member of Olive Lewin’s internationally acclaimed Jamaican Folk Singers.
Born in Vere, in Clarendon, Jamaica, Lewin was a social anthropologist, musicologist and teacher who popularized and promoted Jamaican culture on an international level, and who created the Jamaican Memory Bank, an oral history and compilation of Jamaican folklore and music. According to His Excellency Seaga, “much of Jamaica’s treasure of folk music and oral traditions would have remained unknown was it not for the late Olive Lewin.”
Read more about the event and the life of this extraordinary woman at ‘Olive Lewin Heritage Foundation – brings JA culture and heritage to the Jamican Diaspora’.
