The Jamaica Music Museum (JaMM) Grounation series for Reggae Month continues today (February 12) at 2:00 pm with a panel discussion, titled, ‘Fire Burning: Music Governance and Dons’.

The event will take place at the Institute of Jamaica’s auditorium, under the theme ‘Sounds and Society: Sixty years of Music, Political Activism and Social Change’.

Presenters at the event are Quantum Transformational Psychologist, Dr Leahcim Semaj; Professor of Caribbean Political Philosophy, Culture & Aesthetics, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus, Dr. Clinton Hutton; Professor and Socio-Cultural Analyst in the Institute of Caribbean Studies, UWI, Mona Campus, Donna Hope and Executive Director of the Broadcasting Commission, Cordell Green.

The moderator is George Davis, deputy executive editor, Nationwide News Network. The series will continue every Sunday at the same time for the duration of February.

It culminates on February 26 with a panel discussion, titled, ‘Mi Cyaan Believe it: Ambush in the Night’ This is the 11th staging of the event, which is accompanied by an exhibition –‘Auditory and Optic Themes in the Shaping of a Nation’. Exhibits include artefacts, photos, storyboards, and album covers.

Grounation is among the plethora of events being held in February to celebrate Reggae Month.

Herbie Miller, director of JaMM, said the programme will offer insight into Jamaica’s historical journey since 1962 and will examine the country’s triumphs and prosperity and “underscore the social, political and cultural consequences”.

Miller stated that JaMM is seeking to recapture some of the vibes that have been experienced in the past at the series, while noting the absence of the programme over the past two years due to the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic.