Our Mission

The Inaugural Louise Bennett-Coverley Festival staged October 15, 2022, was the first of its kind in Jamaica. Canada and parts of the United States, specifically Florida, have an annual Miss Lou festival. Since the Hon. Louise Bennett-Coverley hails from our shores, it is quite appropriate that Jamaica should have its own festival celebrating the legacy of the Hon. Louise Bennett-Coverley.

Rationale

Since the Hon. Louise Bennett-Coverley is being considered as worthy of the nation’s highest honour – being considered for national heroine award – and given her contribution to the promotion of the Jamaican nation language, folklore, theatre such as Pantomime, storytelling and other significant cultural elements, a festival that pays homage to her formidable contribution is well over-due to become annualized. This festival promotes the literary and cultural dynamics that adds to brand Jamaica.

Our Mission

To ensure that the promotion/teaching and performing of Louise Bennett-Coverley’s work is perpetuated in and throughout Jamaica and the Diaspora at both the tertiary and school-age levels.
To encourage more study and scholarship on Louise Bennett-Coverley’s work.
To encourage Jamaicans to actively preserve and respect our cultural heritage through language, storytelling and folklore.
To showcase/share our rich culture with the world.

Donations and beneficiaries

Proceeds from the staging of the Inaugural Louise Bennett-Coverley Festival held in 2022 were contributed to the following causes from March 10-11, 2023...

$100,000 Louise Bennett-Coverley Festival Bursary to a student attending the Edna Manley College School of Drama. • The Hon. Louise Bennett-Coverley Festival Technology Scholarship through registered non-profit Uncommon Arts

Technology capacity-building at the Louise Bennett-Coverley Primary School and the St. Martin de Porres Primary School through the donation of 14 tablet computers to be used for students sitting Grades Four and Six assessment exams.