The Container Project is a community media lab in Palmers Cross, in a 40 foot shipping container in Jamaica.

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July 3
welcome peter, fantastic to have met you and i look forward to working with you. funny ting is leroy brown is my uncle! such a small world. i am in sault ste marie right now and getting settled in so i am ready to begin working on the container p...
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"All those places. All those places. I really wanna know. Money is the barrier" - Leroy Brown "Rastafari Is The Future" - Boom Shaka TORONTO, CANADA - Faith carried me this far. I suppose it's up to me to do the rest. So just to get this introd...
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hi camile thanks 4 fixing the problems 4 me, now my page is looking good jus the way it shood be . by the way did u actually see the woman's picture? did any one else saw it? man it was so embarrassing, i uplaoded this pics thinking that it was me...
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About the Container Project

The Container Project is a community media lab in a 40 foot shipping container in rural Jamaica. It was initiated in 2003 by media artist (h)activist mervin Jarman, who fulfilled his dream of returning to Jamaica to start the Container Project in the community where he grew up. The Container Project has just won the prestigious Stockholm Challenge Award

mervin is a community art activist, interactive multimedia designer, human computer interface expert and core member of the Mongrel Collective. He is a particular kind of mongrel – a new breed of street art-activist emerging in new media and technology.

The Container Project's current initiative is "As We Move", a series of workshops across Jamaica celebrating their 5th anniversary.

Afrofuturist, a group of Canadian artists who use media as a tool for intercultural engagement participated in a residence at the Container's "As We Move" project. The artists traveled to various communities, facilitating workshops in three locations across Jamaica. The three participating artists are: electronic media artist, Jim Ruxton, who facilitated a Second Life workshop which enabled participants to build a virtual Container online to showcase their projects and ideas.
Jennifer LaFontaine and Camille Turner, two Toronto-based media artists facilitated digital storytelling workshops (digital stories are 3-5 min videos the participants made to tell stories from their lives).

Afrofuturist's participation was generously supported by Ontario Arts Council.

Blog Posts

Peter Zed

Wikipedia on Palmer's Cross: "Not Notable"

"All those places. All those places. I really wanna know. Money is the barrier"
- Leroy Brown

TORONTO, CANADA - Faith carried me this far. I suppose it's up to me to do the rest.

So just to get this introduction thing out of the way. I'm a hacker / poet / gardener / builder / journalist. Eventually, I thought I'd get tired of adding all those slashes to my resume. Looks like I was wrong. Count me in as an advocate of The Container Project. Now let's see if i can make some waves.… Continue

Posted by Peter Zed on June 14, 2009 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

camille

Winston’s Second Life

Jim taught Second Life at the Container. I dropped in on a class before we went to Portland. By the time we returned, his students had made amazing progress. Winston is one of the participants in Jim’s Second Life Class.

Here is what Winston had to say about Second LIfe
Second life is a very interesting program. When I first saw it I was amazed. I stuck to second life because I love it and it can be great fun. So far I’ve built the container that we operate from and our toilet. I’… Continue

Posted by camille on August 7, 2008 at 10:30pm

Jim Ruxton

Second Life In Cross

I am back in Toronto after an amazing time at the Container. Thanks to everyone in Palmers Cross who made it such a memorable time. It was sad that we didn't get to have our gala celebration due to the tropical storm. I really enjoyed facilitating the Second Life workshop. Thanks to Ian Murray and Judith Doyle for helping from Toronto so that we would have Second Life space to work in. Everyone taking part in the workshop constructed a building around the container or in one case, Cheryl constru… Continue

Posted by Jim Ruxton on July 22, 2008 at 12:49am — 1 Comment

anna

play

I was greeted with big smiles at the container the first day I arrived. Not long after I sat down, a sweet girl named Winnie asked me to help her get an email address. I was touched to be asked and eager to help. So began my day, as I showed various members of the community how to get an email address and then how to use them. Emails began to fly back and forth between myself, Winnie and Dahlia. Even though we were sitting right next to each other, the novelty of being able to send an email and… Continue

Posted by anna on July 22, 2008 at 12:18am

camille

Flying

The last two weeks flew by. At this moment, I am sitting on a plane heading back to Toronto. Its raining. The whole island is under storm alert. The entire time I was in Jamaica, there was nary drop of precipitation in Palmers Cross but yesterday rivers ran down the streets, the thirsty ground could not hold it all. Unfortunately, our community celebration was planned for last night. I was looking forward to seeing a new video that was created iindependently by some of our students. It was going… Continue

Posted by camille on July 20, 2008 at 3:00pm

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