IS TIME TO GET M.A.D. NOW, YES TIME TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, DO SOMETHING, MAKE A STATEMENT, TIME TO STAND YUH GROUND AND RAISE YUH VOICE IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE NOTION THAT THIS REGION IS A “ZONE OF PEACE.” THIS ONE IS A RALLY, A GROUNDING, A CONVOIS*, A CALL FOR “PEACE AND LOVE AND COMMUNITY” IN THESE TROUBLED TIMES WE LIVIN IN, AS WE CONSCIOUSLY AND JOYFULLY SEEK TO EXPLORE AND ESTABLISH A GROUNDING OF UNDERSTANDING OF WHO WE ARE AND WHERE WE ARE AND WHY WE ARE HERE AND WHAT WE MAY BE. YES, THIS ONE IS A STERN EXAMINATION OF SELF IN RELATION TO THE OTHERS AROUND US  AND A RECOGNITION OF OUR COMMONALITY IN OUR DIVERSITY AND A CONSCIOUS STRENGTHENING OF COMMUNITY, THROUGH EMPATHY AND UNDERSTANDING OF OUR HISTORY. 

IN THIS MOMENT WE TAKE PAUSE TO REFLECT ON OUR PERPETUAL AND PRESENT CHALLENGE AS SO POIGNANTLY ILLUSTRATED IN THE HAUNTING WORDS OF KING DAVID MICHAEL RUDDER IN HIS SEMINAL WEST INDIAN ANTHEM “RALLY” WHEREIN HE WARNED US OF THE DANGERS AND CHALLENGES WE CURRENTLY FACE WHEN HE SAID 

“SOON WE MUST TAKE A SIDE OR BE LOST IN THE RUBBLE 
IN A DIVIDED WORLD THAT DON'T NEED ISLANDS NO MORE 
ARE WE DOOMED FOREVER TO BE AT SOMEBODY'S MERCY? 
LITTLE KEYS CAN OPEN UP MIGHTY DOORS”.

YES THIS IS A MOMENT IN RECOGNITION OF THE TIES THAT BIND US TOGETHER AS A PEOPLE AND A REGION AND A ZONE. A MOMENT TO CELEBRATE WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE ASPIRE TO BE. AN OPPORTUNITY FOR COLLECTIVE DREAMING AND IDEALISTIC IMAGININGS OF OUR REGION AS A LIVING, VIBRATING “ZONE OF PEACE” BY INVOKING THE POWER OF THE MUSIC TO UNLEASH WE WARRIOR SPIRIT IN DEFENCE OF WHAT WE HOLD DEAR AND BRING DOWN THE POWER TO BRING FORTH THE HEALING ,TO GIVE US THE STRENGTH TO DEAL AND FIND MEANING IN THESE MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD TIMES WE LIVIN’ IN .