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Canadian debut at Toronto’s Royal Cinema By Stephen Weir It took four years and a worldwide Kickstarter project for the Jamaica Dance Hall documentary Bruk Out to Break Out in Toronto. On Friday night the movie was given its Canadian premiere to a wildly cheering audience at the downtown Royal Cinema. The Caribbean Camera Bruk Out – starts with the real thing. Men and women dancing in the streets and steamy dance halls of Kingston, Jamaica with reckless abandon.   Men and women flaunt their sexuality, on the dance floor, in the streets of Kingston and even on the hoods of slow moving cars.   Wining? That is too tame for Dance Hall – this is where the term daggering was born. The camera rolls with a clubber’s point of view of the hot hot dancing, while notable dancehall artists including Beenie Man and Elephant Man explain how the music and dancing feed off each other. The 69-minute movie moves from the ghetto to America, Poland and Spain, f...

Caribbean Vibration TV Alain Arthur 14-years on TV By Stephen Weir for the Caribbean Camera Alain Arthur covers Toronto's Caribbean Tales Film Fete Every Saturday afternoon for the past 14-years Alain Arthur has been warmly welcomed into hundreds of thousands of households across Canada. He never gets old, he never gets fat (although wonder where that hair went anyway?) and he always has positive, fun stories to tell us about Caribbean Canadian culture. Not seen the show? This Saturday at 5.30 pm. Omni TV will be airing the best travel stories of 2017 with visits to Trinidad, St Vincent, Dominica, Barbados and the Bahamas.   On the last Saturday of the year Omni will be airing   the best   Caribbean Vibration 2017 celebrity interviews, including up close and personal chats with Machel Montana, PJ Puffy and many other Soca stars. Caribbean Vibration TV for this year. The show has a huge following not just on the Omni network, where each episode is aired...