An invitation was extended by the Urban Development Corporation to YARD EMPIRE for the YE Youth band to perform at the Corporation’s annual Fireworks on the Waterfront Festival. The Youth shared their talent with thousands of Jamaicans who gathered Down Town Kingston to ring in the New Year. YE Youth were among seasoned performers including [...]
UNESCO Participation Programme "Changing the Score" Performing Arts Intervention Programme to Empower At-Risk-Youth and Ending Gender-Based-Violence for Community Renewal of Parade Gardens YARD EMPIRE embarked on a seven month programme to teach innercity youth to play musical instruments with the end goal of creating a band with the ability to perform at an exemplary level. [...]
After months of training and rehearsals, four boys of YARD EMPIRE YOUTH were rewarded for their hard work at the JCDC Parish finals for Music. YARD EMPIRE has been training the youngsters in the guitar, recorder and drums with a view to exposing them to the performing arts for their personal benefit. YARD EMPIRE has [...]
Inner city youth playing classical music on the recorder How did that happen? It was an idea hatched by Founder of YARD Empire, Iris “Terri” Salmon. Terri Salmon has been using her non government charitable organization to use the arts to effect a positive change in the lives of at risk youth. The vision to [...]
During the period of April 2020 to March 2021, YARD EMPIRE’s programs were affected by the COVID 19 Pandemic. Despite the challenges, YARD EMPIRE felt it was important to carry on the activities observing the established safety guidelines in order to give the targeted youth an outlet to express themselves during a difficult [...]
The YARD EMPIRE community programme based in Downtown Kingston has been training youngsters in the performing arts. A few of the youngsters shared their talent at a staging of Kingston Creatives Art Walk which took placeon Trench Town, Kingston. The occasion is reviewed in the following blog post:https://www.diedreinwanderland.com/trench-town-live-kingston-creative-artwalk/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=whatsapp&utm_source=im
YARD EMPIRE facilitated the painting of a mural on the border walls of the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre. The Jamaica Star published an article on the project, written by Sephanie Lyew: The Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre (RCJCC) was given a facelift on the weekend when the student council body of the Edna [...]
http://www.jamaicatoday.com/rio-cobre-wards-shine-in-second-chance-production/
Words of support for the "sisters" from YARD Empire founder, Terri Salmon.
Iris “Terri” Salmon's Yard Empire in collaboration with veteran playwright David Tulloch on Sunday hosted a special Father’s Day treat which brought out dads from several inner city communities, among others, to watch a theatrical production entitled Wine and Roses. The benefit performance saw several fathers feted with gift baskets provided by Nupak. Many of the fathers were accompanied [...]
