FLEET STREET
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Located on the Parade Garden street, this is a good address for street art lovers in Kingston.
If Fleet Street, located in Parade Garden, is not a tourist area, it is however home to a breeding ground of artworks that street art lovers will not want to miss under any circumstances. At the origin of this artistic and community project: Paint Jamaica, initiated in 2014 by a handful of local artists and a French traveler who fell in love with Kingston. The idea was to revolutionize the art-talent-society relationship, with a stated desire to curb the city's bad reputation by making good use of this abandoned warehouse in the neighborhood. Fleet Street has thus become the symbol of this popular neighborhood nicknamed South Side, where daily life is difficult. It is therefore natural that here, at number 41, the walls and facades of the houses are the expression of talents, hope for better days and Jamaican culture as a whole, sending messages mainly to the youth. The result of this collaborative work? Shimmering colors, different themes, values of sharing, respect and righteousness that take shape through these sumptuous and captivating works of art. Magnificent.
Life Yard, the Rasta youth cooperative that gives rhythm to the life of the neighborhood with its educational initiatives, will be your intermediary, and the guides of the Jamaica Cultural Enterprises, your pass; because you don't come to Fleet Street without being accompanied by someone from the community. A stop at the restaurant of the same name, Life Yard, is inevitable, a sincere Jamaican experience.