The next edi­tion of the reg­u­lar foun­da­tion reg­gae mu­sic event Root­syardd Dub & Night Mar­ket comes up on Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 21, mark­ing the UN-as­signed In­ter­na­tion­al Day of Peace, al­so known as World Peace Day.

Known for its clas­sic old-school sound sys­tem, Root­syardd—as it is pop­u­lar­ly re­ferred to—has ac­quired a rep­u­ta­tion for the feel-good roots and rock­ers se­lec­tions of Root­syardd res­i­dent se­lec­tor Black Char­i­ot, played strict­ly on vinyl, since its in­cep­tion in May 2018.

Founder Jude Patrick main­tains: “The vi­bra­tion at a Root­syardd event is in­her­ent­ly high. It was al­ways the in­ten­tion to cre­ate a space where, to­geth­er, the mu­sic and the sound could con­nect with peo­ple, pos­i­tive­ly.”

The fall­out from the re­cent un­prece­dent­ed dev­as­ta­tion wrought by Hur­ri­cane Do­ri­an in the Ba­hamas gives this year’s Peace Day theme “Cli­mate Ac­tion for Peace” a par­tic­u­lar res­o­nance and ur­gency.

Ac­cord­ing to the UN web­site, “The (2019) theme draws at­ten­tion to the im­por­tance of com­bat­ting cli­mate change as a way to pro­tect and pro­mote peace through­out the world.

Cli­mate change caus­es clear threats to in­ter­na­tion­al peace and se­cu­ri­ty. Nat­ur­al dis­as­ters dis­place three times as many peo­ple as con­flicts, forc­ing mil­lions to leave their homes and seek safe­ty else­where. The grow­ing ten­sions over re­sources and mass move­ments of peo­ple are af­fect­ing every coun­try on every con­ti­nent.”

Root­syardd has in­vit­ed choco­lati­er and ac­tivist Gillian God­dard to open Sat­ur­day’s event at 6 pm with a short talk ap­ply­ing this theme to the lo­cal en­vi­ron­ment and is­su­ing calls to in­di­vid­ual and col­lec­tive ac­tion.

A 15-minute guid­ed med­i­ta­tion for peace, led by yo­ga in­struc­tor Kate Dal­ton Brown, will fol­low.

Or­gan­is­ers are al­so ex­cit­ed about the move to have this event part­ly so­lar-pow­ered by TT re­new­able en­er­gy and en­er­gy ef­fi­cien­cy com­pa­ny, Ress­cott.

The de­ci­sion to com­mem­o­rate World Peace Day was a no-brain­er for the Root­syardd team. For Patrick, the ques­tion is: why not use a col­lec­tive plat­form to ac­tive­ly pro­mote peace, one of Root­syardd’s very own core val­ues? How could we not sup­port the call to do more on the is­sue of cli­mate change in or­der to pre­serve the peace of our re­gion, es­pe­cial­ly in the face of more nat­ur­al dis­as­ters?

Pa­trons can ex­pect the cus­tom­ary full night mar­ket ex­pe­ri­ence show­cas­ing a mix of prod­ucts and ser­vices from lo­cal cre­ative en­tre­pre­neurs, along­side live art.

Spe­cial­ly in­vit­ed guest ven­dor for this in­stall­ment—the Tur­tle Vil­lage Trust—will en­gage pa­trons on their work in sea-tur­tle con­ser­va­tion and the sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment of coastal com­mu­ni­ties.

Fi­nal­ly, through a col­lab­o­ra­tion with T&T Restau­rant Week to host the lat­ter’s first-ever pop-up restau­rant, fans of Chef G’s pop-up grill and oth­er es­tab­lished Root­syardd food ven­dors Cafe117 and Mehtee will have the bonus of feast­ing on their TT Restau­rant Week spe­cial menus.

The “Peace” edi­tion of Root­syardd Dub & Night Mar­ket takes place this Sat­ur­day at the cor­ner of Nook Av­enue and St Ann’s Road, St Ann’s, from 6 pm till 2 am.

Paid park­ing is avail­able at Chi­nese As­so­ci­a­tion and en­try is $60 be­fore 9 pm.

For more in­for­ma­tion, fol­low @root­syardd on so­cial me­dia plat­forms face­book and In­sta­gram, or call 486-6031.