A 95km drive from the island's second largest city Montego Bay or 150km west from the capital Kingston brings you to Treasure Beach, a small fishing town in the parish of St Elizabeth that illuminates Jamaica's colourful communities and varied past.
It's the same boring song, sung time and again – those who don't "game" viewing the whole straddling-the-globe-like-a-colossus industry and its symbiotic, fantastically colourful communities as some kind of joke; Hungry Hippos with motion control, Laserquest with a bunch of faceless scumbags screaming obscenities down a headset at squad-mates.
The most populous of the group (more than 10,000 people call the 180sqkm landmass home), its tree-fringed country lanes connect colourful wood-built communities and more than enough attractions for a lazy long weekend.
Les Berges de Seine covers the quay of the Left bank between bridges Pont Alexandre III and Pont du Carrousel The tight-knit community and colourful houses give a village feel to this southern neighbourhood in the 13th arrondissement.
These companies are much more like the smaller theatre companies - risk taking, diverse, more colourful, fleet of foot, community based, accessible and excellent in performance.
One practitioner gave a colourful description of disadvantaged communities that they had worked in – "streets are barren, there aren't people walking in the streets … youth walk around in gangs, so mums won't let [children] walk, … houses are poorly kept … gardens overgrown … lounges on the front veranda".
Public buses, private taxicabs and trishaws will carry messages on key family and community practices through colourful, attractive printed panels on the vehicles.
The programme, aimed at children aged six and under and filmed mostly in Tobermory on the Isle of Mull, featured a seaside community of extrovert and colourful characters.
Little India is a colourful district with a predominantly Indian community.
Bethesda Art Centre runs art workshops and sells wonderful quilts that are made by the local community and decorated with colourful Karoo characters and stories.
