Our Current Projects
Our Current Projects
Our Current Projects
In its second year, CATAPULT II aims to provide financial support to 300 artists across the Caribbean through relief grants worth $500 USD. Applicants will also get the opportunity to be showcased in the Kingston Creative Database; an open directory that the public can access to find, hire and easily partner with creatives for international and local projects.
Artwalk & Market Street
On the last Sunday of the month, Kingston Creative hosts an open air Street festival called the Artwalk. It started in April 2018 and is a free public arts event that showcases artistic and cultural talent in Jamaica. Hundreds of dancers, musicians, visual artists, poets, writers, have participated in genre specific months, engaging audiences with a wide range of presentations and performances.
Paint The City
Paint the City is a public-private-third sector partnership funded by TEF, Sherwin Williams, the KSAMC and other organizations. The primary goal is to transform Downtown Kingston into a city tourism destination using art, culture and technology. The innovation in the project is through the use of augmented and virtual reality, which create an immersive experience for the visitor and also for those who visit virtually or take the virtual tours online.
Meetup
The Kingston Creative Meetups are monthly networking events designed to connect creatives, techies, building owners, investors and project owners. The objective is networking, collaboration, the identification of common challenges across industries and ultimately growth of the creative ecosystem. The Meetup events covered the following topics, Design, Heritage, Dance, Music, Theatre, the Environment and Visual Art.
Podcast
The Kingston Creative podcast is a monthly discussion about artists to watch and cultural trends in Kingston. This podcast, launched in February 2020, serves as an outlet to express the impact of the city of Kingston to the Caribbean and the diaspora and highlight the creatives that make this possible. On a typical episode hosts Isis and Odessa discuss current affairs in Kingston and have a discussion with a creative making a mark in their industry over the course of an hour.
Training
Kingston Creative has provided over 4,000 training opportunities in the past year through programmes like:
- Sagicor Digital Creative Training,
- CATAPULT Digital Creative Training
- Lunch & Learns at the Creative Hub
- 50 EU Cultural Trainers.
