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NLS Interview Firstly, huge thanks to the NLS team for including us in the research and in the podcast. We always appreciate the opportunity to get the word out, to tell the story of what we are doing ...and more importantly, why we are doing it. The Downtown question allows for a discussion of Downtown's past, present and future place in the narrative of Jamaica's creative achievements and we hope that these responses can shed some light on what Kingston Creative hopes to achieve.

Kingston’, workshop where using the wonderfully provocative photographs of Donnette Ingrid Zacca, one of Jamaica’s most prominent photographers, we dived into the art and craft of story creation. The images provided characters and settings and writers fabricated from these, backstories and plots. Over four hours, they produced some compelling work full of the contradictions that are a part of everyday life in our capital city. My overall aim was to help improve the competencies and confidence of writers by guiding them through a process that was fun, interactive and cooperative. Mission accomplished, I believe. All participants created memorable characters with interesting stories, one of which was clearly morphing into a screen play for a short movie.