VIDEO: A Tour of Kingston Creative in Downtown Kingston, Jamaica | Jamaicans.com
Posted on November 21, 2020
Join us as Andrea Dempster Chung, Executive Director, takes us on a tour Kingston Creative, an Art District and Creative Hub in Downtown Kingston!
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The Biztech Summit & Knowledge Forum will be held from November 17-19, 2020 in Kingston Jamaica, and for the first time, the Jamaica Computer Society will partner with arts non-profit Kingston Creative to take a look at Technology and the Cultural and Creative Industries. Kingston Creative recently opened the first Creative Hub in partnership with the Hub Coworking, with a podcast studio, offices meeting rooms, training and equipment for creative entrepreneurs and content creators.
Two-Part Mural Adds Colour And Inspiration To Scotiabank Spaces | The Gleaner
Posted on November 1, 2020
A two-part mural encapsulating the influence of Jamaica’s African ancestral roots and an inspiring tribute to children is adding a pop of colour and inspiration to the Scotiabank Building Society property located at 95 Harbour Street in downtown Kingston.
Only a few steps away from the bank’s Duke Street headquarters, Scotiabank, a corporate partner of the ‘Paint the City’ project, continues to support the development of downtown Kingston. The street art was commissioned...
Meetup: Preserving Jamaican Heritage In a Digital Age
October 23, 2020
Posted on October 22, 2020
The Meetup will be a double feature. A collaborative feature , between Kingston Creative and the Jamaica Observer for Design Week 2020, on the Artisan Collective will take place between 4pm to 5pm.
The Meetup, as usual will take place between 6pm - 8pm with panelists Travis Graham, Simone Harris, Mrs. Desaray Pivott-Nolan, and Mrs. Janielle Wilson-Rowe.
Kingston Creative Hub: The future of the creative industry and downtown Kingston | Jamaica Observer
Posted on October 18, 2020
Chances are you've passed the Swiss Stores building, located at 107 Harbour Street, oblivious to the magic that happens upstairs. The top floor of the historic building is now home to the Kingston Creative Hub, the brainchild of Andrea Dempster-Chung. Interior designer and Managing Director If Walls Could Talk, Joelle Smith curated the niche co-working space with the collaboration of many.
The 2,200 sq-ft space boasts six offices, a podcast booth featuring a Mara Made live edge guango tabletop, a large conference room which doubles as a photography studio, and a mix of lounge and hotdesk seating...
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.