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Trench Town Live! – Celebrating the Place Where Reggae was Born
Posted on April 26, 2020
Home of reggae icons like Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and, the Wailers, the community of Trench Town, in association with Kingston Creative, hosted “Trench Town Live!” a community day of arts and craft, walking tours and a concert. Trench Town Live! Artwalk The day starts with a cultural walking tour around the Trench Town community, famously dubbed the “birthplace of reggae” due to the many Reggae icons the community produced. The aim of the walking tour, in association with Kingston Creative, is to promote community tourism and empowerment. The Trench Town Live! walking tour was led by local volunteers and youth from Trench Town.
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Kingston Creative February ArtWalk and Market Street with a Mural Bus Tour
Posted on April 26, 2020
The theme for Kingston Creative’s Artwalk for the month of February was music. Kingston Creative conducts monthly themed activities, where art including live mural painting and several discussions involving the arts community are held in different sections surrounding Water Lane and the restaurant F&B Downtown on Harbour Street. This month, they organized a mural tour by bus, taking patrons to visit the thirty (30) murals done by artists under the initiative of Kingston Creative. As a Love Not Likes member, I was asked to cover the Artwalk for the month of February.
Just blocks away from the General Penitentiary, in the heart of Rae Town, Kingston Creative, in association with Women Empowering Women, held their first Rae Town ArtWalk last Saturday. It is the first in a series of community arts events that will be held by the group in hopes to "encourage more earning from community tourism and to position Kingston as the creative capital of the Caribbean."
Topic: How Are Creatives Responding to the Environment Date & Time: April 24, 2020 | 5pm - 7pm Hosted on Facebook Live @kingstoncreative
Date & Time: April 26, 2020 | 11am - 3pm Hosted on IGTV @kingstoncreative
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Kingston Creative Introduces New Digital Commissions For Local Artists
Posted on April 2, 2020
In light of the impact on creative people and businesses from the COVID-19 outbreak, Kingston Creative is introducing a new pot of funds for virtual arts activities, called Digital Commissions. Understanding that it is critical to keep creatives earning and visible during this time, the local arts NGO is allocating $2,700,000 to new commissions that creatives in Jamaica can apply until - May 31, 2020 by contacting info@kingstoncreative.org.
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Kingston Creative transforms the monthly Artwalk festival experience by going virtual on Sunday, March 29, 2020. Amid the outbreak of the unprecedented Coronavirus (COVID-19), small businesses and entrepreneurs in the creative sector are likely to be affected by the increased social distancing. The Virtual Artwalk will give artists and creative entrepreneurs an opportunity to earn from virtual performances and promotions.
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How Creatives Can Take Advantage Of Pandemic Restrictions | The Gleaner
Posted on March 28, 2020
The Kingston Creative brand is bold and will persist in its promotion of downtown Kingston as a cultural, artful hotspot even as citizens are asked to keep off the streets in the continued effort to flatten the curve of the COVID-19 viral spread. The brand will persist in the same fashion as many others have recently adopted, with the very first virtual staging of the Kingston Creative Artwalk, this Sunday at 11 a.m. on Instagram. While speaking at The Honey Bun Foundation Virtual Summit (viz Zoom, Facebook) last Thursday, under the topic ‘Critical Conversations for Critical Times’, artwalk organiser Andrea Dempster-Chung took the opportunity ...
The coronavirus pandemic is not stopping Kingston Creative, the outfit which organises to the monthly Artwalk in downtown Kingston. The event, which showcases the cultural and entrepreneurial spirit of Jamaicans, set against the backdrop of the heart of the capital city, will be heading to cyberspace in light of the ban of mass gatherings at this time. According to Kingston Creative's executive director Andrea Dempster Chung, next Sunday's event, which is all dedicated to promoting literature and poetry, will be compiled into a three-hour-long programme which will be aired on the organisation's Instagram platform after which it will be place on their YouTube channel where it can be viewed for a very long time to come...
