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Beat Street: Kingston as a Global Cultural Tourism Centre

In the short space of five years, Kingston Creative has hosted over 54 networking meetups, 23 ArtWalks and installed 74 murals in Downtown Kingston. Hundreds of creatives have been trained through its technology focused, entrepreneur development and creative economy growth programme called CreaTech, and thousands of creatives have benefitted from grants to support their livelihoods.

The Kingston Creative Story – the importance and limits of partnership

Kingston Creative Incubator Mentors 12 New Startups

Kingston Creative today announced that 114 applicants applied to be a part of the second Creative Hub Incubator Cohort . Since 2021, Kingston Creative has partnered with the InterAmerican Development Bank’s IDB Lab and the Development Bank of Jamaica’s BIGEE programme, to help early-stage Orange Economy startups drive business growth. The incubator provides this through mentoring, provision of working space and scaling activities.

Kingston Creative Launches New Travel Programme for Creatives

Kingston Creative, in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank Lab (IDB Lab) and the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) is introducing a Travel Grant Programme which will facilitate visits to overseas markets by six creative entrepreneurs between August 2022 - December 2023. This year, three Jamaican creatives will participate in creative fora and festivals in Mexico, Haiti & Curacao respectively.

JCC & Kingston Creative announce ‘Block of Excellence’ partnership

July 26, 2022
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Cosmos Joseph
Block of Excellence, Downtown Kingston, JCC

Jamaica Chamber of Commerce and Kingston Creative announce ‘Block of Excellence’ partnership to transform Downtown Kingston. This partnership leverages the UNESCO designation of Kingston as a Creative City of Music and will catalyse much needed economic and social benefits for residents, communities and businesses.

Meet the Creative Hub Incubator Awardees!

February 22, 2022
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Cosmos Joseph
Development Bank of Jamaica, IDB Labs, Incubator Programme

Kingston Creative will launch an annual summit this month, the Kingston Culture Forum. The Kingston Culture Forum is a conference convening cultural and creative industry stakeholders in the public, private, academic and social sectors. The theme for the event will be “Downtown Kingston: creative economy, placemaking and sustainable urban development”.

Meet the Go Global Accelerator Awardees!

February 11, 2022
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Cosmos Joseph

We are excited to introduce you to the awardees for our Go Global Accelerator Programme, one of the several programmes done under the CreaTech initiative, done in partnership with IDB Labs and the Development Bank of Jamaica!