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CATAPULT Connects Artists Across 25 Caribbean countries
Here is news from the CATAPULT Caribbean Arts Grant program launched by Kingston Creative and Fresh Milk. Note that a closing event, “Meet the artists of CATAPULT,” is planned for December 14 at 6:00pm AST, 5:00pm EST. This will be livestreamed on the Kingston Creative YouTube channel and will culminate a day of activities where the awardees themselves will take to social media to network, share their CATAPULT journey and creations.
For the creatives who were a part of the US$320,000 CATAPULT Caribbean Arts Grant programme, the experience has proven to be a silver lining in what for many has been a bleak year. The emergency COVID-relief response launched by Kingston Creative and Fresh Milk, with financing through American Friends of Jamaica, had the Caribbean creative at the centre.
The St Kitts Nevis Observer
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados The Caribbean Development Bank has awarded US$100,000 in grant funding to seven cultural projects through an initiative to provide emergency relief to the creative industries (CI) sector in the wake of COVID-19.
The funding came under a special Emergency Relief Grant, an output of the bank’s Cultural and Creative Industries Innovation Fund (CIIF) to assist CI entrepreneurs who demonstrated loss of income from music, festival and carnival events that have been cancelled as a result of COVID-19.
CIIF received over 300 applications from 17 of CDB’s 19 Borrowing Member Countries. Lisa Harding, Coordinator, Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSME) Development at CDB noted:
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Pascale Faublas’s Fresh Milk Residency
Fresh Milk shares the fourth and final blog post by Haitian resident artist Pascale Faublas, who is joining us as part of an artist exchange programme with Le Centre d’Art, Haiti, to create opportunities for women arts practitioners. Pascale reflects on some of the work being done by Barbadian creatives and regional arts spaces, and how they have continued to find ways of exhibiting and supporting artists during the difficult circumstances of 2020, as well as sharing her third piece created in Barbados.
Week 4: Already my last week of artistic residency in Barbados!