Reggae singer Protoje was among the speakers.
Some of the island’s top creative minds presented insights into the industry during the recent staging of the INDIGGO virtual conference.
Themed, ‘From Hustle To Enterprise’, the event also featured corporate executives offering creatives advice on collaboration with private sector entities, and members of the academia giving titbits to enhance the creative experience.
The event delved into topics such as When Corporate Meets Creative; Numbers Don’t Lie; Beyond The Hustle – Managing the Finances of Your Enterprise; and From Hustle to Enterprise.
In the table talk When Corporate Meets Creative, CEO of In.Digg.Nation Collective and performing artiste, Protoje, said he believes creatives must understand how the relationship with the corporate world could advance their careers, while also being aware when they are being taken advantage of.
“A pandemic is never convenient,” pointed out CHC’s Senior Vice President and Clinical Director Margaret Flinter.
Despite wearing layers of clothing, a hat, and handwarmers nurse Ramon Clark could feel winter s bite. It s unbearable,” said Clark.
Still, he had a job to do, a very important one.
“I want to make sure we re getting as many people tested as we possibly can,” said Clark.
LPN Ramon Clark braved bitterly cold temperatures at a New Britain testing site.
Cars rolled through the New Britain testing site where Clark was assigned on Friday. Patients kept warm in their cars, while testers braved the elements to help give them answers.
In Waterbury, Covid testing continues despite the frigid temps
The Coronavirus testing is largely being done by Connecticut National Guard members who are out in the elements most of the day Author: Jim Altman Updated: 10:12 PM EST January 29, 2021
WATERBURY, Conn “It’s somewhere between, zero and ten degrees,” said Gary Wallace from Community Health Center.
Wallace wasn’t adding the wind chill into that equation – still, the COVID-19 testing at the Brass Mill Center parking lot continued. Wallace, who is a community engagement director at Community Health Center, noted that they have 15 testing sites up and running despite the frigid cold.
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Serenely peering out from stained-glass or standing atop pedestals while piously presenting the instruments of their martyrdom, the saints can often appear otherworldly in church art.
Carey Wallace’s new children’s book, “Stories of the Saints: Bold and Inspiring Tales of Adventure, Grace and Courage,” shows that holy men and women whose miraculous deeds, charitable works and battles with armies, beasts and demons she chronicles with gusto also were what Wallace calls “relentlessly human.”
“The saints are often scared,” said Wallace, a novelist based in Brooklyn, New York. “The saints often don’t know what to do. The saints are often running away from responsibility. They don’t feel like they are qualified for what they’ve been asked to do. The saints are very, very much like us.”
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This essay is being published on Monday, Jan. 18, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It is now two days before Inauguration and five days after Trump s impeachment. These days feel like years.
The forces of white supremacy and American Apartheid that Dr. King fought against those decades ago were never fully exorcised or vanquished.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a civic holiday in America, one when the country celebrates its own belief (which is really a comforting lie) that it transcended racism and white supremacy through the blood sacrifice of one man and the other (acceptable) heroes of the civil rights movement.