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...

Kingston Creative revolutionalises 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. The inaugural Virtual Artwalk is the first digital commision of a newly created fund aimed at hosting various virtual art activities, sponsored by Sagicor, tTech and Tourism Enhancement Fund, First 50 sponsors...

It was billed as a weekend of music, “a musical weekend like no other”, and in a significant way, Kingston Creative outdid itself. It delivered. On Friday, February 21, the ‘Kingston Creative Meet-up’ focused on the ‘Migration of the Music’ inside F & Downtown, at 107 Harbour Street. The link-up featured a panel discussion with music experts Earl Chinna Smith, Ewan Simpson, Herbie Miller, Nadine Sutherland, and Professor Deborah Hickling. In addition, eight genres of Jamaican music echoed from the mouths and instruments of DJ Fenix, live band Ozou’ne, and Pon fYaH. The ‘Meet Us on Beat Street’ portion took over the intersection of Charles and Orange streets. The segment, in keeping...