NGCI was invited to participate in the CATAPULT Lockdown Virtual Salon, a programme that aims to mitigate isolation, especially heightened during the current pandemic, by creating virtual platforms for cultural practitioners to engage in discourse about and explore their evolving practices. These one-hour artist talks from their homes or studios are live-streamed via the Fresh Milk Residency in Barbados via their YouTube channel at 1PM and 4PM AST, every Tuesday and Friday between 29 September 29th and 20 November, 2020.
Each cultural practitioner is paired with a co-discussant for an open conversation about their work. A live audience will be able to comment and ask questions during the event, which will be open to the public with a focus on reaching a wide cross-section of the English, Spanish, French and Dutch speaking Caribbean arts community, as well as those civil society organisations who are working in the target areas of culture, gender, LGBTQIA+, human rights and climate justice.
NGCI Director Natalie Urquhart spoke with artists Susan Mains (Grenada) and Nicholas Rose (Jamaica) to learn more about their practice.