Double Dutch: Curating Relation Across the Caribbean is a sustained curatorial programme initiated in 2015 at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, fostering intentional intra-Caribbean exchange between artists, institutions, and contexts separated by colonial borders and linguistic divisions. Resisting reductive regional identity, it models the Caribbean as a space of multiplicity and relation. Now in its tenth edition, it stands as a vital form of Caribbean cultural infrastructure built on care, continuity, and courage.

Many thanks to Jodi Minnis-Rolle for the invitation to reflect on the legacy of Double Dutch and its relational role across the Caribbean. This essay will be featured in the upcoming publication from the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, documenting the last ten iterations of the programme.

Healing Together is a collaborative psychosocial initiative between The Hub Collective Inc. and MindTHRIVE Co., developed in response to Hurricane Beryl's devastation across SVG in 2024. Delivered by local practitioners across Mayreau, Union Island, and Bequia, it integrates Psychological First Aid, counselling, peer support, and nature-based practices within a trauma-informed, culturally grounded framework. The project argues for a shift from clinic-bound mental health models toward collective, place-based care systems suited to Caribbean SIDS facing recurrent climate shocks.

After 24 years of political dominance, St. Vincent and the Grenadines experienced a decisive democratic rupture in the 2025 election. This essay reflects on the psychological unravelling of authoritarian governance and the opportunity now facing the nation: to rebuild civic life, decentralise power, strengthen ecological and food sovereignty, guard against foreign influence, and cultivate a political culture grounded in accountability, participation, and collective care.

This writing explores Des/astres (2024) by Tabita Rezaire as a cosmotechnical installation rooted in African and Indigenous epistemologies. Through the symbolic force of the calabash and the spatial practices of rest and ritual, Rezaire enacts a decolonial, pluriversal pedagogy in which ancestral technologies reconfigure knowledge, time, and the cosmic order. The full essay is printed in WMW NOW #1: Tabita Rezaire, published by KHM-Museumsverband, Vienna, Austria.

Sanctuary After the Storm: A Toolkit of Repair Work for Caribbean Museums reflects on a co-creative psychosocial healing initiative piloted by the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas following Hurricane Dorian in 2019. Drawing on art therapy, community care, and ancestral healing practices, the initiative reached over 2,000 Bahamians and Haitians, 90% first-time visitors. The essay argues that Caribbean cultural institutions must centre care, interconnectedness, and community sovereignty as foundational acts of decolonial practice.

This paper was presented at the 47th ICOFOM Symposium in 2024, as part of an international convening on ecological museology, archipelagic heritage, and the role of museums and cultural institutions in responding to climate emergency and community care.

In this report first published on Global Voices, The Bridge, Bynoe asks critical questions of island communities across the Grenadines: can they co-visualise positive changes as disaster capitalism, land grab, and the threats of gentrification, ‘organised abandonment’ and ‘Build Back Better’ loom?