In Conversation: Arts Beyond the Classroom

The University of The Bahamas Visual Arts and Design (VAD) Department will be hosting 'Arts Beyond The Classroom', a virtual panel highlighting social arts initiatives in the Caribbean on Thursday, April 8th from 6:00 pm (EST). The panel is part of VAD’s 2021 event series "Pedagogical and Perceptual Shifts."

The Hub Collective’s representatives Colin Peters, Jessica Jaja and myself will be joined by InPulse Art Project (Jamaica) and Arts-in-Action (Trinidad & Tobago) to discuss methodologies to alternative community learning in the arts followed by a Q&A session.

A special thank you to Assistant Professor & Head of Department Visual Arts & Design Department, Keisha Oliver, for inviting The Hub Collective to lend our voice and perspective to this platform.

RSVP to attend here.

Participating Organisations

InPulse is an ongoing project undertaken in 2015 by Rubis Mécénat in partnership with Rubis Energy Jamaica in East Kingston, Jamaica. It strives to support Jamaican youth and improve the conditions of young adults from local communities through the practice of visual arts as a positive means of expression.

Arts-in-Action is the Applied Creative Arts Unit of UWI’s Department of Creative and Festival Arts (Trinidad, W.I.). Their core belief is that the arts have an indispensable role to play in the process of social change and development and their mission targets Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean region.