Bush Medicine Revival

In August 2020, I was invited to join the Board of Directors at The Hub Collective Inc., an inclusive arts education non-profit organization on Bequia. The Hub exists to support, develop and uplift the artistic talent, and to progress arts and culture in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and my particular focus is non-profit regeneration, grant writing, fundraising and programme development around heritage and the environment. It has been a dream of mine to be able to contribute to my home and that is slowly beginning to manifest. 

In December the non-profit was awarded our first international grant through the Prince Claus Fund and Goethe-Instituut under the theme "Cultural and Artistic Responses to Environmental Change". For one year, the team will be focusing on the intergenerational archiving and re-activation project "Bush Medicine Revival" safeguarding the traditional bush medicines, elder stories and ecological knowledge across all Bequia communities.

I will be helming one of the leading roles as Program Manager and stay tuned on the rolling out the four aspects of the project, calls for action and will be regularly communicating with you, our public – in Bequia and across the diaspora – to let you know about opportunities for engagement and collaboration. It will take a VILLAGE to make “Bush Medicine Revival” possible and I look forward to igniting Bequia’s collective community spirit with old-time stories, traditions, lore and rituals.