Highlights from ArtsEtc's 4 Love of Barbados event at Spice of Life, November 2024.
 

Have you ever had an idea that started as a small thing, a seed, barely an imagining, and then watched it as it grew legs, wings—a mind, even, of its own?

That’s what ArtsEtc has experienced over the last few months with its storytelling and publishing project 4 Love of Barbados.

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2001 • I leave the newspaper I was working at with a baby in my belly, a plan in my head and a rough blueprint in my hand. I call my co-conspirator, Robert Edison Sandiford (who had already left the newspaper), and a few weeks later we convene a session of like-minded souls to see how a newsletter called ArtsEtc might get off the ground. We meet at my home (chowing down on a mean chow mein and some fried flying fish to fuel the flood of ideas) and again, later, in a back room at Queen’s Park Gallery.