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Sarah Venable (second from left) and Sonia Williams (second from right) at Sarah's birthday gathering, December 2023.
Sarah Venable (second from left) and Sonia Williams (second from right) and friends: celebrating the livity.  Photo Copyright © 2024 by Sarah Venable.    SONIA WILLIAMS...
Saturday 29th June 2024
Alleluia Porkchops by The Gap Theatre, created and directed by L. Amanda Cumberbatch, 2014.
Playbill from Alleluia Pork Chops.  Adapted from the work of Barbadian writers Kamau Brathwaite, Austin Clarke, Timothy Callender, and John Wickham by L. Amanda Cumberbatch, and also...
Sunday 31st March 2024
The maze at German adventure park Erlebnispark Teichland.
The maze at German adventure park Erlebnispark Teichland. Sometimes, life’s like that.  Copyright © 2014 by HuffPost.    War, war is stupid And people are stupid...
Wednesday 14th February 2024
 Picasso dove w/Gaza and flowers. Composite image Copyright © 2023 by ArtsEtc.
    I WAS SCROLLING Instagram one day when I came across the question, “Does your empathy come with conditions?” It struck me forcibly, and when I shared it on...
Wednesday 8th November 2023
Empty Beds installation in Jerusalem, October 2023.
The Empty Beds installation in Jerusalem "symbolizes the Israeli hostages held in Gaza since October 7, when Hamas terrorists staged an assault on Israeli border communities and an outdoor...
Thursday 2nd November 2023
Barbadian poet Cyndi Celeste at the Marché de la poésie in Paris, France, June 2023.
Barbadian poet Cyndi Celeste at the Marché de la poésie in Paris, France, June 2023: discovering how not to get (too) lost in translation.  Photo Copyright © 2023 by...
Friday 20th October 2023
Former Nation newspaper senior editor Ridley Greene playing at the launch of ArtsEtc in 2004.
Ridley Greene: writer, editor, mentor, friend, and one of the featured acts at ArtsEtc’s launch at Waterfront Café way back in 2004.  Photo Copyright © 2023 by Kingsley Roberts....
Sunday 24th September 2023
Linda M Deane (The Summer Storyteller) with photograph by Kai Miller -- a 60th birthday gift. Miller is one of many young and emerging artists ArtsEtc has worked with over its 20-year existence
1 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...
Saturday 15th July 2023
Happy 20th anniversary to us: ArtsEtc 2003-2023.  Design by Akaila Armstrong.
What’s in a number?  Art Copyright © 2023 by Akaila Armstrong and ArtsEtc Inc.   You say it's your birthday Well it's my birthday too, yeah The Beatles, “...
Wednesday 29th March 2023
Photo by Richard D. Venne, Vermont, USA, November 2022.
“Good morning from Vermont.”  Photo Copyright © 2022 by Richard D. Venne.   “You say you’ve been twice a wife,  And you’re through with life...
Friday 9th December 2022