Dear John: Notes for an open letter to the new Minister of Culture

(or 7 days in the life of a creative whose well of dreams is deeper than her pocket)

SHORTLY AFTER Minister John King’s open invitation to the artists' community of Barbados to bombard him with ideas, project proposals, wish lists, I volunteered to respond on ArtsEtc’s behalf.  Of course, I’ve procrastinated. No idea where to begin. But last week after more than seven near-consecutive days of creative adventure, I am beginning to sense what the notes for the draft of that letter might look like….

Carifesta XIII Before and Beyond

Connecting and reconnecting at Carifesta: longtime colleagues and bibliophiles Nailah Folami Imoja of Barbados' contingent and Andy Taitt of The Book Place.  They were in adjoining book stalls at Carifesta XIII held at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre in Barbados from August 17-27, 2017.  Photo Copyright © 2017 by Graham Bannister.

 

“…AND WHEN I RUN, I feel His pleasure.