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Sharing lessons in how to live.  Ralph Ellison in Harlem in 1966.  Photograph Copyright © by David Attie/Getty.

A Turn in the Road

Sharing lessons in how to live. Ralph Ellison in Harlem in 1966. Photograph Copyright © by David Attie/Getty. A gun in hand knows no…

Robert Edison Sandiford·March 31, 2025
Spice of Life - a perfect venue for 4 Love of Barbados over Independence weekend.  [Photo: Vaughn Renwick]]

4 LOVE OF BARBADOS NO SMALL THING

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…

ArtsEtc·December 17, 2024
Sarah Venable (second from left) and Sonia Williams (second from right) at Sarah's birthday gathering, December 2023.

Living, Loving and Leaving this Hyphenated Life

Sarah Venable (second from left) and Sonia Williams (second from right) and friends: celebrating the livity. Photo Copyright © 2024 by…

Sarah Venable·June 29, 2024
Alleluia Porkchops by The Gap Theatre, created and directed by L. Amanda Cumberbatch, 2014.

The Truth about Bajan Theatre

Playbill from Alleluia Pork Chops. Adapted from the work of Barbadian writers Kamau Brathwaite, Austin Clarke, Timothy Callender, and John…

Ayesha Gibson-Gill·March 31, 2024
The maze at German adventure park Erlebnispark Teichland.

Finding the Third Way

The maze at German adventure park Erlebnispark Teichland. Sometimes, life’s like that. Copyright © 2014 by HuffPost. War, war is stupid And…

Robert Edison Sandiford·February 14, 2024
 Picasso dove w/Gaza and flowers. Composite image Copyright © 2023 by ArtsEtc.

Of Conditional Empathy

I WAS SCROLLING Instagram one day when I came across the question, “Does your empathy come with conditions?” It struck me forcibly, and…

Sharon Hurley Hall·November 8, 2023
Empty Beds installation in Jerusalem, October 2023.

Hamas-Israeli Conflict Costly “Wake-up Call”

The Empty Beds installation in Jerusalem "symbolizes the Israeli hostages held in Gaza since October 7, when Hamas terrorists staged an…

Peter Laurie·November 3, 2023
Barbadian poet Cyndi Celeste at the Marché de la poésie in Paris, France, June 2023.

Transcending Translation: A UNESCO Transcultura Experience

Barbadian poet Cyndi Celeste at the Marché de la poésie in Paris, France, June 2023: discovering how not to get (too) lost in translation.…

Cyndi Celeste·October 21, 2023
Former Nation newspaper senior editor Ridley Greene playing at the launch of ArtsEtc in 2004.

What Is a Ridley Greene?

Ridley Greene: writer, editor, mentor, friend, and one of the featured acts at ArtsEtc’s launch at Waterfront Café way back in 2004. Photo…

Robert Edison Sandiford·September 24, 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

20 in 20 (plus one to grow on)

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…

Linda M. Deane·July 16, 2023
Happy 20th anniversary to us: ArtsEtc 2003-2023.  Design by Akaila Armstrong.

What’s in a number? How It Feels to Turn Twenty Again

Artist Joshua Clarke's short video on the creation of the cover illustration for Cyndi Celeste's Girl Before Country. You say it's your…

Robert Edison Sandiford·March 29, 2023
Photo by Richard D. Venne, Vermont, USA, November 2022.

So This Is Christmas?

“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,…

Robert Edison Sandiford·December 10, 2022

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