Adam, From Foreign

Adam ‘Foreigner’ Cooper, A multi-hyphenate in an increasingly deep sea of them, Cooper’s cross-cultural group hug continues into Carnival, and in the part of the festival he totes in his carry-on.

Pack Light

If you look up ‘wanderlust’ in the dictionary, you just might find the name Shanya Greene. For many years the designer has been an avid traveller. In the past two years alone she embarked on a nomadic journey spanning New York, Europe, Trinidad, and Bali. Her clothing brand, by SHANYA, formerly known as BagLady Basics, serves as a testament to her escapades. “When I travel I walk a lot. I want something that feels comfortable.” Even as we spoke, Shanya was somewhere else. While I looked out at the night sky, Shanya perched in her Sydney apartment where the day was still new.

BIG TINGS A GWAN CHEF STIKXZ

Brittney Williams, affectionately known as Stikxz is a creative through and through. The internationally celebrated young chef from Jamaica is making waves across the globe with her eclectic culinary artistry.

EAT AH FOOD

Over geranium tea in Barataria, Trinidad, I met with Baidawi Assing, the creator of the popular Trinidadian YouTube food channel, with 115,000 followers and growing, ‘EatAhfood’.

Metal x Wire

Symoné Currie, is the founder and creative genius at the helm of ‘Metal x Wire’ -a brand that embraces fluidity and individual expression with a penchant for melding the delicate with the daring in a way that challenges tradition.

Love, Loss, and Liberation

Jeffrey Wight, known in the artistic world as Will the Wolf, creates music that exudes an undeniable magnetism. With each release, he invites us on an epic journey, unfolding tales through music and video that range from whimsical to intensely heartfelt. You can’t help but be swept along.

BANFIELD. Being an Artist

“There is a measure of sustenance when you get to stand and observe something completed as your future self, I love that feeling. When you see what you were able to do – and I do remind myself often by imagining how it would feel to experience hanging up a finished piece or putting it out there to be bashed and /or loved. I typically imagine all this before even starting anything and then we get here – a finished product.” – Kriston Banfield

TOCO WEDDING

As small as Trinidad seems on the map, there are still places that you can get lost in. Surely you’ve driven off the side of the island, skirted the coastline, magically sprouted fins and sailed across the ocean and ended up on another landmass. Surely you’ve closed your eyes and woken up elsewhere You’ve got […]

SATURDAY WITH JADE

Belmont is a maze of winding streets and narrow lanes that slope upwards into densely packed hillsides that echo with history. Once called Freetown, Belmont has always been at the crux of the developing city of Port of Spain. Today, my great, great grandmother would not recognise it if not for the street names and a few […]