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

A QUIET REBELLION

In Guadeloupe, Zoé Pheron uses embroidery and iconography as meditation. Inspired by the nature and energy of her new and old home, Zoé, who left Guadeloupe as a child, returned amidst the chaos of covid and the brewing of Black Lives Matter protest to sew centipedes and mermaids into fabric.

SINCERELY VICTORIA TOM

APRIL, 2023 Victoria Tom creates clothes you want to live in. The composing of an essential ‘made in the Caribbean’ wardrobe. Clothes I’d wear daily. This idea of wearing anything repeatedly might sound like blasphemy in a time where it seems most fashionable to document every moment and outfit for a digital show. Still, Victoria […]

OF BOOKS, SAINTS AND CINZ

NOV, 2021 Bookshelves the world over owe a debt of gratitude to the Caribbean literary tradition. The region’s writers, Nobel Laureates, hometown heroes et al, continue to share the West Indian experience from a variety of vantages, languaging something that’s better off lived. Cindy Allman probably includes a prayer for the health of our giants […]

A LESSON IN SWIM

July 21, 2020 If you live on an island you know one thing is true: an arsenal of well cut swimsuits is essential. Whether it’s a family beach run (phase 4, please come soon), JAVA boat ride (yes, that term is here to stay), or, more recently, at home trying to survive the heat, there […]

THE NEW WAVE JAMAICA

March 02, 2020 I first attended New Wave JA about 2 years ago in 2017, and the theme of the night was “Arts + Architecture”. At the time, I was an architecture student so I was pretty intrigued to find out what the event had in store. The venue was filled with like-minded contemporaries, both […]