February 14, 2024

Statia pays homage to the Golden Rock Ancestors

On February 16th & February 17th, 2024, the Statia Cultural Heritage Committee (SCHIC), in collaboration with the St. Eustatius Historical Foundation, will host a community engagement event that will bring the descendant community of enslaved Africans together in sacred spaces to honor and remember them. The funding of this event was made possible through the National Institute for the Dutch Slavery History and Legacy (NiNsee).

February 13, 2024

Pan is joyful, wonderful music

Stick around pan long enough – in all its manifestations as a musical instrument and agent of social mobilisation and change – and you eventually realise that any “beating” experienced will come from its own hands. By Wesley Gibbings from the height of Trinidad & Tobago Carnival Read on here

February 13, 2024

Pan is joyful, wonderful music

Stick around pan long enough – in all its manifestations as a musical instrument and agent of social mobilisation and change – and you eventually realise that any “beating” experienced will come from its own hands.

December 24, 2023

Collection of Afro-Puerto Rican art displayed at Casa Silvana

Humacao, Puerto Rico – Curator Edwin Velázquez Collazo is the administrator in the creation of the first collection of Afro-Puerto Rican art that will be showcased at Casa Silvana, an alternative rural space for the dissemination of Afro-Puerto Rican art which he founded and directs in the municipality of Humacao. Violeta Vani, “Atlas”, 2023, 14” […]

December 19, 2023

Nation Building | Book by former St. Maarten Governor Eugene Holiday chronicles island attaining Country Status

With this latest book, “Nation Building, Our Challenges, Resilience and Responsibility”, in short Nation Building, author drs. Eugene B. Holiday delivers a socio-political history book covering significant developments of the first two decades of 21st century Sint Maarten and provides building blocks for the nation’s further development.