On this week’s Blank Canvas, our host, Amard, was visited by Averia Wright, Sue-Katz and Dylan Rapillard to discuss the quirky, endearing and very vibrant exhibition “Fowl Play” on display at The Current at Baha Mar from Friday, September 23rd through October.
On today’s Blank Canvas, the show on which we discuss visual culture and creative community, your Guest host Katrina Cartwright is joined in the studio by “Mercy” artists Sonia Farmer and Yasmin Glinton Poitier and curator John Cox, as they delve into this complex and thought-provoking theme and share tidbits on the show which opens October 6th, 2022.
On “NAGB’s Blank Canvas” , we meet Marielle Barrow, scholar and organiser of the Visual Arts Biennial for the Caribbean Development Bank, and Sonia Farmer, one of the Bahamian finalists and winner of one of three $5,000 grants.
By Natalie Willis. The issue of rape, and subsequently its deafening silence, is a shocking social disservice in this country, and it is something we should be using our voices to ask many, many questions about. With a failed gender equality referendum, and marital rape still being legal, it is hardly surprising that the statistics for sexual assault in The Bahamas continue to rise. Read between the lines of the statistics and there’s still not enough room for the 60%+ unreported sexual assaults, let alone the “pick-up” lines (see: street harassment) that feeds into gender-based violence. The statistics for the rape of men are even less likely to show the severity of the situation. The sexual violence against women, children, and men, in addition to the commonplace armed robbery and assault, we are left with a labyrinth of heartache and bloodshed that is difficult to find our way out of.
Many gathered for an evening of poetry on Thursday, August 10th as Sonia Farmer and Letitia Pratt launched their new books, both published by Poinciana Paper Press.
On Thursday, Jan 12th, 2017 from 11-4pm NE8 participating artist, Sonia Farmer will offer a free workshop on Large Format Paper-making at the NAGB, on the heels of the successful workshop conducted a few days ago at the Lyford Cay International School.
Sonia Farmer wears several hats and she’ll be packing them all up soon for a professional pilgrimage. A writer and book artist with her own printing press, Farmer is making her way to a series of creative spaces and cultural events in the Caribbean and U.S. The first stop en route will be Barbados in March, where she will take up a month-long residency program at Fresh Milk.