By Keisha Oliver. This past summer at the University of The Bahamas (UB) Oakes Field campus through a meeting of creative minds, an enthusiasm to produce was met, with a heart to preserve. UB’s Carpentry and Visual Arts Departments collaborated to host an intensive wood workshop in June designed as a pilot project to foster a sense of community through craftsmanship and creativity.
By Keisha Oliver. Five days a week, you’ll find Bahamian ceramicist Jessica Colebrooke in her Nassau studio, which is tucked away behind her home in the Gleniston Park community. 19 years ago, Colebrooke started out in a 10 x 10ft room with a sheet of plywood on two crates and a small kiln. Today she owns and manages “Jessica’s Tileworks Studio,” one of the leading ceramics and tile manufacturers in The Bahamas. As a mother, wife, educator, artist and entrepreneur, Colebrooke has committed her life and work to supporting and nurturing a culture of creativity.
A Sustainable Future for Exuma presents several volumes in our reading nook including: The World Without Us – Alan Weisman; Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Posthumanities) – Timothy Morton; The Ethics of Earth Art – Amanda Boetzkes; The End of Nature – Bill McKibben; Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (A John Hope Franklin Centre Book) – Jane Bennett; The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things – Hannah Holmes and The Last Pictures – Trevor Paglen among others.
Ian Bethel-Bennett writes for the Nassau Guardian: The results of months of planning and international cooperation between Austrian students and College of the Bahamas students, along with investment from the International Development Bank (IDB), the plans by the Sustainable Nassau Urban Lab were launched on Friday 29th July, 2016, at The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.
By 2050 the world sea levels are expected to rise a staggering amount, leaving low-lying areas like our archipelago nation to question our future existence and the way we live on this planet, not to mention the millions of people who could be displaced by this gradual flooding. Global environmental pressures are reaching a steady climax, and we are faced with having to change the ways we live to secure a more sustainable future, not just environmentally, but economically as well.