Kingston Creative is a Jamaican arts non-profit dedicated to empowering creative people and the transformation of Downtown Kingston. Recently they partnered with the AFJ to offer a pan-Caribbean emergency COVID-19 relief grant for creatives in the region.
CATAPULT, A Caribbean Arts Grant was implemented by the American Friends of Jamaica Inc. (AFJ) along with support of the AFJ’s grantee Kingston Creative Ltd, an arts NGO based in Jamaica, and a partner of Kingston Creative, Fresh Milk, an arts organization based in Barbados. CATAPULT was designed as a response effort to the challenges faced by the creative sector as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The CATAPULT fund ran from August – December 2020 and expanded Kingston Creative’s reach from Jamaica to the Caribbean. It supported 1,210 Caribbean creatives from 26 countries across the Caribbean, who were working in culture, heritage, …