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Saturday, July 19, 2025

Artists come together for panel discussion

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Writer and Kar­nak House pub­lish­er Dr Amon Sa­ba Saakana voiced the opin­ion that we need to dis­cuss our art in our own con­texts, in­stead of con­tin­u­ing to view it through a Eu­ro­pean prism. Dancer and per­for­mance artist Dave Williams ex­pressed con­cern that even though the We the Artists fo­rum seemed some­what out of touch with the T&T arts scene, the ex­hi­bi­tion had re­ceived much sup­port from the Gov­ern­ment and the Mu­se­um, while lo­cal artists of­ten found the in­sti­tu­tion and its re­sources in­ac­ces­si­ble. Nimah Muwak­il Za­kuri, act­ing Cu­ra­tor, said the Mu­se­um was open to work­ing with and sup­port­ing lo­cal artists. Af­ter the pan­el, there were per­for­mances by Michelle Isa­va, Free­town Col­lec­tive, fea­tur­ing Muham­mad Muwak­il and Lou Lyons, and spo­ken word artist Ryan Stollmey­er. Guests were in­vit­ed to have re­fresh­ments in the court­yard.


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