To Throw Rocks, curated by Matthew Rahming, is an exploration of wider Black masculinities. In unpacking the tropes around Black masculine identities in The Bahamas, through a survey of practices ranging from the 70s to now, this selection puts particular focus on love, sex and sexuality, tenderness, labor and violence. The exhibition features work by Rashad Adderley, John Beadle, Justin Benjamin, Tyesha Brooks, Blake Fox, Amaani Hepburn, Allan Jones and Rashad Leamount, Jodi Minnis, Heino Schmid, Jarette Stubbs and Bradley Wood. In an effort to widen the scope of voices present, artwork from the National Collection, The Collection of the University of The Bahamas and the Brenton Story Collection have been drawn from to round out the conversation in its fullness. These voices come together to acknowledge the powers and privileges (or lack thereof) at play, to face the vulnerability, to bring awareness to responsibility, and to address conflicts around what it means to exist as a man, particularly a black man, in The Bahamas.

To Throw Rocks opens tonight at 5:30pm in the Franklyn Wilson Graduate Centre on the University of The Bahamas’ Oaksfield Campus in conjunction with the 8th Annual Critical Caribbean Symposium series. The exhibition will run until December 2019. For more information, please feel free to contact Matthew Rahming at mr.matthew.rahming@hotmail.com.

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Show is open tonight and tomorrow only.

The Island House is thrilled to host the first solo exhibition entitled “Why Not Pretty” by talented Bahamian artist Janeen Walker. It opens tonight at 6pm in The Island House’s Meeting Room on Western Road.

Walker uses the expressive and gestural technique of acrylic pouring to create both large-scale and intimate works that exude the vibrancy of the painting language. She explores the way in which marks are spontaneously created through a collaboration between artist and art material. Walker draws emphasis on each layered pour, exposing them through the transparency of epoxy.

Walker believes that visual art, just like music, may be appreciated viscerally – She believes there is a seamless transition between music and her art.

The University of The Bahamas presents the 14th Annual Anatol Rodgers Memorial Lecture featuring Professor Sunn m’ Cheaux, Gullah Teacher in the African Language Programme at Harvard University. He will present on the topic of the benefits and costs of Creolization as Cultural Preservation in the Context of Colonization.

The event opens at 7pm at the Harry C. Moore Library and Information Centre Auditorium at the University of The Bahamas.

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An eclipse is an obscuring of light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and its source of illumination. It is a type of coming together – an overlapping, shadowing, crossing-over of something and another.

This new body of work by Bahamian artists Max Taylor and John Cox explores a kind of intersection, where the joining of artists, practices, ideas, material, and imagery brilliantly demonstrate the endless possibilities of art-making and its ability to overlap time and time again.

Eclipse opens at The Current: Baha Mar Gallery & Art Center tomorrow, Friday, November 22nd from 6pm–9pm.

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The Bahamas National Trust (BNT) is celebrating 60 years this year and is happy to open its gates yet again to their Annual Christmas Jollification. The festival will feature unique handmade arts and crafts, delicious food, a special children’s crafts and games area and a selection of holiday spirits.

Jollification is one of the most anticipated events of the social calendar year and it supports the BNT’s Retreat Garden and provides a kick-off to the holiday season.

Entrance fee for adult non-members: $10, adult members: $5, children (5–17 yrs): $3, and children under 5 are free.

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The ACE Diabetes Health Expo is FREE and OPEN to the public. EVERYONE is welcomed!

There will be a lot happening and being given away: prizes and giveaways • games • grand raffle • educational booths • product booths • physician booths • healthy cooking demonstration • health presentations • relaxation & wellness demonstrations • free routine testing, for blood pressure, cholesterol, etc. PLUS free health screenings for sleep apnea; foot screening; vision screening; dental screening; physiotherapy assessment…and so much more. The theme is KNOW YOUR NUMBERS. All aspects of diabetes and the prevention of diabetes are covered, as well as other chronic health conditions plaguing the Bahamian public.

KISS FM Radio DJ Naughty is the emcee and it promises to be an entertaining, resourceful, educational, FUN event open to all ages.

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Building on the resounding success of the Nassau Music Society’s (NMS) 50th Anniversary Season Finale Concert which featured and all-Bahamian programme, NMS is thrilled to present the First Annual Bahamian Showcase as part of their annual concert series.

Featured groups include: Bahamas Music Academy, musical highlights from Shakespeare in Paradise, the University of The Bahamas Concert Choir and Bahamas Rhythm ‘n’ Youth. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see a diverse line-up of top Bahamian talent performing back to back in one concert. FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY! Come early and enjoy the gallery and a complimentary glass of wine, generously provided by Young’s Fine Wines, served at intermission.

Jazz at Jacaranda presents its Christmas Special! Their roster of super talented musicians are performing gratis in order to raise money for children orphaned by Hurricane Dorian.

Special guest performances by fabulous singer Stazzie Appleyard who will be accompanied on piano by internationally renowned Johnny Schütten. Musical director Adrian D’Aguilar has planned a very different and exciting line up for you. It will include many of your favourite jazz musicians and more!

Space is limited, so do not delay in getting your tickets and reserving your table!
Email:jacarandanassau@gmail.com for ticket information.

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Gina Luree Smith is an emerging Bahamian ceramic artist, entrepreneur and cultural ambassador.

She is an accountant by day and a ceramicist by night and her mandate and purpose is to revive, preserve, educate and promote the culture of The Bahamas to the Bahamian and to the world.

“Refuge” was an ‘open call’ exhibition to all artists – irrespective of how their practice is defined – to think about Hurricane Dorian and its aftermath, this tragedy, and use it as therapy or an opportunity to reflect on how we as a people pull ourselves and bring the pieces back together. Many hearts in this nation have been splintered, but our collective spirits are now called to do the important work of healing, and be grounded even deeper in our communities and to our humanity. Exhibition opens Thursday, December 19th at 7pm. The event is free and open to the public.

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Local gallery to represent Bahamian artist at Miami Beach Art Fair

London-based Bahamian artist, Lynn Parotti, will be represented by the The Current: Baha Mar Gallery and Art Center at SCOPE Miami Beach Art Fair where they will be showcasing Parotti’s exhibition “2 DEGREES C” from December 3rd–8th.

If you are in the Miami Beach area during this time, please visit The Current’s booth (C19) on the sands of Ocean Drive and 8th Street.

Known for presenting groundbreaking contemporary work, SCOPE Miami Beach will welcome 134 diverse exhibitors at its beachfront pavilion.

CLICK HERE to view the works from Parotti’s upcoming show in Miami.
CLICK HERE to visit SCOPE Miami Beach 2019.

Call for Artwork from Young Artists

Submission Deadline: December 14th, 2019 at 6pm

After the overwhelming success of Furniture Plus’ first kids’ art competition, the home furnishings giant is hosting its second National Youth Art Competition and its open to children throughout The Bahamas, ages 8–18.

Last year’s competition attracted over two hundred talented entrants from across The Bahamas, with twenty young artists emerging as category winners.

This year’s expanded “Art From The Heart” competition will build on last year’s cumulative $5,000 prize package, and provide additional opportunities for positive exposure and skill development for the winners. The competition launched on Monday, September 9th and will close on Saturday, December 14th, 2019. Category winners will be selected and announced in January 2020, and their artwork showcased for family and friends at an official Art Showing hosted by NAGB in February 2020.

CLICK HERE for more details. Or email Furniture Plus at pac@furnitureplus.com or call 397-7587.

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