Cultural gongs awarded to artists preserving heritage
(CNS): Twelve people will be receiving awards next week in honour of their various contributions to the country’s arts and cultural legacy. The Cayman National Cultural Foundation’s 28th annual awards event takes place on Thursday, 17 February at the Harquail Theatre, where artists, fashion designers and other crafters will be recognised for their talent and expertise. The Arts and Culture Awards are given to those who have made a significant contribution to arts and culture or achieved a high-quality body of creative work.
This year the list includes Charles Long, Donna Bryan, Margaret Barwick, Natalie Urquhart, Jawara Alleyne, Ky-Mani Rudolph Davis III (posthumous), Yonier Powery Serrano, Simon Tatum, the Cayman Art Week Committee, Staff of the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands and Stoak’d (Marc & Pam Laurenson). While well-known and prolific visual artist Bendel Hydes will be given the Visionary Award.
Cultural and heritage organisations, as well as the general public, were asked to submit nominations for the CNCF Heritage Cross and Star for Creativity in the Arts. A CNCF-appointed committee ultimately chose the recipients. Nominations are open between January and September each year.
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What a monumental yawn. It’s the same as getting a gold star for your kindergarten finger painting.
Oh dear …. Kenneth, unfortunately this gets a asterix (*) next to mums award and that’s how its going to get recorded. Regardless of whether its justified, its going down as untimely and rather tone-deaf given your current ministerial role.
What is wrong with a fellow Caymanian winning a little recognition? She helped an art tied to Caymanian tradition and passing it on to the Caymanian youth. God help us, will this envy and jealousy never end?
Come on Kenneth … I’m sure Mom appreciates the gesture.. but, you must surely recall how unfavorably things tuned when Linford named the highway after himself? Maybe you were too young a pup then eh … it’s a surely a slippery slope to showing ones true character. U CAN DO BETTER
@1:44pm Wait isn’t it the CNCF making these awards not the Government or the Ministry of Tourism?
Correct me if I am wrong but I think the CNCF is a non-profit organization.
CNS..Are you able to clarify if these were awards organized by the Government and if the CNCF is an NPO? It might clear up a lot of the accusations.
CNS Note: The CNCF is a statutory authority. The governor did not organise these awards.
“Nepotism is a form of favoritism shown to acquaintances and family members” Hope this helps you Kenneth.
Wait ..what? surely Kenneth knows better than this?
No he doesn’t, that would imply the man has education, or at least some sense of appropriate behavior.
The Cultural awards are done by nominations from the public. Stop spreading propaganda. PS the ministers mother has been promoting and passing on HER and OUR culture for decades. Please don’t politicize this. Miss Donna deserves her award and should have been awarded years ago for her decades of thatch work and teaching classes and for always be passionate about the traditional arts.
This is the first I have heard she was involved in any type of arts and crafts. Maybe she was but certainly not at a level where she would get an award for it while many others more deserving of recognition were not even considered.
Mrs. Donna is always at Pirates Week. And works with CNCF at their summer camp for years too. The award is for how long you have worked in promoting the arts, I can’t vote for Mr Bryan but I don’t see why he couldn’t or shouldn’t nominate his mother for such an award if she deserves it?! There are a whole lot more artisans that should be awarded and people don’t even know about them, very we have to be responsible for the information that goes into our heads. A lot of young people worried about Kim Kardashion (or whoever) instead of their own culture.
Facts
Go to any major cultural event and she is weaving me plaiting her thatch baskets and hats. I think she does brooms too. She is often dressed in traditional garb.
She worked this fingers to the bone long before Kenneth was chasing around the PPM bus.
She earned it and deserves it as she is an artisan in her own right.
If you feel many others are worth recognition…then simply nominate them! You are allowed to do so.
These awards have been around for 30 years…yet it’s as if people live under a rock.
https://artscayman.org/national-arts-culture-awards-2/?_gl=1*p2fp01*_ga*MTA1NjkwMzQ1OC4xNjQ0NTI3NDg1*_ga_XGM8Q1QWFF*MTY0NDUyNzQ4NS4xLjAuMTY0NDUyNzQ4NS4w&_ga=2.124489354.1242672085.1644527485-1056903458.1644527485
Kenneth could have had countless people nominate her – try hush
and what is wrong with that? She is deserving.
10 @ 7:40 am – I’m a member of the public and don’t know that I had anything to do with nominating Ms. Bryan or anyone for these awards. I’ve lived in Cayman since before Donna Bryan moved here from the Brac. This is the first I’ve heard of Donna Bryan being involved in making thatch products and teaching that art. But then again, I don’t keep up with everything.
The public?
I didn’t see my option to vote, anyone else?
I didn’t say public voting…I said nomination from the public. Unna try so learn something yah now…
https://artscayman.org/national-arts-culture-awards-2/?_gl=1*p2fp01*_ga*MTA1NjkwMzQ1OC4xNjQ0NTI3NDg1*_ga_XGM8Q1QWFF*MTY0NDUyNzQ4NS4xLjAuMTY0NDUyNzQ4NS4w&_ga=2.124489354.1242672085.1644527485-1056903458.1644527485
Yawn.
Interesting that Donna wins a prize once her son becomes the Tourism Minister…
https://artscayman.org/national-arts-culture-awards-2/?_gl=1*p2fp01*_ga*MTA1NjkwMzQ1OC4xNjQ0NTI3NDg1*_ga_XGM8Q1QWFF*MTY0NDUyNzQ4NS4xLjAuMTY0NDUyNzQ4NS4w&_ga=2.124489354.1242672085.1644527485-1056903458.1644527485
The interesting part should be whether or not she is deserving and clearly she is..It is such a shame that we as Caymanians can only look to put each other down rather than finding ways to celebrate each other. We are our worst enemies. She should be judged on her own merit and not that of her son. My two cents!
Guess Alden would never have given her one..