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SEXYPINK - Trinidad and Tobago Photographer Abigail Hadeed’s recollections of her photoshoot with Black Stalin. Her curiosity and genuine desire to capture her own culture produced these stunning portraits.

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Abigail Hadeed on Photographing the Stars

“We Can Make it IF We Try” In the Mid 80’s I started photographing traditional mas and the steel bands in and around Port of Spain. I was young, in my early 20’s with a passion and desire to learn and explore Trinidad and it’s culture. 

On my own I began to explore South East POS, Laventille, Belmont and the panyards the traditional mas camps, Minshall, you name it I did it.  

 followed my instinct and allowed things to unfold. At the time I did not have a plan and or know that 3 decades would just fly by and along the way I had and have worked with the Regions best and greatest. I have much to be thankful for, being born at the time i have, the people who let me in, and the spaces and people that fed my soul.

 The Black Stalin was definitely one of those memorable shoots at the studio on Long Circular Road.  Black Stalin circa 1991

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~Sexypink~  Covid-19 has done a number on us all, but in particular the creative sector. The team at EAST YARD has thus embarked on our EAST SPACE project that has seen us transforming our indoor spaces into flexible creative co-working spaces. EAST SPACE is the perfect place for creative professionals who need a short-term physical location for meetings, administrative work and everything in between. EAST SPACE offers unique working spaces in a vibrant and energetic neighborhood. The different possibilities and packages ensures the ideal space for your creative business. Easily transformed, EAST SPACE is also the ideal location for your intimate creative events of all types.

Package/Space 

1: A unique meeting and event space *Meetings - 10 people; conference style *Events - 20 people; standing/sitting theatre style *Equipped with a washroom and WiFi *$80 an hour Visit our website or message eastyard.cfaff@gmail.com for more info. Space #2, our longer term dedicated, shared workspace is almost rea

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Culture is not only beneficial to cities; in a deeper sense, it’s what cities are for. A city without poets, painters and photographers is sterile.

-Rebecca Solnit

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EAST YARD

A Home for the Arts - EAST YARD is a project managed by the Caribbean Fashion and Arts Feature Festival. Several examples worldwide have shown the profound and wide-ranging impacts that place-based arts initiatives can have on the social, cultural, and economic life of communities, addressing issues such as discrimination, social inequity, or crime. EAST YARD is following this template and has so being created to serve as a community hub to connect and engage the local community on a regular and ongoing basis. A physical outdoor, multi-purpose space managed by the Caribbean Fashion and Arts Feature Festival, EAST YARD is an initiative that has brought together other creative entities to work on programming that can be executed at the space to create new opportunities for the local community by championing creativity in all its forms.Caribbean Fashion and Arts Feature Festival has transformed an unused backyard of a commercial building into a pioneering space.

*Amenities On Site:Open air work and event space.    

*10 x 15 performance stage    

*10 x 12 outdoor screen    

*Outdoor Seating capacity for 505.    

*Outdoor Standing room capacity 1506.    

*Indoor-working/event space    

 *Ilki Place - The boutique that houses the EAST YARD Collective of Artisans

*Artist in Residence apartment/Airbnb 

*Other amenities on the premises include a  graphic & print shop and a music studio & school.