Are you looking for a summer camp for your kids in Kingston, Jamaica? Check out Create & Code! Your kids will learn about Photography for 3D Modeling, Graphic Design, Digital Storytelling, 3D Printing, Python programming, Augmented Reality, and more.

Create & Code caters to kids ages 9 - 16. Packages start at just $8,500 JMD per week for UWI staff and students, and $10,000 JMD per week for the general public.

Spaces are limited, so register here now! Give your child an experience they won’t forget.

New Podcast Episode Alert!

Listen to our newest podcast episode now! Preserving the Caribbean’s Built Heritage tells the story of people and organizations fighting to preserve our architectural heritage.

The Caribbean People Podcast is a collection of stories from and about ordinary Caribbean people, playing critical roles in the production, preservation and sharing of knowledge about Caribbean life, history and culture. The podcast shares stories from people and groups working in the areas of history and culture, environmental health, environmentalism and climate justice, anti-poverty community development, decolonial education and literacy, and information freedom, among others.

Check out this episode wherever you listen to podcasts. Whether you’re listening on a walk, during your commute, or while winding down, we’d love for you to tune in and be part of the journey. We upload every two weeks.

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Create & Code is coming to Jamaica! Interested in your child learning more about Photography for 3D Modeling, Graphic Design, Digital Storytelling, 3D Printing, Python programming, and even Augmented Reality? Registration is now open!

Create & Code caters to kids ages 9 - 16. Packages start at just $8,500 JMD per week for UWI staff and students, and $10,000 JMD per week for the general public.

Spaces are limited, so register here now! Give your child an experience they won’t forget.

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Join Create Caribbean Research Institute for Hidden Caribbean Figures: A 2-Day Research & Edit Event!

This hands-on workshop will guide participants in creating Wikipedia pages for Caribbean authors — helping bring their contributions to a global audience.

The Visualizing Caribbean Literature database catalogs more than 4000 titles by 500 authors. Register for our event to review and improve the database and create Wikipedia pages for our unknown and unseen literary greats! You will be sent guidelines once you register.

📅 March 5–6, 2026
🕘 Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
📍 UWI Mona Campus + Online
🔗 Register: https://bit.ly/caribbeanliterature
💡 Learn more about VCL: https://createcaribbean.org/vcl/

Let’s recover, celebrate, and rewrite the digital story of Caribbean literature together!

For more information on the Visualizing Caribbean Literature project, check out this video.

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Join Create Caribbean Research Institute for Hidden Caribbean Figures: A 2-Day Research & Edit Event!

This hands-on workshop will guide participants in creating Wikipedia pages for Caribbean authors — helping bring their contributions to a global audience.

The Visualizing Caribbean Literature database catalogs more than 4000 titles by 500 authors. Register for our event to review and improve the database and create Wikipedia pages for our unknown and unseen literary greats! You will be sent guidelines once you register.

📅 March 5–6, 2026
🕘 Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
📍 UWI Mona Campus + Online
🔗 Register: https://bit.ly/caribbeanliterature
💡 Learn more about VCL: https://createcaribbean.org/vcl/

Let’s recover, celebrate, and rewrite the digital story of Caribbean literature together!

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Join Create Caribbean Research Institute for Hidden Caribbean Figures: A 2-Day Research & Edit Event!

This hands-on workshop will guide participants in creating Wikipedia pages for Caribbean authors — helping bring their contributions to a global audience.

The Visualizing Caribbean Literature database catalogs more than 4000 titles by 500 authors. Register for our event to review and improve the database and create Wikipedia pages for our unknown and unseen literary greats!

📅 March 5–6, 2026
🕘 Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
📍 UWI Mona Campus + Online
🔗 Register: https://bit.ly/caribbeanliterature
💡 Learn more about VCL: https://createcaribbean.org/vcl/

Let’s recover, celebrate, and rewrite the digital story of Caribbean literature together!

New Podcast Episode

Check out our new podcast episode, Creating Caribbean Archives. In this episode, we talk to women working to preserve Caribbean culture and knowledge using different platforms.

The Caribbean People Podcast is a collection of stories from and about ordinary Caribbean people, playing critical roles in the production, preservation and sharing of knowledge about Caribbean life, history and culture. The podcast shares stories from people and groups working in the areas of history and culture, environmental health, environmentalism and climate justice, anti-poverty community development, decolonial education and literacy, and information freedom, among others.

Whether you’re listening on a walk, during your commute, or while winding down, we’d love for you to tune in and be part of the journey.

DLOC Workshop Series

Please join the Digital Library of the Caribbean for their Spring 2026 workshop series, focused on copyright, digitization, oral history, and ethical approaches to digital libraries.

More info on the series, including how to register and receive Zoom links, is available here.

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Join Create Caribbean Research Institute for Hidden Caribbean Figures: A 2-Day Research & Edit Event!

This hands-on workshop will guide participants in creating Wikipedia pages for Caribbean authors — helping bring their contributions to a global audience.

The Visualizing Caribbean Literature database catalogs more than 4000 titles by 500 authors. Register for our event to review and improve the database and create Wikipedia pages for our unknown and unseen literary greats!

📅 March 5–6, 2026
🕘 Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
📍 UWI Mona Campus + Online
🔗 Register: https://bit.ly/caribbeanliterature
💡 Learn more about VCL: https://createcaribbean.org/vcl/

Let’s recover, celebrate, and rewrite the digital story of Caribbean literature together!

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The Caribbean People Podcast is a collection of stories from and about ordinary Caribbean people, playing critical roles in the production, preservation and sharing of knowledge about Caribbean life, history and culture. The podcast shares stories from people and groups working in the areas of history and culture, environmental health, environmentalism and climate justice, anti-poverty community development, decolonial education and literacy, and information freedom, among others.

Our second episode is titled “Telling the Caribbean Story with Rum”. Check it out wherever you listen to podcasts.

Whether you’re listening on a walk, during your commute, or while winding down, we’d love for you to tune in and be part of the journey. We upload every two weeks.

Congratulations to our team who graduated this week!

Congratulations to our Create Caribbean members on graduating from The University of the West Indies!

DLOC Workshop Series

Please join the Digital Library of the Caribbean for their Spring 2026 workshop series, focused on copyright, digitization, oral history, and ethical approaches to digital libraries.

More info on the series, including how to register and receive Zoom links, is available here.

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Create Caribbean Research Institute is excited to share that our new podcast, The Caribbean People Podcast, is officially live!

The Caribbean People Podcast is a collection of stories from and about ordinary Caribbean people, playing critical roles in the production, preservation and sharing of knowledge about Caribbean life, history and culture. The podcast shares stories from people and groups working in the areas of history and culture, environmental health, environmentalism and climate justice, anti-poverty community development, decolonial education and literacy, and information freedom, among others.

The Caribbean People Podcast is part of a larger oral history project and is produced by Create Caribbean Research Institute.

The first episode, “In Search of Tainos”, delves into the story of the Tainos. Though they were commonly thought to have been eradicated for centuries, the Taino people are forming communities within Jamaica as some groups trace their lineage to the indigenous tribe. The producers share the story of one such exploration of ancestry.

Whether you’re listening on a walk, during your commute, or while winding down, we’d love for you to tune in and be part of the journey—head to your favorite podcast platform and give it a listen today! We upload every two weeks.

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We extend our thanks to our Create Caribbean community around the world for your thoughts and support in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. While we are happy to report that the people and spaces of CCRI in Jamaica are safe with little physical and material impact from the storm, we will need some time to rest, reflect and recalibrate.

In that spirit, we will be postponing the Hidden Caribbean Figures edit event, scheduled for November 7-8, until further notice. A new date will be announced once we have completed our review and rescheduling process.

Hurricane Melissa reminds us: with climate crisis and disaster always looming in our Caribbean, it is imperative that we continue the work of preserving, protecting and restoring our Caribbean heritage with vigilance and foresight. We will be back very soon, working on our projects that hold this tenet at the core. Thanks for your understanding and we look forward to sharing this event with you very soon.

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Please be advised that our upcoming workshop has been postponed due to the hurricane forecast for Jamaica. We will notify you once a new date is set. We encourage everyone to prioritize safety and take all necessary precautions.

Join Create Caribbean for Hidden Caribbean Figures: A 2-Day Research & Edit Event!
This hands-on workshop will guide participants in creating Wikipedia pages for Caribbean authors — helping bring their contributions to a global audience.

🗓 Dates: November 7–8, 2025

🕘 Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

📍 Online & In-Person
🔗 Register: https://bit.ly/caribbeanliterature

💡 Learn more about VCL: https://createcaribbean.org/vcl/

Let’s recover, celebrate, and rewrite the digital story of Caribbean literature together!

Looking Through the Text: A Workshop on Voyant Tools

Join Create Caribbean for an exciting workshop on textual analysis in humanities research using Voyant Tools! Led by Dr. Schuyler Esprit, this session will show you how to explore and understand large amounts of text with powerful digital tools.

📅 Friday, October 24, 2025
📍 The Pelican Lab, Dept. of Library & Information Studies
🕝 10 AM - 12 PM
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✅ Join Online!

Call for Proposals

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal invites submissions on digital humanities and Caribbean literature.

This special issue of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal seeks articles, interviews, and digital project reviews on the critical use of digital humanities methodologies to deepen the study of Caribbean literary works.

Scholars in Caribbean literary studies have increasingly used digital tools for developing new approaches to archiving and analyzing Caribbean texts in response to challenges such as ephemerality, natural disasters, publishing barriers, accessibility issues, and colonial epistemologies. This special issue of Anthurium, the first born-digital Caribbean studies journal, aims to highlight the increasing importance of digital technologies in preserving access to Caribbean literary and historical materials. It also raises critical questions on how scholars leverage digital tools to engage with literary forms that extend beyond print, reshaping how we approach Caribbean storytelling.

Abstracts are due on December 1, 2025. Visit here for more information.

Paradise of Colors & Expressions Art Exhibition

🎨✨ Step into a Paradise of Colors and Expressions🌈🖌️

Join Waitukubuli Artist Association at Prevo Cinemall for an unforgettable Art Exhibition. Experience the spirit of Dominica brought to life through bold strokes, vibrant hues, and powerful expressions. Come witness creativity in full bloom, where art meets expression!

📍 Prevo Cinemall
📅 Oct 10th – Nov 14th, 2025
🕚 11am – 6pm daily (Closed Sundays)

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Join Create Caribbean for an exciting workshop on textual analysis in humanities research using Voyant Tools! Led by Dr. Schuyler Esprit, this session will show you how to explore and understand large amounts of text with powerful digital tools.

📅 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2025
📍 The Pelican Lab, Dept. of Library & Information Studies
🕝 10 AM - 12 PM

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Join Create Caribbean for an exciting workshop on textual analysis in humanities research using Voyant Tools! Led by Dr. Schuyler Esprit, this session will show you how to explore and understand large amounts of text with powerful digital tools.

📅 Thursday, October 16, 2025
📍 The Pelican Lab, Dept. of Library & Information Studies
🕝 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
OR
✅ Join Online!

Paradise of Colors & Expressions Art Exhibition

🎨✨ Step into a Paradise of Colors and Expressions🌈🖌️

Join Waitukubuli Artist Association at Prevo Cinemall for an unforgettable Art Exhibition. Experience the spirit of Dominica brought to life through bold strokes, vibrant hues, and powerful expressions. Come witness creativity in full bloom, where art meets expression!

📍 Prevo Cinemall
📅 Oct 10th – Nov 14th, 2025
🕚 11am – 6pm daily (Closed Sundays)

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Join Create Caribbean for a 2-hour workshop with Dr. Schuyler Esprit as we explore how history, culture, and ideas come alive through digital storytelling with maps.

Date: Friday, Sept 26
Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: UWI Mona Campus, Faculty of Humanities and Education, Sir Roy Augier Building, Room 29
Or join us online!

Learn more about Digital Humanities and GIS (Geographic Information Systems) while discovering new ways to connect stories to place.

Register here today!

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It’s not too late to register to attend online! Click this link to register!

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Join us for the 2025 Create Caribbean Research Symposium — a two-day showcase where our brilliant interns blend technology and storytelling to reimagine the region’s future.

Explore dynamic panels, lightning talks, interactive digital exhibits, and original projects — all led by emerging Caribbean thinkers using digital tools to amplify powerful stories and perspectives.

The symposium will be in the UWI Mona Main Library from June 26 - 27, 2025.

Whether you're on campus or online, don’t miss this inspiring celebration of creativity, culture, and innovation!

Register here today.

New Blog Post Alert

Meet Ciara Henry — a passionate Biology student with big dreams and an even bigger heart for the Caribbean! From countryside commutes to content creation, Ciara shares her inspiring journey as a Create intern—balancing school, work, and a deep commitment to preserving Caribbean knowledge through research and digital storytelling.

She’s currently working on the Waitikubuli Writers’ platform and learning what it really means to make a difference.

Read her full story here and discover how she’s navigating challenges, embracing growth, and building a future fueled by purpose.

Support the Dominica Robotics Team

We need your help to get our young innovators to the global stage!

The Dominica Robotics Team is preparing to represent our island at the FIRST Global Robotics Competition — but we can’t do it without you.

By donating, you’re investing in the future of STEM education, youth empowerment, and national pride. Every dollar helps get us one step closer to the competition!

✅ Here's how to donate:

1- Go to: first.global/donate
2- Choose your donation amount 💸
3- Select "Yes" under “Are you donating to a specific Team?”
4- Choose Dominica from the dropdown
5- Leave a message if you'd like
6- Hit Continue

Let’s rally behind our team and show the world what Dominica can do!

Create & Code Dominica 2025

Create & Code is back! Interested in your child learning more about robotics, graphic design, web development and more? Register your child today, ages 5 to 16! Create & Code is from July 7 to August 1, Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 4 PM at the Dominica State College Campus. Don’t miss out, register here today!

TCD XII - Call for Papers & Projects

The Caribbean Digital (TCD) has sought to create a generative, multidisciplinary space within which to engage critically with the digital as practice and as a historicized societal phenomenon, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities presented by the media technologies that ever more intensely reconfigure the social and geo-political contours of the Caribbean and its diasporas. In the twelfth iteration of this gathering, TCD is thrilled to continue these conversations via collaboration with the Early Caribbean Digital Archive, the Africana Studies Program, and the NULab for Humanities and Computational Social Science at Northeastern University.

TCD welcomes abstracts of 250-300 words in length. Abstracts should include name, academic affiliation, contact information, and short bios. For more information, visit their website.

Connect with Create Caribbean on:
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Join us for the 2025 Create Caribbean Research Symposium — a two-day showcase where our brilliant interns blend technology and storytelling to reimagine the region’s future.

Explore dynamic panels, lightning talks, interactive digital exhibits, and original projects — all led by emerging Caribbean thinkers using digital tools to amplify powerful stories and perspectives.

The symposium will be in the UWI Mona Main Library from June 26 - 27, 2025.

Whether you're on campus or online, don’t miss this inspiring celebration of creativity, culture, and innovation!

Register here today.

Connect with Create Caribbean on:
Facebook
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Twitter
Instagram
Website

We need your help to get our young innovators to the global stage!

The Dominica Robotics Team is preparing to represent our island at the FIRST Global Robotics Competition — but we can’t do it without you.

By donating, you’re investing in the future of STEM education, youth empowerment, and national pride. Every dollar helps get us one step closer to the competition!

✅ Here's how to donate:

1- Go to: first.global/donate
2- Choose your donation amount 💸
3- Select "Yes" under “Are you donating to a specific Team?”
4- Choose Dominica from the dropdown
5- Leave a message if you'd like
6- Hit Continue

Let’s rally behind our team and show the world what Dominica can do!

Create & Code Dominica 2025

Create & Code is back! Interested in your child learning more about robotics, graphic design, web development and more? Register your child today, ages 5 to 16! Create & Code is from July 7 to August 1, Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 4 PM at the Dominica State College Campus. Don’t miss out, register here today!

TCD XII - Call for Papers & Projects

The Caribbean Digital (TCD) has sought to create a generative, multidisciplinary space within which to engage critically with the digital as practice and as a historicized societal phenomenon, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities presented by the media technologies that ever more intensely reconfigure the social and geo-political contours of the Caribbean and its diasporas. In the twelfth iteration of this gathering, TCD is thrilled to continue these conversations via collaboration with the Early Caribbean Digital Archive, the Africana Studies Program, and the NULab for Humanities and Computational Social Science at Northeastern University.

TCD welcomes abstracts of 250-300 words in length. Abstracts should include name, academic affiliation, contact information, and short bios. For more information, visit their website.

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Create & Code is back! Interested in your child learning more about robotics, graphic design, web development and more? Register your child today, ages 5 to 16! Create & Code is from July 7 to August 1, Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 4 PM at the Dominica State College Campus. Don’t miss out, register here today!

Meet the Mentors: Community Partner Update

Behind every great robotics team is a group of dedicated mentors guiding, challenging, and cheering on our students every step of the way.

Today, we’re excited to introduce you to the incredible mentors supporting the Dominica Robotics Team! From engineers and programmers to educators and tech advocates, these individuals are the heart of our mission—fueling curiosity, fostering skills, and building confidence in our youth.

Their knowledge, time, and passion make the magic happen.

TCD XII - Call for Papers & Projects

The Caribbean Digital (TCD) has sought to create a generative, multidisciplinary space within which to engage critically with the digital as practice and as a historicized societal phenomenon, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities presented by the media technologies that ever more intensely reconfigure the social and geo-political contours of the Caribbean and its diasporas. In the twelfth iteration of this gathering, TCD is thrilled to continue these conversations via collaboration with the Early Caribbean Digital Archive, the Africana Studies Program, and the NULab for Humanities and Computational Social Science at Northeastern University.

TCD welcomes abstracts of 250-300 words in length. Abstracts should include name, academic affiliation, contact information, and short bios. For more information, visit their website.

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Create & Code is back! Interested in your child learning more about robotics, graphic design, web development and more? Register your child today, ages 5 to 16! Create & Code is from July 7 to August 1, Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 4 PM at the Dominica State College Campus. Don’t miss out, register here today!

New Community Partner - Dominica Robotics Team

Create Caribbean is thrilled to welcome the Dominica Robotics Team as our newest community partner! Together, we’re building brighter futures through STEM, innovation, and youth empowerment.

Follow along as we showcase the team’s inspiring journey and share how you can support or get involved! Let’s spark curiosity, creativity, and coding across Dominica!

New Intern Blog Post

New Blog Alert! Meet Ceon Thomas — a second-year intern at Create Caribbean whose journey started way back at our Create and Code Summer Camp! From learning photogrammetry and GIS mapping to overcoming creative blocks in a digital media project, Ceon shares an honest and inspiring reflection on growth, support, and skill-building during his internship.

Read the full blog post here!

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