Your April update from the Cayman National Cultural Foundation – “‘pause’ button on our live physical activities”
| While we at the Cayman National Cultural Foundation are holding down the ‘pause’ button on our live physical activities, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, we’d like the community to know that our dedicated CNCF team is working from our home bases, to keep you updated and engaged, and to offer activities in which you can involve your entire family. The fact that the country enjoys less physical contact, does not mean that culture, heritage and the arts are on a ‘hard curfew’. As long as life courses through our veins, culture and the arts will survive. This has been the case since time immemorial. This pandemic experience, however long it lasts, will engender cultural changes within our society (and the world) that will quickly become integral to our behaviour. Further, it will offer all artists and cultural workers wide ranging experiences that will become material for a new phase of creative endeavours. CNCF knows that at a time like this, there are some who will perceive the arts to be less than ‘essential’. We ask them to think deeply, after satisfying the need for physical sustenance and shelter, about the sort of existence the human race would have without books, music and movies and art, and all of the offerings from creatives here and around the world. In this context, CNCF will continue to work to provide creative outlets for everyone; please follow our posts. CNCF cannot overstate the terrific response from our Government, His Excellency Governor Martin Roper, medical staff and all of the private citizens who are working feverishly behind the scenes and around the clock, to keep all of Cayman safe from COVID-19. We reiterate government’s call to “STAY HOME, CAYMAN” and add our own slogan, “Stay connected to CNCF.” Thank you and please stay safe. Henry Muttoo Artistic Director |
