Arts for the 21st Century

Kacy Garvey

Kacy Garvey

Kacy Garvey is an award-winning poet who has performed at various concerts and conferences as well as on radio and television programmes across Jamaica. She self-published Undone and Water Jar in 2014 and 2018, respectively: the first and only Christian poetry albums in Jamaica. She was the event coordinator and moderator of the Poetry Society of Jamaica, and was a presenter at the 2023 Rex Nettleford Arts Conference. Kacy is the founder of JAIKU, a non-profit organisation that aims to establish and empower a cadre of professional poets to sharpen, market and deploy their skills for a wide range of clientele.

São José

December 3rd, 1794 Portuguese ship leaving the coast of Mozambique 7,000-mile voyage to Maranhão, Brazil. Names, faces, jobs, talents, goals, skills, ideas, hobbies, friends, families, hopes, dreams ...now slaves