Natalie Hopkinson’s Distinguished Lecture on the Creative Arts

Guyana can benefit significantly if investors pump capital into the Creative Arts industry.

Dr. Natalie Hopkinson, a Howard University and University of Maryland graduate, and author of ‘A Mouth is Always Muzzled’, was the guest speaker at this year’s Republic Anniversary Distinguished Lecture held at the Umana Yana.

“It doesn’t cost anything to be creative, but you do need some help [from] outside,” she told the gathering. “They have been pulling all of the riches out of Guyana forever. So, it is a matter [of] where you have to agitate and make it go to places that reflect your values.”

Dr. Hopkinson delved extensively into Guyana’s pluralistic cultural society and the richness of its diversity.

“Art is about radical imagination, it is about imagining a future we cannot now see. It is not just about the poets and the painters, it is also for the women and men on the street. We are in trying times and we really need all hands on deck; no voice and no vision should be left behind,” she emphasised.

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