SVGAMP continues public performances under Canada Project

Fresh from the hosting of a series of successful songwriting and music production in November, 2024, the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Association of Music Professionals Inc. (SVGAMP) said it is staging several public performances from February 23-March 1, 2025 under a project supported by the Government of Canada, through the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI).

SVGAMP said in a release that the aim of these free public performances is to raise awareness about sexual and gender-based violence through the arts.

Over the course of three months, aspiring Vincentian musicians and performers participated in a series of workshops facilitated by gender awareness activist, Ancelma Morgan Rose, Dr. Cleve Scott, Maxwell ‘Tajoe’ Francis, St. Clair ‘Mitch’ Lewis, Grantley ‘Ipa’ Constance, Robert ‘Patches’ Knights, and Selwyn Patterson. These workshops introduced a diverse cohort to aspects of songwriting, composition, stagecraft, and studio production. Project participants identified ways to use their music and performances to address and dismantle harmful cultural norms and attitudes towards gender, the organisation also said in its release.

The Canada Fund project is concluding with a series of live performances spread across several of the communities which hosted the workshops. SVGAMP, under its newly elected executive, said it is inviting members of the public to attend the public performances.

The first and second performances were held in Georgetown, and Heritage Square on February 21 and 23, 2025 respectively.

On February 28, 2025, at 6:00 p.m, a performance is carded to take place at the Square in Rose Hall; and on March 1, 2025 the final public performance will be held at the Curator’s House at the Botanic Gardens.