Ep. 27 - If We Don’t Build It, We Lose It: Culture, Power & the Infrastructure We’ve Ignored with Calibe Thompson
"You can celebrate culture all day… but if you don't build the institutions to hold it, it disappears."
Hosts Stacey Luces and Denise Williams sit down with Calibe Thompson, founder of Island SPACE Caribbean Museum, to discuss building lasting cultural institutions — not just celebrating culture.
Calibe shares how her work grew from media and storytelling into creating the only pan-Caribbean museum of its kind, and the responsibility to preserve Caribbean history beyond stereotypes. She opens up about the financial and emotional pressure of sustaining a cultural institution, and the gap…
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