Biennials and Art Practices of the Caribbean” brought a wide array of experiences, projects and concerns into focus. The event was hosted by Caribbean InTransit in partnership with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) on June 28th 2012 at the CFCH as a fringe event to the Folklife festival. It was also in celebration of Caribbean-American Heritage month and listed in the calendar of the Allspice Festival of Arts & Humanities. The event included presentations via videoconference and invited respondents to submit three questions to moderators for advance consideration facilitating a wider cross-section of voices and issues from across the Caribbean to be heard. The richness of the presentations and questions by audience members present in person left little room to engage all of these questions, however they remain as effective structural points around which the conversation can be furthered via social media.
The four panels were designed in an effort
