East Yard Enterprises

25/08/2026

COMMUNITY POWER: LOCAL ACTION, GLOBAL IMPACT

🎬 Episode 1: What Makes a Project Sustainable?

We’re excited to introduce Community Power: Local Action, Global Impact, a new multi-part series celebrating 30 years of the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP), within the United Nations Development Programme.

Community Power: Local Action, Global Impact was produced by GEF SGP in creative collaboration with Art By Creative Design, RJ LiveTT Productions and Esst Yard Enterprises.

Follow the journey as we celebrate 30 years of communities building a more sustainable Trinidad and Tobago. 🌎💚

COMMUNITY POWER: LOCAL ACTION, GLOBAL IMPACT 🎬 Episode 1: What Ma...

21/08/2026

We can’t wait to welcome all of you!

19/08/2026

Come nah, let me show you what we have going on at the Joki One x East Yard mas camp!

This is where Flower Power: Hippie Sailors 2027 is coming to life.

Walk through with me and check out the different sections — the costumes, the colours, the Monday Wear, and all the little details that make each look come together.

We’re mixing that free-spirited Flower Power vibe with the good old tradition of Sailor Mas — and trust me, we have something for everybody.

So whether you’re looking for something bold, something sexy, something comfortable, or something to really turn heads...

we have you covered.

Come down, take a look, pick your section, and get ready to sail with us.

Joki One x East Yard.

Flower Power: Hippie Sailors 2027.

Make Mas, Not War.

13/08/2026

Stories bring us closer. And this August, East Yard is making space for many of them.

In the latest edition of the East Yard Enterprises' AMPLIFY Connect: For Good. newsletter, Founder and Cultural Director we're reflecting on the power of storytelling to build community — and on an exciting month ahead at East Yard.

📚 On Saturday, 22 August, Bocas Lit Fest brings **Bocas Arima** to East Yard for a full day of literature, spoken word, workshops, storytelling, books and conversation.

📸 The day will also mark the launch of **Arima is Love**, a new photography series from Kevon Gareth Foderingham documenting the creatives, changemakers and entrepreneurs shaping the Borough and what they love most about Arima.

🌴 East Yard also celebrates a new chapter for *AMPLIFY Connect, with the amnouncement of grant support from the Caribbean Culture Fund for the **AMPLIFY Connect: Creative Social Enterprise Exchange**, welcoming literary practitioners from Barbados and Jamaica to Arima for creative residencies rooted in cultural exchange, community and enterprise.

It’s a big month in de Yard — connected by one simple idea: great community is built one conversation, one collaboration and one story at a time.

Read the August newsletter and discover what’s happening in de Yard. 💛

11/08/2026

Big shout out to our AMPLIFY Connect: Creative Social Enterprise Fellow, Jordan Smith of Accent Games.

He's been making the media rounds for World Steelpan Day, with stops Freedom 106.5 FM and Trinidad and Tobago Today discussing Ramajay: Riddim Rabbit! The Steelpan Video Game - his local steelpan themed video game.

Riddim Rabbit is recognized as the world's first steelpan-themed rhythm video game!
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Designated globally by the United Nations General Assembly on August 11, World Steelpan Day 2026 is highlighting Trinidad and Tobago’s national instrument under the theme “Rhythm and Rise: Youth. Discipline. Culture. Community”

Congrats Jordan and team!

From Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 to the World 🌎

10/08/2026

02/08/2026

📢*Announcement* 📢

We're pleased to announce that East Yard Enterprises has been selected as a grantee by Caribbean Culture Fund from their recent Call 5, focused on Residencies and Fellowships.

The grant will support our AMPLIFY Connect: Creative Social Enterprise Exchange - a short-term literary residency hosted by East Yard Enterprises in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago. The programme will invite two spoken word artists and literary practitioners from Barbados and Jamaica for two separate immersive creative and community engagement residencies focused on developing new literary works that reflect the shared Caribbean experience.

The residency is designed to extend the philosophy of East Yard’s AMPLIFY Connect Creative Social Enterprise Fellowship, which supports creatives in developing socially impactful ventures that merge artistic expression with sustainable business practices.

Through this exchange, the selected artists will be housed and supported at the East Yard, Arima’s Creative and Cultural Campus while developing new poetry, prose, or hybrid literary works that explore Caribbean identity, shared social challenges, and possible community-based solutions. The fellowship will also encourage artists to translate their creative output into future revenue generating creative social enterprise products, such as publications, performances, digital storytelling formats, or educational content.

Stay tuned, for the exciting rollout in the upcoming weeks.

Thanks again to the Caribbean Culture Fund for the support on this initiative.