CC Book Club at NatureCulture’s “Rewilding”
CC Book Club has been invited by NatureCulture to take part in the virtual Authors & Artists Festival: Rewilding on Saturday, 4 November from 4:30pm GMT and we want you there!
Our 60-minute discussion will be centred around words and their power to define, change, and communicate culture, and to create ties to home. Antonio Arch, CC Book Club Lead, along with Cayman Connection’s Rita Estevanovich and Ashlea Smith will speak at the event which also offers a Poet’s Retreat, ways you can support the arts community and the environment and more. Details in the link above.
Cayman Connection welcomes all members to attend Rewilding, and to join Book Club. Below you will find links to Antonio’s latest recommendations. To learn more about Book Club, click here.
Antonio Arch
CC Book Club Lead Antonio Arch has written and edited content for industry, non-profit, travel, lifestyle, government, and the third sector. His writing has appeared in Mondaq, The Caribbean Writer, Medium, Cayman Marl Road, and the Camana Bay Times.
He recently completed an MFA at the Manchester Writing School, and is currently a PhD researcher in the School of Arts & Humanities at the University of Huddersfield, where he co-teaches a course on contemporary life writing.
Rita Estevanovich
Programme Manager at Cayman Connection, Rita Estevanovich completed a BA in Liberal Studies (International Relations, Business Admin, Spanish) from the University of Central Florida, and has worked across several industries including television (news), radio, arts and cultural development and tourism. She enjoys writing and editing, and sat on the editorial board for Visit Cayman Islands magazine for a two years.
Rita is a voice artist and actor-performer with a Certificate in Acting for Film from NYFA (LA), and an MA in Actor Performer Training from London’s Rose Bruford College. When not working and performing, Rita travels with her son to enjoy natural treasures and places of historic interest as members of National Trust (UK), Woodland Trust and English Heritage.
Ashlea Smith
Executive Director at Cayman Connection, Ashlea Smith has worked in the charitable, not-for-profit space since 2015. Ashlea extends her community development experience to her overseas work in Zambia, where she has worked on grassroot development programmes using sport as a tool to support the education and development of young people and their communities.
Outside of her professional life Ashlea co-hosts her own podcast ‘Melanin and Me’, volunteers her time to contribute her Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) expertise to UK’s Basketball England EDI Committee and expresses her entrepreneurial spirit whist running her own Personal Training business ‘AJ Fitness’. READ MORE