Doongalik Studios Gears Up for Transforming Spaces 2013!

Transforming Spaces is back, Nassau!  One of the highlights of the Arts & Culture Calendar in The Bahamas, Transforming Spaces is an awesome artistic adventure.  Patrons are treated to an air-conditioned bus tour of several galleries on the island with featuring new artists & exhibitions uniquely for the annual event.  This year's tour, to be held on March 16th & 17th, 2013, features the following galleries:


Doongalik Studios
The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas
Antonius Roberts' Studio and Gallery at Hillside House
The D'Aguilar Art Foundation
Liquid Courage
Popopstudios International Center for the Visual Arts
Stingrae Studio
The Harry C. Moore Library & Information Centre at the College of The Bahamas

Tickets are available now at The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas and Doongalik Studios Art Gallery for $30.  Tickets normally sell out so be sure to purchase early!  See you on the bus!

For more information on Transforming Spaces, contact us at 242.394.1886 or at tspacesbah@gmail.com! 

Purchase Tickets at Doongalik Studios for UWC Fun'd'raiser!

The Bahamas National Committee (BNC) of United World College (UWC) is launching its first formal fundraising campaign in aid of their Scholar-Ambassador’s Scholarship Fund as they approach the close of their 40th year of service to students of The Bahamas. Entitled “The Spirit of The Bahamas” this unique fundraising event, which will be held under the distinguished patronage of the Governor General, Sir Arthur Foulkes and Lady Foulkes, will be officially launched on Friday, the 22nd of March at 6:30 pm at Doongalik Studios on historic Village Road.

The public is invited to join the UWC National Committee along with UWC alumni, their parents and supporters for an evening of ‘fun for the fund’! Patrons are encouraged to come casually dressed, prepared to be delightfully entertained by Bahamian bands, singers, and entertainers, scrumptiously fed with delicious Bahamian cuisine, and to participate in an evening of activities, games, dancing, prizes and surprises in true ‘down home’ Bahamian fashion, because the evening promises to be a lively one!

The United World College programme is an educational organization that was formed 50 years ago to offer high school students placements within 12 UWC colleges in 12 countries around the world in order to pursue a two year International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma. The IB is one of the most well regarded and widely known secondary school qualifications in the world and as such is accepted by the world’s most selective universities. All United World Colleges share the UWC Mission of “making education a force to unite, people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future”. Students who attend a UWC therefore have an amazing opportunity to participate in a positive, life-changing academic experience.

To date the BNC, which consists of 14 dedicated volunteers (7 of whom are alumni of the programme) has provided over 90 scholarships for Bahamian students to attend UWCs abroad. For the first thirty–six years of the BNC’s history one or two scholarships per year were funded through the kind assistance of donors. In the last four years scholarships and placements increased to four to five per year thanks to a generous grant from The Cable Cares Foundation, the substantial support provided by The Ministry of Education, and the sound management of the BNC’s finances.

The Committee’s ability to continue at this level, however, has been severely dampened due to the international economic conditions which have reduced the UWC’s scholarship offerings to The Bahamas. The need for the BNC to raise additional funds has become crucial and “The Spirit of The Bahamas” will be the BNC’s inaugural fund raising event.

Tickets are now available at Doongalik Studios, #20 Village Road and the public can visit the web site for more information.

How to Be A True-True Bahamian 2!

Esteemed writer and orator, Patricia Glinton-Meicholas launched the second edition of "How to Be A True-True Bahamian" at Doongalik Studios on February 17th, 2013.  This hilarious and introspective book explores the various aspects of our culture that make us laugh (and shake our heads) but also identify our unique characteristics.  Accompanied by the drawings of Neko Meicholas, this latest publication of Guanima Press is not to be missed!

Pictoral History & Memories of Nassau's Over-The-Hill Book Lanch A Success!

The long anticipated launch of Rosemary Clarice Hanna’s book, “Pictorial History and Memories of Nassau’s Over-The-Hill” will take place at Doongalik Studios, Village Road on Thursday, 28th February, 2013, from 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Rosemary was born on 22nd August 1942. She is the sixth of seven children born to Percival James and Leona Aurelia Hanna (née Butler). The author was born and grew up Over-The-Hill in New Providence at a time when relatives were within short walking distance and neighbours and friends socialized on their front porches. It was also a time when most people shared common values through the church, lodges, friendly societies and social clubs and took pride in keeping their surroundings clean.

Since retiring from a forty-year span in the financial services sector, Rosemary has been involved in the social outreach ministry of St. Agnes Anglican Church. The book, “Pictorial History and Memories of Nassau’s Over-The- Hill” came about as a result of her weekly travels throughout the old neighbourhood. She observed the most of the once lovely and immaculately maintained homes of her childhood had either disappeared or were in a state of disrepair. She noted that only a few of the homes remained as oases in the midst of decay and thought it important to record the Over-The-Hill story for those persons who remember and for future generations.

She began by taking photographs of the old houses and then developed the idea of telling stories about some of the families who occupied them. She thought it important to put a face to some of the families who lived in the area before they began to move out to the newly developed suburbs, and also to highlight the tremendous contributions that Over-The-Hill people made towards the development of The Bahamas.

The book paints a picture of what life was like in the Over-the-Hill area of Grant’s Town and surrounding areas on the Island of New Providence, The Bahamas, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century following Emancipation, when the area was settled by freed slaves. It includes a brief history of the settlement and development of the area and the role of the Church in that process. It also contains over 300 colour and black and white pictures of churches, homes and families and introduces some of the people who lived Over-The-Hill. Much of the information contained in the book was obtained from family members and friends as well as through interviews with more than eighty present and former Over-The-Hill residents to whom the author is very grateful for their enthusiastic support.