caribBEING is
A thriving cultural venture illuminating the Caribbean experience and communities in Greater New York City and around the world. We work at the intersection of Culture x Community x Commerce.MADE IN BROOKLYN
100% CARIBBEAN
BLACK OWNED
cULTURE
How do we have a Caribbean on our own terms after a difficult, divided history? Exploring all of our identities beyond the tourism complex means slowly bridging and decolonizing our collective Caribbean experience.
In practice, this was already innate in caribBEING’s growth: one-time experiences, site-specific installations, and providing alternative spaces for these conversations to happen.
COMMERCE
Handcrafted here and back home. cariBEING creates unique + unconventional collections for those who crave authenticity + cultural relevance + who support local ideas and makers.
COMMUNITY
In 2017 caribBEING spearheaded the naming of Little Caribbean to recognize, celebrate and foster the contributions of Caribbean-Americans in New York City and the neighborhood of Flatbush as a center for culture, community and commerce.
caribBEING is an inclusive hub for creativity featuring artists and makers from Cuba, Guyana, Haiti, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Jamaica, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Martinique, France, Canada and others.
CARIBBEING HOUSE
caribBEING House is a unique and inspired multipurpose mobile art + cultural + market space that reflects the cultural heritage of Brooklyn’s Caribbean Diaspora.
CARIBPOLITAN
Caribpolitan describes people with roots in the Caribbean, living in a metropolis anywhere in the world. It is a Diasporic hybrid identity with the strength of Caribbean ancestry combined with the energy of the future.
I Am / Yo Soy / Je Suis / Mwen Caribbeing
Our Unity Flags, handcrafted by artisans in Matènwa, Haiti illustrates our ethos, the Caribbean is a region with a multiplicity of people, cultures and languages.