OMG Digital Magazine OMG Issue 313 14th June 2018 | Page 32

OMG Digital Magazine | 313 | Thursday 14 June 2018 • PAGE 32 Features Rachael N. Collymore is a passionate creative strategist, publicist and artist manager. As the founding Director of Power Media Hub Co. Ltd., it is her intention to contribute to the creative landscape and innovative systems of operation. A core part of this is to shine a light on the area of intellectual property rights, as it relates to the creative industries/orange economy and sustainability for the sector. She is also the founder of the non- profit organization, Poetic Vibes Arts Foundation which is dedicated to the advancement of artists and building social awareness through the arts. For the past ten (10) years she has coordinated and facilitated workshops and events to fulfill this mandate. Such initiatives include The Young Artists for Change Apprenticeship programme (2017), The Artisans for Change TT Festival (part of the 100TPC global movement for change) and Synergia: a fusion of Art, Jazz & Poetry. As a writer of poetry, Rachael has used this medium to channel her creative energies to raise the level of awareness and standard of the arts in Trinidad & Tobago. Her poetry has been published in a few anthologies, most recently - ‘World of Change’, ‘She Sex’ and ‘360 degrees’. She has also written for CPC Women in Business, Arc Magazine, and other publications. She is the former VP and current Board Secretary on the Board of the Circle of Poets of T&T and part of the Steering Committee for the Poet Laureate of Trinidad & Tobago programme. Her desire is to see artists use their talent for social good and to see a viable and sustainable music and creative industry.