"Transforming Humanity Through Artistry"
Adventures in the Arts is a registered non-profit organization that provides interactive edutainment experiences for all generations. It uses performing arts, visual arts, multimedia arts and culinary arts to share stories about human existence. We aim to provide the premier live and multimedia edutainment experiences locally and globally through exposing multigenerational audiences to the vastness and interconnectedness of the artistic world.
Our Story
This concept was founded and developed by Dion Cunningham in 2016 while he was still completing his graduate studies. Originally called Adventures in Western Art Music, it was seen as a unique way to introduce classical music to the next generation of musicians and audiences from his country - the Bahamas. Thus he imagined Adventures in Western Art Music as a field trip experience for children and youth only to truly create the first young people’s concert series locally.
The initial concerts were a success and over 300 kids from 15 schools attended. This was enough to encourage Dion to continue this work annually as an edutainment (education + entertainment) outreach. It was the first event of its kind in the Bahamas with this focus and remains so to this day.
This work has now expanded beyond music to include other performing, visual, multimedia and, for the first time in its history, culinary art forms supplemented with multidisciplinary original films, kaleidoscopic lighting, sound effects and costumes. Hence the slight change in name to what is now known as Adventures in the Arts. This work now collaborates with some of the finest talent locally and internationally. This talent spans beyond the stage to include professionals in writing, narration, film, lighting, live and recorded audio production.
In 2024, Adventures in the Arts celebrated 9 years of edutainment in our community. Since our inception, we have touched over 3000 children and youth in North America with our transformative work. It is the vision of the Adventures in the Arts team to see its work become part of the global artistic and educational landscape.
Adventures in the Arts - 'At a Glance'
Video Clips 2024
Carnival of the Animals - 'The Swan'
Featuring Romel Shearer, this piece was part of a multimedia discussion about animal migrations, ornithology and cross-pollination between performing art forms.
A Woman Scorned - original poem
Featuring Alisha Wells, this piece was part of a multimedia discussion about love, heartbreak and the ways life in the modern age have changed male-female interactions.
Gretchen Am Spinnrade - Franz Schubert
Featuring Danielle Lee, this piece was part of a multimedia discussion about the varied ways one processes heartbreak.
Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saens
Featuring Evelyn Brandes and Swann Talent Dance, this piece was part of a multimedia discussion about the supernatural, attitudes towards death and the afterlife and cultural differences in funeral celebrations.
Night - Edwin McArt
Featuring Ty Chiko, this piece was part of a multimedia discussion about the beauty of nighttime, fears about nighttime and ideas on how communities can reclaim evening hours.
Four Seasons of Buenos Aires - 'Autumn'
Featuring Cameron Pratt, Romel Shearer, Shericka Ferguson and Vernal Adderley, this piece was part of a multimedia discussion about couples dancing, its history in Argentina, how dance could be polarizing and its value to physical and mental wellness.
Mulan - 'Reflection'
Featuring Danielle Lee, this piece was part of a multimedia discussion about the courage to be oneself, to leave the familiar, and examples throughout history who demonstrates such courage.
Courage to Leave the Familiar - original poem
Featuring Shadelle Major, this piece was part of a multimedia discussion about the fight to be 'normal' or to take the road less traveled..
Piano Quintent in F minor/To Fight or Fall
Featuring Evelyn Brandes, Cameron Pratt, Chelsey Green and Romel Shearer, this piece was part of a multimedia discussion and silent film about the forms of bullying and how to rise above it.
Game of Thrones - 'Main Theme'
Featuring the full instrumental cast, this piece was part of a multimedia discussion about the geopolitics between developed and developing countries.
Picture Gallery 2024
