- CNCF Law passed 1984
- Helen Harquail donates land and funds to build the F.J. Harquail Cultural Centre; Construction begins 1983
- Harquail main theater officially opens with a production of “The Sound of Music” 1986
- National Playwriting Workshops and Competition launched 1990
- CNCF Artistic Grants program established 1990
- CNCF Annual Arts & Culture Awards inaugurated 1990
- First production of Rundown 1991
- CNCF takes Cayman arts to International Festival of the Arts in Rugby, England 1996
- CNCF takes Cayman arts to Aberdeen International Youth Festival, Scotland, 2005
- CNCF takes Cayman arts to all but one staging of the Caribbean Festival of the Arts during the past two decades
- CNCF hosts Carib Arts International Exhibition 1994
- “My Markings…the Art of Gladwyn K. Bush” published 1994
- Cayfest, The National Festival of the Arts, launched 1995
- Will Jackson’s memoirs “Smoke Pot Days” published 1997
- Radley Gourzong & the Happy Boys music released in 1993
- “Nuttin’ As Sweet,” classic country and western songs by Roy Bodden released in 1995
- More than 100 of Miss Lassie’s paintings purchased for the National Collection 1998
- Gimistory International Storytelling Festival launched 1998
- First Cayman Islands Arts & Culture Journal “Foundation” published 2001
- Frank McField’s plays “Time Longer Dan Rope” and “Downside Up” published 2000
- Leonard Dilbert’s poetry “Grown From This Ground” published 2003
- F.J. Harquail Cultural Centre rebuilt and reopened in 2007 after the devastation of Hurricane Ivan in 2004
- Roy Bodden’s “Stories My Grandfather Never Told Me” published 2007
- Young at Arts performing arts program established 1996, offering music, dance and drama instruction for talented youth and multidisciplinary arts activities for youngsters during its Summer Arts Camp
- Young Image Makers short film competition introduced in 2010
- Cayman Islands Folk Singers established 2009
- Mind’s Eye, the home of visionary artist Gladwyn K. Bush, known as Miss Lassie, opens to the public 2012
- Distinguished lectures and workshops by Noble Laureate Derek Walcott, Prof. Rex Nettleford, JA Roy Bodden, Leonard Dilbert, Dr. Hollis Liverpool aka “The Mighty Chalkdust”, Leroy Clarke, Barbara Gloudon, Poet Laureate of Jamaica Mervin Morris, among others.
- Double re-mastered CD of Radley Gourzong & the Happy Boys, also featuring “Aunt” Julia Hydes, “Traditional Music of the Cayman Islands” released 2010
- Red Sky at Night launched in 2013 as part of Cayfest
Cultural icons Gladwyn “Miss Lassie” Bush, left, and Aunt Julia Hydes with Patrick Broderick Jr.
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