WHO WE ARE
Rooted in Jamaica, connected to the world, Project Hummingbird Ltd. creates opportunities through arts, culture, education, and global collaboration.
Our Story
Project Hummingbird Ltd. was born from lived experience: moving between countries, cultures, and artistic communities and seeing both the opportunities and the barriers that shape who gets seen, supported, and connected. Its founder, Adrian Wanliss, built his career across Jamaica, the Caribbean, and Europe as a performer, cultural worker, and arts manager. Through that journey, one thing became clear: artists need more than talent. They need support, networks, advocacy, and real opportunities to grow, collaborate, travel, and be recognised on their own terms.
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From this understanding, Project Hummingbird Ltd. was created as a platform rooted in Jamaica and connected to the wider world. It supports artistic exchange, cultural mobility, and meaningful cross-border collaboration built on reciprocity, dignity, and long-term impact. At its heart, the organisation works to bridge Jamaica and the diaspora, local practice and international opportunity, and artistic excellence and social purpose.
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Project Hummingbird Ltd. believes cultural exchange should never move in only one direction. Jamaican and Caribbean artists are not just participants in global conversations; they are leaders, innovators, and cultural ambassadors with important perspectives to share. The organisation creates pathways that are internationally connected and locally relevant so that artists, communities, and young people can benefit from exchange in accessible and transformative ways.
Our Mission
Project Hummingbird Ltd. exists to foster meaningful cultural connections through the arts. Rooted in Jamaica and working internationally, the organisation creates opportunities for artistic exchange, mobility, training, and collaboration that strengthen creative practice and widen access to global networks.
Its mission is not only to support artists in moving across borders but also to create the conditions in which those exchanges can have lasting value—for the artists involved, for the communities they engage, and for the wider cultural ecosystems they touch.
Through performance, education, partnership-building, and community-oriented projects, Project Hummingbird Ltd. uses the arts as a tool for dialogue, development, visibility, and connection.
Our Vision
Project Hummingbird Ltd. envisions a future in which Jamaican and Caribbean artists are more visible, better supported, and fully connected to regional and international opportunities. It sees a cultural landscape where exchange is reciprocal, where the diaspora is engaged as a creative bridge, and where communities can access the benefits of artistic practice not as a luxury, but as a vital part of social and cultural life.
The long-term vision is to help build a more connected cultural future—one in which creativity is recognised as a force for education, leadership, identity, and transformation and where Jamaica is positioned not at the margins of international arts discourse but as an active and influential contributor to it.
