About East Yard
Founded in 2017 as a creative community space in Arima, East Yard Enterprises evolved in 2021 into an independent creative social enterprise committed to merging creativity, community impact, cultural exchange, and commerce.

Creativity
Creativity is at the core of East Yard’s work. Our initiatives span curating exhibitions and events, providing creative strategy consulting for nonprofits, book publishing, and co-producing the Joki One x East Yard Mas Band — a collaborative Carnival venture reimagining Sailor Mas through contemporary, fashion-forward, and reusable costume design.

Community Impact
The AMPLIFY Connect: Creative Social Enterprise Fellowship, is East Yards’s flagship capacity-building programme and incubator that supports local youth creatives in transforming bold ideas into sustainable socially impactful business ventures. Each year, the fellowship culminates in the AMPLIFY Connect: Creative Social Enterprise Summit — our signature gathering spotlighting creativity, commerce, and community impact through talks, workshops, panels, and exhibitions.

Cultural Exchange
East Yard is intentionally being developed as Arima’s Creative and Cultural Campus — a dynamic hub for cultural exchange that includes onsite overnight accommodation, cultural programming, Arima-themed souvenirs and immersive creative tourism experiences for both locals and visitors.

 

Commerce
East Yard’s physical space functions as a collaborative creative ecosystem, housing our own retail-boutique/performance space/café, backyard event area and mas camp, as well as an Airbnb-listed apartment, craft supply store, bookshop, and dance studio — operated by affiliated and independent creative businesses working from the Yard.