Arts-Entertainment

A vision years in the making took shape on St. Croix over the Independence Day weekend as the inaugural Deep End Music Festival brought together nationally recognized musicians and local performers for three days of live music.

French Heritage Week returns to St. Thomas this Thursday, July 9 with five days of music, dancing, community gatherings and cultural celebrations, honoring the enduring legacy of the French community in the U.S. Virgin Islands while marking a new chapter in the territory’s relationship with neighboring St. Barthélemy. 

Chosen authors will represent the U.S. Virgin Islands at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Inspired by her grandmother's collection of Virgin Islands cookbooks and history, Ashley-Ruth Moolenaar Bernier's new novel, The Bush Tea Murder, blends food, culture and community into a cozy mystery that feels unmistakably Caribbean.

Celebrate Emancipation Day with a special cultural event at Bajo el Sol Gallery on Friday from 1 to 4 p.m. The gallery will host a book signing with Dr. Letitia Henry, author of Unda de Baobab Tree: USVI History, Culture & Nature Activity Book, along with a Crucian Bayside Creations Pop-Up featuring traditional market baskets and local artistry by the Henry siblings.

81C is pleased to announce the St. Thomas presentation of LEHWE’s BIRTH PAPERS: A Caribbean Design Show, its inaugural traveling exhibition dedicated to Caribbean design. Developed and curated by LEHWE Founder Azi Jones, the exhibition opens in Charlotte Amalie on July 11, following its debut at El Kilómetro in Santurce, Puerto Rico.

The gallery will host a book signing with Dr. Letitia Henry, author of Unda de Baobab Tree: USVI History, Culture and Nature Activity Book, along with a Crucian Bayside Creations PoP-Up featuring traditional market baskets and local artistry by the Henry Siblings. 

Mango Tango Art Gallery will unveil The Final Vision, an exhibition of oil paintings and drawings by the late Mel McCuddin on Saturday, June 27, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. All works will be on display and available for purchase.

Renowned guitarist Jeff Pevar and vocalist Inger Nova Jorgensen will return to St. Croix July 3-5 to headline the inaugural Deep End Music Festival, a three-day celebration of live music, fireworks, food and collaboration between local and visiting musicians at the Deep End Bar & Grill on the island's East End.

In an email to the Source, Corinne Van Rensselaer noted that she wrote this poem 10 years ago, on June 12, 2016. "And yet, in our community and in our world today, it is ever more relevant today, June 18, 2026," she said.

We are pleased to announce a pop up exhibition opening event entitled Honor Ori for Caribbean based artist IYANSA, taking place at 81C on St Thomas Friday, June 19, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

"The sounds of gunshots often wake me at night while asleep in my Solberg home overlooking town and on the other side of the hill from the West, but hearing those from Savan Friday in broad daylight while I was already awake immediately reignited concerns, feelings, thoughts, and hopes that I know are much bigger than my immediate ability to help the way I’d like," said DaraMonifah Cooper. In response, she offers these two poems.

The Caribbean Community Theatre concludes its 41st season with Sarah & Addie, a collection of short Crucian plays.

Jordan K. Paul is an Afro-Caribbean writer, director, and actor from Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. A graduate of DeSales University’s TV/Film Production program, his filmmaking focuses on character-driven, visually innovative stories exploring moral resilience, memory, and structural identity.

At the recent launch of Artefacts of Jamaica, facilitated by the Caribbean Culture Fund, cultural practitioners from Jamaica, the US Virgin Islands, Saba, and Dominica reflected on a challenge facing communities across the Caribbean.

The exhibit is a groundbreaking collaboration exploring the vital connection between soil, art, and the Caribbean community, part of the 2026 Dialogues on Freedom Series.

The Art of Healing, Threads of Resilience, Healing Arts, Heritage and Culture Series hosted by the VI Breast Cancer Project continues on Monday from 3 to 6 p.m. with a Self-Portrait Sketching Class, at Fort Frederik on King Street in downtown Frederiksted on St. Croix. Curator and artist Monica Marin is the featured instructor. Enrollment is open to all cancer survivors, and seating is limited. A few seats remain.

Caribbean Community Theatre concludes its 41st season with Sarah & Addie, a collection of short Crucian plays. There will be a total of six performances over two weekends: Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM, June 12, 13, 19 and 20, and two Sunday matinée shows at 4 p.m. on June 14 and 21.

81C presents Art with Voice, a student-led pop-up exhibition curated by emerging artist and student curator Gyselle Ready, currently on view at 81C in historic Charlotte Amalie through June 10. 

An upcoming exhibition at Fort Frederik Museum on St. Croix will spotlight the people, places and stories that have shaped the Virgin Islands' built environment while honoring two artists whose work helped preserve and interpret that history.