CN President, Pam Burnside, was honoured to be invited as the keynote speaker at the Costume Institute of the African Diaspora’s (CIAD) 2nd Biennial Dress Conference entitled “Fibres, Threads & Fabrics: Textiles & Cloth as Material Culture” in London, England on October 28, 2022.
She presented on the history of the Bahamian Straw Industry, and was amongst an eminent group of eight scholars from the UK, USA, Brazil, and Africa who spoke on an amazing variety of topics related to dress and textiles!
Another benefit was to finally get to mee Creative Nassau’s newest partner, Veronica Main, MBE www.hatplait.co.uk in person. CN had been communicating with Ms Main via zoom for many months on an exciting research project!
The final photo was taken at the end of the Conference with the CIAD Founder and CN’s dear colleague, Teleica Kirkland (front row 3rd left), other presenters, and some members of the audience (including Anthony Stuart from The Bahamas Tourist Office in London who came to support)! The presentations will be published in the near future in a UK Journal.
