(EDITOR’S NOTE: My Facebook reminder this morning is this collage of photos and brief report that I posted on this date five years ago, May 5, 2015, when I was Press, Cultural Affairs and Information Manager at the Embassy of The Bahamas in Washington, D.C., before the change of government in May of 2017)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Bahamas Embassy was one of the more than 40 embassies in Washington, D.C. that participated on Saturday, May 2, 2015 in PASSPORT D.C., one of the signature events of a citywide celebration held during International Cultural Awareness Month.
Presented by Cultural Tourism DC, the annual month-long celebration “is a spectacle featuring 100-plus globally inspired experiences, from music, dance and other performances to food festivals and foreign clothing,” Cultural Tourism DC notes on its website.
Visitors queued up in long lines at the various embassies that opened their doors to the public on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for what one local television station described as a way “to travel around the world without leaving D.C.”
At The Bahamas Embassy staff members from the Embassy and the Embassy Consular Annex were present to explain various aspects of Bahamian culture and artifacts that were on display at tables set up in the main conference room and in the gardens of the Embassy.
In addition to The Bahamas, other embassies participating were African Union, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Korea, League of Arab States, Libya, Malaysia, Mexican Cultural Institute, Morocco, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Ukraine and Venezuela.
