LONDON, England — His Excellency Ellison Greenslade, QPM, Bahamas High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, welcomed Mrs Pamela Burnside, owner of Doongalik Studios Art Gallery in Nassau, and Ms. Teleica Kirkland, Creative Director of the London-based Costume Institute of the African Diaspora (CIAD), to The Bahamas High Commission, 10 Chesterfield Street, Mayfair, on Monday, June 24, 2019.
Mrs. Burnside is co-founder of Creative Nassau, which was established in 2008 by her late Jackson Burnside III “along with a group of passionate Bahamians who wished to showcase their unique Bahamian culture to the world, whilst actively developing a Creative Tourism model to ensure that by the year 2020 more persons will travel to The Bahamas to experience its art, culture and heritage rather than just its sun, sand and sea,” according to Creative Nassau’s website.
In March 2015, Mrs. Burnside, currently President of Creative Nassau, and Mrs. Patricia Glinton-Meicholas, who is also a co-founder of Creative Nassau and is currently its Vice President, began hosting a weekly Radio Show in Nassau about cultural and creative issues on Island FM 102.9, compliments of the station’s owner Sir Charles Carter. The radio show airs every Tuesday from 7-7.30pm and is re-broadcast on Sunday from 5pm to 5.30pm.
Ms. Teleica Kirkland, founder and Creative Director of CIAD, is a lecturer at London College of Fashion and has “over 20 years experience working in the fashion and costume industry,” according to CIAD’s website.
She has traveled “extensively throughout Africa and the Diaspora making links with designers, artisans, and practitioners across the globe,” the website notes.
According to CIAD’s Mission Statement, the Costume Institute of the African Diaspora (CIAD) in London “is a growing resource hub for information on costume, clothing, textiles and adornments from the African Diaspora.”
“Our mission is to be the main port of call for information regarding costume, fashion history, textiles and textiles construction from around the African Diaspora and in so doing create a bridge between cultural organisations worldwide,” the website states.
