Connecting Threads

Connecting Threads:
Fashioning Madras in India and the Caribbean

10:00-10:30	Coffee & Registration
10:30 – 12:30	Welcome & Opening Remarks The Connecting Threads Project Textile Histories in India and the Caribbean: Karuna Wielenga Dietrich, Steeve Buckridge Madras and its Histories: Uthra Rajagopal, Jonathan Square
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 16:00	Object Session: V&A Madras Handkerchiefs and Bristol Museum Grenada Dolls Interpreters: Avalon Fotheringham, Suelin Low Chew Tung (Grenada-based artist) Demonstrations of Lungi and Headwrap tying
16:00 – 16:20	Coffee break
16:20 – 18:00	Panel: Contemporary Madras Moderator: Teleica Kirkland (The Costume Institute of the African Diaspora) Participants: Prasan Shah (Original Madras Trading Company), Regal (Designs by Regal), Sonja Dumas (Mapping the Madras project), Kavita Parmar (I Owe You Project) Summary Key note: Carol Tulloch
18:00 – 19:00	Drinks Reception