Wrap & Chat: Culture in Conversation
Engaging, lively and informative chat with a wide range of creatives from across Black society about how their childhood inspirations and vivid curiosity fulled their ambitions for a career within the arts.
The beauty of talking and listening to people - for me - allows for pearls of wisdom to be shared, how experiences helped individuals to evolve, supports words becoming memorable quotes, and opens the door to some unspoken tit-bits of information falling into your lap that you didn’t even know you were looking for. Or maybe like me, you are blessed to be connected to many creatives who have much to say and share about the world and part of the creative industry they inhabit.
Bardot, Founder & Creative Director, House of Nyabinghi
“To connect plus converse is vital if you want to grow. As a person. As a business. As a Society.”
So I, Bardot, - named after the French actress Brigitte - opened my book of creative contacts and reached out to those I know across Black society. Fashion designers, visual stylists, musicians, lecturers, set designers, photographers, filmmakers, product designers, researchers, branding consultants, fashion journalists/press officers, buyers…you get the gist!
I wanted to shine a spotlight on this excellent group of technicians and practitioners and share the passions they each have for their craft; whilst growing up and living everyday Blackness. What are their respective anecdotes? Golden rules and top tips? Who in their immediate family circle was always championing their creativity, if at all?
These were the things as a kid I always pondered on - did famous Black creative people ‘before they were famous’ have to push those god awful old school shopping trolley’s with the two wheels filled with Caribbean / African food to and from the market on Saturdays? How many legendary trips to the seaside did they go on with the local Baptist Church? How old where they, when they first burnt themselves with the curling iron or where they deemed to have ‘good hair’ so it didn’t matter? [rolls eyes at the nonsense] and so many more questions…
I laugh now at some of these rites of passage which were fundamental when growing up. Yet these rites also serve as a great historical tapestry of primary information on which to source creative inspiration. This is how House of Nyabinghi’s Wrap & Chat: Culture in Conversation was born.
As part of our mission to connect + converse, join us to learn about our guest's creative inspirations, favourite things, top tips and much more...