Richard Bartholomew and team: Costume design and making
Richard Bartholomew and five costume designer-makers from Trinidad arrived in the East Midlands in July and spent a week in Derby, Leicester and Nottingham. They worked with three groups in each city (which consisted of community groups, existing carnival troupes and school/young people’s groups) to create 63 new costumes for this year’s parades – a total of 189 fantastic new costumes for 2005!
Specific themes were chosen for each carnival, enabling Richard to produce unique, new designs for each city. Derby’s theme was ‘Exotic Birds’, the theme for Leicester was ‘A New Beginning’ and in Nottingham, ‘Let’s Celebrate’.
Richard Bartholomew has designed and produced costumes for adult and children's bands and sections, and individual costumes, for more than 30 years. In 1994, he received a special award for his contribution to carnival in Trinidad by the National Carnival Commission He has regularly designed and produced costumes for the children's 'Large Band of the Year', won the 2000 Adult Band of the Year, and has worked on special commissions including in Toronto, Grenada, New York and Antigua.
Richard Bartholomew workshops took place in:
Derby: June 27 – 2 July 2005
Leicester: 3 July – 9 July 2005
Nottingham: 10 July – 16 July 2005