hits Brooklyn, NY on June 12
The Sonia Noel Foundation for the Creative Arts (SNFCA) is pleased to announce the launch of “Bridging the Gap” – Caribbean style. The major fashion event will be launch as part of the Caribbean American Heritage Month at the prestigious Brooklyn Borough Hall, in New York on June 12.
US President Barak Obama had proclaimed June 2015, a month for National Caribbean-American Heritage.
“Bridging the Gap” is an excellent platform to connect new world style coming out from both the cross-cultural Caribbean backdrop and the dynamic Diaspora nexus of Brooklyn, New York. 
Because of a long history of interrelated synergies spanning more than a century, it is fitting that SNFCA proclaim to the world, recognition of our similarities while still acknowledging our differences.
The world shares a multiethnic, multicultural identity which informs the creative arts and our fashion, in particular, with a versatile edge that is alive, appealing and above all, alternative.
Our creative arts identity would connect the world, in style. It would be heartening to experience the networking opportunities and the merchandising advantages of this kind of collaborative Endeavour.
With such a platform, it is believed that designers can create elements that are brewed in a melting pot of diversity and cosmopolitanism.
The Caribbean region has been known for its white sandy beaches, fresh winds and blue seas, but against that backdrop lays a culture embedded with a rich history of art.
Music, food, and fashion have played a very important role in the development. Its unique style of island colours, cuts and costumes, largely influence our fashion and creative arts industries.
Sonia Noel believes in collaboration and bringing awareness through fashion to things that affect in society. SNFCA will collaborate with Music Brings Life effort that brings the worlds of fashion, music and charity together. Music Brings Life is a profit organisation that educates young people in the black, Latino and Caribbean communities about the importance of donating blood.
“I feel very blessed to have this opportunity to lead the team to produce a fashion event to showcase Caribbean designing talent to the world and at the same time I am a part the heroes give blood campaign”, Noel noted.
This event will feature a plethora of designers from the French, Dutch and English Caribbean region and New York, including young emerging designers and a few veterans. The team to “Bridging the Gap” include Guyanese fashion icon, Sonia Noel, Richard Young, Donna Thompson, Phillipa Morrish, Steven Cutting, Joslyn Mendez, Jacques Graham, Marisca Fiedtkou Jordan, Rudiana Bumbury, Lorna Welshman-Neblett, Karen Gray and Christine Neblette.