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Home > News NewsVXiXtXaXmXiXnXeXCXMXS-2007-10-26 20:09:59 Patronage of UNESCOISEND 2011 Europe has been officially granted the patronage of UNESCO on 22 June 2010. Progress in the Symposium preparation
Dear colleagues and friends of natural dyes and colorants, As by July 31st 2010, nearly 500 of you, from 67 countries around the world, have already filled and sent us the application form! We have had to make difficult choices to select about 75 oral presentations among more than 180 very interesting proposals and about 30 proposals of dyeing demonstrations have also been accepted. The resulting provisional programme of oral presentations and dyeing demonstrations will be published online in September and we trust you will find it particularly attractive. Most oral presentations that could not find place in the programme will, instead, be presented as posters and we hope this solution satisfies both the authors and the participants who will enjoy the poster presentation sessions. In September, the official registration form to ISEND 2011 Europe, registration fees and all practical information will be made available online. Meanwhile, work is in progress on two exhibitions specially prepared for ISEND 2011 Europe: one exhibition on true purple from Muricids at the Aquarium, and the other on natural dyes in the collections of the Museum of Natural History, in La Rochelle. We are also completing our collection of “live” dye plants to show it to you during one of the excursions. |
Two examples of pedagogical programmes to be presented during the SymposiumPedagogical programmes inspired by the use of natural dyes currently associate two professional colleges specialised in fashion design and embroidery, in New-Caledonia and on the west coast of France: the Lycée Professionnel Jean-XXIII at Paita, and the Lycée Professionnel Gilles-Jamain at Rochefort-sur-Mer, near La Rochelle. Natural colorants from plant wastes and from indigenous plants of the dry tropical forest of New-Caledonia, or natural colorant extracts of dye plants from the west of France, will respectively be used by the students of the two colleges to dye and create fashion clothing that will be presented during ISEND 2011 Europe. These two years of parallel work on natural dyes will be recorded in a film.
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