Claire Ann Goring

One of Guyana’s most creative cultural exponents, Claire Goring’s talent and commitment to promoting and preserving the culture of her homeland Guyana has been the inspiration for many of the projects she has undertaken in Guyana and in North America. As a designer of Carnival costumes, Claire has received accolades for her winning costume designs in Guyana and at the Labor Day Carnival in Brooklyn. She has produced shows with talent from around the Caribbean, i CEO of her own company, Hybiskus Creations, a company dedicated to developing and distributing art, craft and products that reflec she has developed her own line of handmade greeting cards. As a graphic artist, her creative talent can be seen in her production of magazines, brochures, newspapers and in marketing campaigns. Claire’s passion for promoting the culture of her homeland Guyana is evident by her introduction of the annual Guyana Folk Festival to North America. One of the founders of the Guyana Cultural Association of New York, she is the Cultural Director and one of the creative minds behind the annual Guyana Folk Festival. She continues to work with other members of the Association to promote, propagate and preserve Guyana’s cultural heritage a. Claire is also President of Friends of Victoria Village Diaspora, an organization dedicated to the redevelopment of Victoria Village, the first village bought by freed slaves after emancipation in Guyana. She feels it is her mission to teach young men and women that their foreparents were conscious, organized and deliberate agents in the transformation of themselves and their future. Claire Goring has been honored for her work in promoting the culture of Guyana by the Guyana Cultural Association of New York Inc. the Brooklyn Borough President, the New York City Council, the Guyana Tri-State Alliance, the Guyana American Economic and Cultural Organization, the Allied Organization, the Caribbean Community and by the Guyana Day Committee.