Her Majesty Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck, Royal Patron of the Royal Textile Academy delivered the keynote address at the symposium titled “Cultural Sustainability in the Age of Globalization” held in Washington D.C., USA on May 12, 2016. The symposium was jointly organized by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Alliance for California Traditional Arts and the Royal Textile Academy of Bhutan.