Giocherenda workshop

Giocherenda workshop

Threading Stories workshop June 10th-11th2019, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University The workshop is led by Giocherenda, a group of young refugees who came to Palermo (Italy) from various African Countries. In Palermo, they have found a place...
Travelling Heritage Bureau

Travelling Heritage Bureau

  The first workshop held at the Portico Library Manchester, with Digital Women’s Archive North, to launch the project with international women artists, based in Manchester. A series of workshops led by Jenna Ashton, will follow, in a variety of museum,...
Quiet protest

Quiet protest

It was the last Making Common Ground workshop on Friday. We welcomed 6 new members to the group and 6 from previous sessions, so this was our biggest set of stitchers so far. This week’s conversations were just as interesting and far-reaching. We spoke about stitch as...
Stitching more routes

Stitching more routes

  Vanessa has run her last workshop, finding the traces and tracks of common and particular ground. Thread has walked across the fabric as steps and lines, knots and points of reference and delicate markers. It has also joined and stitched people and fabric...
Home ground

Home ground

The second Making Common Ground session welcomed a few new faces to the group. We continued stitching, introducing some new textiles reference points. One person had dug out a lovely book of stitch techniques to bring along. The conversation again was really...