Updates
Somerset Museum of Rural Life
Thread Bearing Witness – at Somerset Rural Life Museum 11th Sept -31st Oct 2021
Sewing Together -Online Sewing Group
With Refugee Action Booklet of workshops designed with Tobu Meuwissen and Kelly Quinzel sewing-together-NO-NAMES-with-bleed.pdf
Thread Bearing Witness – Exhibition and Events at Somerset Rural Life Museum with Susan Kamara, Anna and RLCC, Behbud, Indus Resource Centre Karachi At the museum three monumental textile works – GROUND, SEA and SKY – will form an immersive installation in the...
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...
Strands of Time and Place
opening in July at Gawthorpe Hall https://www.gawthorpetextiles.org.uk/post/182399353663/strands-of-place-and-time
British Textile Biennale with SuperSlowWay
Thread Bearing Witness will be appearing at Gawthorpe Hall in the autumn, but look out for Strands of Time and Place which will be in July. https://superslowway.org.uk/projects/britishtextilebiennial-2019-2/
Syrian embroideries for sale
Beautiful hand-stitched embroideries by Asmaa. Contributions made to refugee charities. Email: a.kettle@mmu.ac.uk
One more tent for the multi-language Mushaira
This tent of poetry pod is by Anca Ioana Lumezeanu
Multi Language Mushiara
Another beautiful tent by Freya Godwin for the Mushaira
Ibukun Jesusanmi – Personal reflection and future plans
Being an artist in residence at the Whitworth and collaborating with WYC (Whitworth Young Contemporaries) and Manchester City of Sanctuary had a great impact on Ibukun's life. She has grown so much as a person and as an artist and, as for many other people part of...