TITLE

Community Quilt and Rest for People of Colour

WHEN

Saturday 2nd December

TIME

11:00am-1:00pm

WHERE

Woodlands Community Meeting Room

COST

Free

MORE INFO

This is the fifth and final session in a series of five workshops for People of Colour led by Keng Keng Watt, which will use communal quilt making as a way to explore practices of collective resting. The overarching focus of the sessions is on recreating feelings of sanctuary, safety, and ways of finding peace and collective healing in a racist society 

This session will be about joining the individual patches, made in previous weeks, together to form a quilt, adding wadding and backing it with a layer of material so that it has form and provides warmth. Participants can help design and plan where the individual patches should go. 

The session will end with resting collectively under the quilt, sharing stories, poems, songs and a cup of tea. It will be a celebration of the work 

done together and a collective reminder of the importance of rest and recovery. 

No previous craft experience is required. The session will be informal and relaxed.People are invited to attend all or any of the workshops. There is some continuity but they also work as stand-alone events

The sessions are open to all ages though under 18s need to be accompanied by an adult who is also a POC.

Keng Keng is an experimental milliner, textile artist and community art activist base in Glasgow. She has been involved with various community based racial, environmental and social justice movements around Scotland and in London. She has organised and facilitated a range of participatory textile workshops including banner and flag making, screen printing and block printing, textile mending and up-cycling, and natural dyeing and eco printing. in her local community and with grassroots organisations. http://www.kengkengwatt.com

HOW TO BOOK

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