Workshop Description:
Join the free making-space of Sewing Inheritance, with intermedia artist-mother Lindsey Bond. The Sewing Inheritance workshop is a call-to-action, inviting folx to create quilt pieces to start a material dialogue with their Settler-Colonial inheritances on Treaty Territory.
The workshop will focus on the slow-process of sewing-as-conversation; a method that reflects on ally-ship via intimate sewing actions in support of everyday decolonization. The making-session offers space to puzzle out personal and family entanglements and complicity with Settler-Colonialism today. With the fabric as our guide, each participant is invited to unravel, reveal and re-story their own family legacy.
Participants are invited to bring inherited fabric, an item or skill (ex. crocheting, hide-work, rug hooking/unhooking, etc.). The creation method chosen must be respectfully practiced/ rightfully inherited and part of the artist’s own ancestry, heritage and of this place on Treaty 1 Territory.
Some basic sewing materials will be provided at the workshop for a material-share. A pdf with some reflective prompts will be sent out prior for participants to prepare for the discussion space of the workshop. There are no size or style guidelines for this workshop. Let the material be the teacher. By sewing decolonial conversations, this workshop aims to direct participants towards honouring long standing First Nations, Métis, Inuit and queer sites-of-resistance and relationship with the land.
This workshop is brought to you in partnership with Gallery 1C03, and will be held at the C2 Centre for Craft at 1-329 Cumberland. Accessibility Information about the space: 329 Cumberland has wheelchair access around the right side of the building. The C2 Centre has gender neutral family washrooms.
Workshop Runs:
March 4, 2023 | 1 – 3pm, In-person
Contact Lindsey for the PDF to get started!