Let’s come together to share our stories and make a celebratory quilt banner!
This project is about bringing together the LGBTQI+ community of Leytonstone and beyond, young and older generations, people from different backgrounds and walks of life to socialise and share our stories.
We will meet at Stone Minimarket’s community room for 6 or 7 weeks, every Thursday from 14th September.
The inspiration comes from the LGBTQI+ history, particularly from the 1980s and 1990s commemorative and activist HIV quilt banners. The aim is to celebrate our underrepresented community, but also to learn new skills and to socialise.
What we’ll do: Each participant will have a fabric panel to show and celebrate their lives in the borough, with memories, ephemeras and histories transferred into the panels via image transfer, fabric stitching, fabric pens, paint and markers.
All the individual panels would be sewn together with a sewing machine, creating a big quilt banner. No previous experience is required, all abilities welcome.
Each session will be the chance of telling our stories, learning new skills and socialising while having a drink from the Stone Minimarket’s bar.
Places are limited and are on a first-come-first-serve basis. Max. 12 people.
When: from 14th September, every Thursdays from 7pm at Stone Minimarket’s community room, for 6 or 7 weeks depending on the amount of people and work.
The workshop will be run by Simon Olmetti, a local artist and PhD candidate in Fine Arts at UCA, whose research and art practice focus on queering land and alternative spirituality.
This project has been selected and funded by the Waltham Forest Arts and Culture grant 2023 ‘Make It Happen’