This workshop is part of the Vagina Museum's South Asian Heritage Month Programme. The event is open to people of all backgrounds and of all genders, but is run by and primarily for folks of South Asian descent.
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Yoni crafts with Theeba
Come along to learn a new skill, up cycling old treasure into yoni gems, or just enjoy the creative energy and make new friends.
You’ll be gently guided through the art of natural dyeing, using everyday plant-based ingredients like spices, tea, and vegetables — humble items often found on your own kitchen shelf. These slow, sensory techniques are simple to learn and deeply grounding.
Each session is laced with stories — exploring how these crafts shift across regions, how they honour the earth, and how they carry ancestral knowledge that has long been undervalued or erased. You’ll leave with something beautiful, made by hand and heart.
All materials and guidance are provided. Just bring your curiosity and an open spirit.
Bonus: the café will be open, serving chai, faluda, and coffee to keep your creativity flowing.
Who is this for?
Anyone curious about creativity, cultural storytelling, traditional Indian and Sri Lankan craft practices — or who just wants to spend a joyful afternoon making beautiful things in good company. No prior experience necessary — all are welcome.
Facilitator Biography
Theeba (@theeba_lingeswary), one of the Museum's very own vulvateers, will be running a series of fully guided traditional plant-based crafting workshop with a twist. Theeba is a Tamil crafter, printmaker, excavator and story-teller of hidden South Asian tales & crafting methods. Find her dabbling between leaf weaving, printmaking, tie-dye with natural dyes, or uncovering hidden histories of Indian and Sri Lankan crafting.
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South Asian Heritage Month at the Vagina Museum
Since 2022 the Vagina Museum has been in Bethnal Green in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, a vibrant and largely South Asian borough. Bangladeshis, and people from other parts of South Asia, have been a part of this community since the 1950’s, when the government encouraged Commonwealth citizens to move to the UK to help rebuild the country after World War Two.
Although we have South Asian volunteers and approximately 9% of our visitors identify as South Asian, there are currently no people of South Asian descent working for the Vagina Museum. We're a small team, but it is precisely this lack of representation that can lead to the kind of universalising narratives of which we are so critical. It is our responsibility, then, to put in the effort to bridge that gap.
This isn’t about putting on one seminar or one exhibition, having one diversity hire or making one statement of solidarity. It has to be intentional and ongoing. With that in mind, we’re prioritising South Asian artists, poets, healthcare workers, and other organisers during South Asian Heritage Month with the aim of building our connections and networks within the community such that those relationships might continue to flourish after South Asian Heritage Month.
As this year’s theme suggests, we’re looking to put down some roots and see where those take us.
Find the whole programme on our website.
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