About this Event
Healing Through Our Hands: Reclaiming the Ancestral Trade Skill of Sewing. This healing project is funded by the Clean Water, Land andLegacy Amendment and Minnesota Humanities
Sewing is more than a skill—it is a trade skill that has lived in the hands of our ancestors for generations.
This FREE experience is being created specifically for African Americans as a space to heal, learn, create, and reconnect. Led by Keiona Cook, founder of Lovely’s Sewing & Arts Collective, who has spent over 17 years teaching sewing and has helped teach more than 1,700 people how to sew, each participant will learn the basics of sewing while creating their own pillow to take home.
But we’re not just sewing. As our hands create, we’ll come together in a Healing Circle to have honest conversations about how trauma is affecting us as African Americans in our local community, while also exploring the history of sewing within our ancestry and why reclaiming this trade skill matters today.
Choose ONE FREE evening to attend:September 21–25 or October 5–9
***** Please be on-time ***** We will be making a pillow
6:00–9:00 PM
IDS Center – Skyway Level
Limited to 20 participants each evening
Come as you are. Leave with something you made with your own hands—and a deeper connection to a skill our ancestors carried before us.
Parking Available in the IDS Ramp for $5 after 5pm
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IDS Center, 80 South 8th Street, Minneapolis, United States
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