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What if an emotion had a shape? A texture? A weight? What if you could hold it in your hands or even hug it?🌀 During LOOPING EMOTIONS IN TEXTILE - Soft Sculpture Workshop, we’ll move from sensation to form, turning emotions, bodily awareness and intuition into soft textile objects. 🌀
→ Led by Polish artist Patrycja Mastej, the workshop begins not with a fixed idea or a plan, but with the body: breathing, noticing, touching, moving and paying attention to what is happening within.
Working with fabric, needle, thread, texture and found soft materials, we’ll create textile forms ranging from relief-like compositions to small three-dimensional “sculptures for hugging.” 🪡 The process combines intuitive collage, textile work and movement inspired by Butoh dance, allowing the hand, eye and body to guide the creative process before analytical thinking takes over.
Fragments of plush toys 🧶🧸 may find their way into the works too! Bringing tenderness, memory and play into the process, and inviting us to embrace parts of ourselves that are sometimes overlooked or pushed aside.
Sensation → emotion → touch → textile → form → something you can hold. ∞
No previous artistic experience is required. Curiosity is enough!
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LOOPING EMOTIONS IN TEXTILE — Soft Sculpture Workshop
From sensation to form: creating textile objects for hugging.
with Patrycja Mastej
The workshop is divided into two groups — please choose one group only:
🧵 GROUP A · YOUNG ADULTS (18–25) 🟢 REGISTRATION OPEN
→ 21 October | 16:00–19:00
22 October | 16:00–17:00
23 October | 16:00–18:00
24 October | 14:00–16:00
→ 25 October | Grand Finale & presentation of workshop results for both groups
🧵 GROUP B · ADULTS (25+) 🔴 REGISTRATION CLOSED
→ 22 October | 17:30–20:30
23 October | 18:30–20:30
24 October | 16:30–19:30
→ 25 October | Grand Finale & presentation of workshop results for both groups
📌 Kunstnernes Hus
Wergelandsveien 17, Oslo
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HOW TO APPLY?
🔴 Participation is free, but registration is required.
🔴 Application deadline: 7th of October 2026
🔴 Selected participants will hear from us at the beginning of October.
To apply, go to our website and fill in the registration form:
→ https://www.wedo.no/looping-emotions-in-textile/
And one important thing: take a moment with your answers in the application form. We really do read them, and they are an important part of the selection process. ∞
We’ll ask you:
→ What helps you feel present in your body?
→ If you could turn one specific emotion into a soft “sculpture for hugging”, which emotion would you choose to hold?
→ What do you enjoy doing with your hands?
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WE DO FESTIVAL 2026 ∞ LOOP THE MOMENT
21–25.10.2026 · Oslo
Feel it. Shape it. Hold it. ∞
Come be part of the loop.
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∞ WITH THE SUPPORT OF 🌱
This year’s edition comes to life thanks to the support of our grant funders → Sparebankstiftelsen DNB · Fritt Ord · Oslo Kommune · Kulturrådet
∞ PARTNERS 🤝🏽
We Do Festival 2026 is created in collaboration with →
Millennium Docs Against Gravity · TrAP · Kunstnernes Hus · NSKI Høyskole · Embassy of Poland in Oslo
For the full We Do Festival programme, events and all the details, head to www.wedo.no or check out the main festival event here: https://fb.me/e/8nLrpkMUT 🌀
🔗 www.wedo.no
🔗 www.facebook.com/wedofestival
🔗 www.instagram.com/wedo_festival
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Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsveien 17, 0167 Oslo, Norge, Oslo, Norway
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