Name: Queer Art Club: (Re)Weaving—A Tapestry Making Workshop
Start: 2026-06-06T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-06T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 50 Sousa Mendes St

$Queer Art Club: (Re)Weaving\u2014A Tapestry Making Workshop$

Join us for a beginner-friendly and fun tapestry making workshop at Queer Art Club - let's get crafty together!
About this Event

Hosted by Queer Art Club

Queer Art Club presents (Re)Weaving with Norwin Anne

In this edition of Queer Art Club you will be learning how to make your own tapestry using fabric scraps on a repurposed frame.

(Re)Weaving is a textile upcycling workshop that intends to revive and promote the art practice of weaving, but with found and discarded materials. Participants will learn how to weave a new textile and create their own tapestry using fabric scraps on a repurposed frame. This workshop is an intro to basic weaving and is beginner friendly. Connect with your community, build new skills and create a beautiful piece of textile art to take home!

All materials will be provided!

What to expect:

Learn how to set up your frame as a loom
Weave with yarn and fabric scraps on a repurposed frame
Practice simple weaving techniques, experiment with patterns by combining different colours and textures
Create your own unique and personalized mini tapestry

Participants can choose to keep their woven piece on the frame for display or use it again to keep weaving more pieces.

Accessibility: The workshop will be on the second floor of George Chuvalo Neighbourhood Centre. The centre is fully accessible. All entrances and restrooms are wheelchair accessible, and there is an elevator available to access the second floor.

Norwin Anne is a Filipinx multidisciplinary artist, (re)maker, and eco-culture communicator. They focus on (textile) waste to understand its cultural and environmental impacts, which led them towards a slow fashion and zero-waste design approach in their creative practice. Dedicated to mainly working with found and discarded materials, they want to continue developing their ideas by merging their skills and knowledge of fashion with other subjects — through facilitating community engaged workshops, as well as creating wearable art and textile installations that visually translate complex intersecting topics. After experimenting with new ways to use salvaged textiles in their work, they were inspired by traditional weaving techniques in the Philippines and have been exploring the art form as a way to (re)connect to their cultural roots.