Virtual Collective Mending Sessions, Online, 21 October 2023

CMS is a series of socially engaged workshops centered on collaboratively mending abandoned quilts.
About this Event

NOTE: Please purchase a ticket for at least one date. Commitment to this virtual session is encouraged at all five dates. Unfortunenatly, the Eventbrite platform makes you purchase a ticket for all events seperately. Just make sure you sign up for ONE at least, I will sort the rest :)

Virtual Collective Mending Sessions

Live Virtual Sessions Saturdays Oct. 21, Nov. 18, Jan. 20, Feb. 17, March 16

2:00 - 3:00 pm Ireland Time /8:00- 9:00am CST

Event: FREE

Limit 12 participants.

Textile artist Catherine Reinhart cultivates care for cloth and community through slow stitching and quilting. Participants will be led in a quilt restoration project over the course of five virtual sessions from October 2023 - March 2024, with a break for the month of December.

Catherine’s Collective Mending Sessions is a series of socially engaged workshops centered around repairing and creating a cooperative piece of fiber art. Expect her to shepherd group-led discussion bolstered by infusions of skill-sharing, poetry, and writing prompts. Reflection on topics from repair culture to work equity to living a creative life — and the intersections between them — will be offered contemplative and actionable space, informed by the central question: “How do we mend our communities?”

In order to foster relationships and discourse, this workshop is limited to 13 people (including the facilitator). We will be adding stitches to quilt blocks from a previous virtual workshop with the Kansas City Textile Center (2021). Prior to the sessions, registrants will be mailed all the supplies required for participation. At the culmination of the sessions, participants are asked to return their finished works to Catherine to be reassembled as part of the series’ whole.

Catherine will cover shipping to participants. Participants are responsible for return shipping costs.

Participants are asked to commit to all five sessions and have basic sewing and/or embroidery skills.

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