As a follow-up to the Stitching Together Study Day, we're running a free two-hour online event with the aim of supporting people with interests in participatory textile making activities to forge new connections for future conversations and collaborations. Thursday 3 June, 2-4pm BST (check the time in your time zone) Book your free place at the Networking …
Stitching Together Study Day + networking session … Save The Dates!
**Update - booking now open! Click here for details** We're planning our final (funded) network events... Put the dates into your diaries! The Stitching Together Study Day will take place on Thursday 13 May with live sessions (9-10.30am / 2-3.30pm / 7-8.30pm BST) and pre-recorded content available via the website ahead of time. All sorts …
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Good Practice Guidelines launch (follow-up)
The launch of the Good Practice Guidelines last Friday was a fantastic event – over 130 people attended, which was amazing, and we had such positive feedback about the lightning presentations by Catherine Reinhart, Lynn Setterington, Rosa Tolnov Clausen, Sarah Brown, Hinda Mandell, Mah Rana and Lindy Richardson. Many thanks to all of you! If …
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Good Practice Guidelines launch
After many months of development, we're delighted to have the Stitching Together Good Practice Guidelines ready to launch. The guidelines are written for people who facilitate participatory textile making workshops and projects – whether professional textile practitioners, artists, academic researchers, people working within museums and galleries, community activists, amateur enthusiasts or anyone else! We generated …
Call for ‘Sewing Stories’
Barbara Burman, editor of The Culture of Sewing: Gender, Consumption and Home Dressmaking (Berg 1999), recently got in touch and asked us to share her call for ‘sewing stories’: I am undertaking research for a book about plain sewing. It is often a Cinderella practice overlooked in favour of the more glamorous craft of embroidery and using the needle in expressive …
Call for images – final reminder!
A week to go before our 21st August deadline... There's still time to send us images of your participatory textile making projects. We're designing the Stitching Together Good Practice Guidelines (more info here) and we want to showcase examples from the wide range of diverse projects undertaken by network members. So, if you'd like your …
#CRMethodsChat on participatory textile making as a research method
On 30th June, Stitching Together co-hosted a Creative Research Methods Twitter Chat (#CRMethodsChat) on ‘Participatory Textile Making as a Research Method’. #CRMethodsChat is an initiative created by Dr Helen Kara, who has written extensively about creative research methods for the social sciences. The chats are held on Twitter at a scheduled date and time. Over one …
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Stitching Together & FilmGeographies collaboration: CALL FOR SHORT FILMS
The Stitching Together project brings together researchers, project commissioners, professional textile practitioners and enthusiast maker groups to open critical dialogue around research and practice using participatory textile making methods. FilmGeographies is an online screening platform and annual film festival that acts as forum for films made by geographers and about geography. We are joining forces to …
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Good Practice Guidelines: CALL FOR IMAGES
One of the key outputs of the funded Stitching Together research network project will be the Good Practice Guidelines, which provide advice for facilitators and commissioners of participatory textile making workshops and projects in diverse settings. The guidelines are currently in progress: we gathered ideas at our first two network events and now have a full draft …
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Stitching Together special edition Part One out now!
We have some very exciting news to share today…. The first part of the Stitching Together special edition of the Journal of Arts and Communities (Volume 10 Issues 1&2) is now out and available online! We, and the contributors, have been beavering away on this publication for a number of months, so it’s super exciting …
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