Designed by Kianna Mkhonza
a stitch for you, a stitch for me
A quilt-making workshop by Anélia Victor
March 2, 6-8:30pm
Scadding Court Community Center
In many Caribbean households’ quilt making is a communal practice where folks embroider quilts for various home uses while sharing stories, laughs and bond through the quilt making process. Learn to naturally dye fabric and make a quilt in our one-day workshop with mixed media textile artist Anélia Victor. In this communal workshop, you will learn how to dye fabric using natural plants and various hand stitching techniques to make a quilt while sharing stories with other participants.
This workshop is inspired by “A little food is a feast” by Sanaa Humayun. While the stories in Sanaa’s pieces are deeply personal and intimate between those they refer to, we’re also dreaming about the communal found in the act of stitching and in the afterlife of the pieces. In Sanaa’s works the legibility and redaction of stories that are vulnerable resonates with keeping stories safe and sacred as a way to protect them. In the spirit of a relational practice, we’re offering a quilt-making workshop for emerging BIPOC artists where certain things are not spoken again after the workshop, but simply interwoven in the threads that make the quilt.
The workshop is currently limited to 12 participants. If you’re interested in signing up, please fill out this google form to register.
Accessibility at Scadding Court Community Center:
-Ramp to entrance
-Elevator
-Accessible washrooms all floors
In the workshop we’ll be stitching which can be straining on our hands. Quilting is at your own pace and breaks will be integrated in between. Tools and materials will be provided to accommodate a variety of access needs.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss access needs with us, please email contact Marina: programming@whippersnapper.ca.
About Anélia:
Anélia Victor is a Markham based mixed media textile artist. They revisit the methods and discourses from the past to better innovate a new trajectory for the future by creating collages, sculptures, installations, and various pieces using textiles, found items and natural materials. Anélia’s founding themes are identity, herbalism, farming and Africanfuturism with a focus on Black and Queer Histories, Caribbean textile history and textile sustainability all while using a futuristic lens.
They are a self-taught artist with a Bachelor of Honours in Communication Studies from York University. Anélia has received grants from the Ontario Art Council, Rising Youth, Platform A, Canada’s LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce Youth Grant.
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We are grateful to our funders, Canada Council for the Arts without which this program would not be possible.