Workshops & Events
Hand Embroidery for Collective Grieving
Sundays 4pm-6pm July 20, 27th, and August 3th
$120 per person (early bird $100)
Reflect on what it means to grieve our collective losses, the erasure of histories, institutions, civil rights protections, and the lives taken by genocide and colonial violence. Together we will reflect on our communal grief and make hand embroidered memorials. Over the course of 3 session, we will do a self guided walk through of a historic graveyard alongside discussion, and you will learn the basics of designing and stitching your own unique embroidered memorial, while building community during this fractured time. Both beginner and experienced stitchers are encouraged to attend.
Hand Embroidery for Survivors
June 22nd and 29th, 1-3PM
$90 per person ($75 early bird)
This two day workshop centers survivors* as we discuss the possibilities of hand embroidery for healing and build connection with each other. We’ll meet in my garden and home studio, taking inspiration from the plants around us. Everyone will be invited to design and stitch their own piece that represents healing. Both beginner and experienced stitchers are encouraged to join! We will learn a few basic stitches and how to trace designs onto fabric.
Stitching Home: Hand Embroidery basics
Explore the possibilities of hand embroidery for self expression and healing. We will design and execute a piece that represents home to you. Beginner and experienced stitchers are encouraged to get as creative as you want with that inspiration.
Safety Together
We will come together for a series of 3 discussions on Domestic Violence and Intimate partner violence within the greater dyke+ community. We will be increasing our knowledge of domestic violence as it appears in dyke+ relationships, how we can support each other, increase our sense of safety within our communities, and how to navigate holding harm-doers accountable without slipping into carceral punishment. DV thrives in isolation and ideas of us against the world. Instead we seek to build a thriving community that knows how to show up for each other. Because ultimately… we keep us safe.