Workshops:
This project aims to:
• Create a safe space for local women including refugee and asylum seeker women to meet.
• Enable participants to build a peer support network, make friends, learn and share textile knowledge and skills.
• Provide an opportunity to engage in creative and practical activities and develop skills.
• Introduce participants to local history and culture including the Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, an internationally renowned collection of global textiles located near Burnley in the heart of Pennine Lancashire.
Outcomes: by taking part in our activities we hope that we will offer a safe space, the opportunity to make new friends and a way out of loneliness and isolation for local women whilst nurture the notion of belonging to a broader local community. At the same time, we would love to see participants exchange knowledge as well as learn and develop new skills.
Lastly, to introduce women to the Gawthorpe Textiles Collection as a local ‘hidden gem’ that is accessible for everyone and which is embedded inf local history and culture. Intended audience: local women as well as local refugee and asylum seeker women groups from across East Lancashire.
Refuge Repair Renewal: workshops with woman regugees and asylum seekers
We are starting two new textiles groups for refugees and asylum seekers on Wednesday and Friday mornings from 10:00 - 12:00, starting on 19th M. 2021. No specialist skills necessary. This is an opportunity to be creative, try new techniques and learn more about the history and culture of textiles in East Lancashire.
Each participant will receive a starter pack and have access to sewing machines and other equipment. There will be language support and financial support for travel to the venue.
Workshops will take place at Valley Street Community Centre, BBII 5LZ. Places are limited.
For more information and to book a place as soon as possible please contact Bev Lame: b.lamey@gawthorpetextiles.org.uk
The workshops are organised by Gawthorpe Textiles Collection and the Patterns of Migration project UCLan with support from Super Slow Way.