Open Circle presents SEWCIALISING - Four Workshops in Shibori, Darning, Sashiko and Redesign
Open Circle Arts is once again running an exciting summer outreach programme. The Sewcialising Project will investigate our relationship with our clothes. It aims to open up discussions about the clothes we choose to wear, where they come from and where they end up. The series of workshops running through the month of July will explore the (re) making of clothing through re-designing, repairing and mending. Boro is the Japanese art of mending textiles, which celebrates the visible repair of clothing. The first workshop will involve you in using the embroidery technique of Sashiko, teaching you how to reptechniques investigating the care involved in mending. Week four will see you redesigning a shirt. Just bring along an old cotton shirt in need of some TLC and learn how to repurpose your shirt for the construction of a new item of clothing. Finally you will learn the basic techniques and patterns for dying your garments using the traditional art of Shibori.
By re-claiming material from worn and discarded garments, the very fibres are charged with meaning, they are saturated with the traces of everyday life; through wear and tear. Can discarded garments reflect our history, becoming actual material memories of times past, love lost or found, disappointments endured or victories won? These garments could then be read as a guide to our past, reconstructed and brought back to life. Central to this discussion is the value we place on these everyday items. Each workshop is designed to explore the ways in which we can extend the life of these garments to keep them in active service.
PLACES ARE LIMITED and BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL, EARLY BOOKING ADVISED
Venue: Kilkenny Arts Office, no. 5 Dean Street
Dates: July 7th /14th /21st /28th
Times: 10.30am - 12.30am OR 7pm - 9pm
Cost: €30 for all four workshops
For more information and booking: sewcialisingproject@gmail.com or call Dee on 087 652 8448
Please see the Open Circle Arts website www.opencirclearts.ie for further information on this and other programs. Visit and Like our Facebook pages Open Circle Arts / Kilkenny Arts Office
Open Circle Arts is a Kilkenny Arts Office programme. The Arts Office acknowledges the support of the Arts Council, Carlow Kilkenny ETB and Kilkenny County Council's Waste Prevention Programme.
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