Community Quilt and Rest For People Of Colour

Woodlands Community is a Development Trust, a charitable organisation that aims to improve the Woodlands area of Glasgow and the lives of local people. We achieve this through community-led activity and partnership with both local and national organisations.Our aim is to be a force for positive, community-led change in Woodlands.We want to achieve lasting benefits for the area and the people who live, work or study here:- Helping local residents and businesses to improve the Woodlands area- Promoting the health and wellbeing of local people- Promoting learning and education within the community- Encouraging artistic and cultural activity in Woodlands- Protecting and developing Woodlands’ natural and built environment

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A workshop for People of Colour which will use communal quilt making as a way to explore practices of collective resting.

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Woodlands Community Events for People Of Colour

Events at Woodlands Community by and for People of Colour

This is the fifth and final session in a series of five workshops for People of Colour led by Keng Keng Watt, which will use communal quilt making as a way to explore practices of collective resting. The overarching focus of the sessions is on recreating feelings of sanctuary, safety, and ways of finding peace and collective healing in a racist society This session will be about joining the individual patches, made in previous weeks, together to form a quilt, adding wadding and backing it with a layer of material so that it has form and provides warmth. Participants can help design and plan where the individual patches should go. The session will end with resting collectively under the quilt, sharing stories, poems, songs and a cup of tea. It will be a celebration of the work done together and a collective reminder of the importance of rest and recovery. No previous craft experience is required. The session will be informal and relaxed.People are invited to attend all or any of the workshops. There is some continuity but they also work as stand-alone eventsThe sessions are open to all ages though under 18s need to be accompanied by an adult who is also a POC.Keng Keng is an experimental milliner, textile artist and community art activist base in Glasgow. She has been involved with various community based racial, environmental and social justice movements around Scotland and in London. She has organised and facilitated a range of participatory textile workshops including banner and flag making, screen printing and block printing, textile mending and up-cycling, and natural dyeing and eco printing. in her local community and with grassroots organisations. http://www.kengkengwatt.com