Pink Stitch Exhibition 2025 - Textile Workshop

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Pink Stitch Exhibition 2025 🩷

Textile Workshop

Date: Thursday 9 October 2025Time: 13:30–15:30Location: Crafts Council, London

Learn hand-stitch techniques with acclaimed textile artist Emily Jo Gibbs and create a small embroidered piece inspired by themes from Pink Stitch. Absolute beginners welcome, curiosity and care are all you need.

What you’ll do

• Explore simple hand-stitch and appliqué techniques
• Create your own mini stitched artwork to take home
• Hear how craft can support reflection and wellbeing

Who it’s for

Beginners and improvers. No experience needed.

What’s included

All materials and tools provided. Light refreshments.

Booking required.

Tour perk: If you’ve booked the 12:00–13:00 Creative Health Tour, you’ll receive a 50% discount on this workshop (you’ll get the code after completing your tour booking).

About the Exhibition

Throughout June and July 2025, 12 women with a lived experience of breast cancer, all in very different stages of their breast cancer journeys, joined us for a 6 week workshop where they created and hand stitched their very own self portraits as a reflection of themselves and their breast cancer experience.

The success of our in-person workshops encouraged us to open up a new opportunity to women across the UK who couldn't attend the workshops in person but still wanted to be a part of this project, during which, over 70 hand stitched pieces were created by our fantastic virtual participants.

These opportunities were created for the participants to come together, learn a new skill, process their breast cancer journey in a new and creative way, but also help us create an exhibition with a big mission - increase the awareness of regular breast checking, and in turn, early breast cancer diagnosis.

This is where we invite YOU to be a part of this mission to join us at the Pink Stitch Exhibition: check today, share tomorrow, and bring a friend who needs this reminder.

In females in the UK, breast cancer is the most common cancer, with around 56,400 new cases every year but Breast cancer survival has doubled in the last 50 years in the UK and this comes down to early detection and for women everywhere to be proactive in checking their breasts.

Every woman that attended our workshops and has taken part in Virtual Pink Stitch has their own story. Come and see it for yourself and be a part of a big change in female health diagnosis.

Here is what to expect during Pink Stitch Exhibition Week:

Wednesday 8th October 2025

10am to 4pm - Public Viewing

Thursday 9th October 2025

10am to 12pm - Public Viewing

12pm to 1pm - Creative health focused tour of the exhibition plus participant speakers

1.30pm to 3.30pm - Textile workshop with artist, Emily Jo Gibbs

Reserve your tour or workshop spot now here.

Only those with confirmed bookings are eligible to attend the tour and workshop.

Friday 10th October 2025

10am to 4pm - Public Viewing

Saturday 11th October 2025

10am to 4pm - Public Viewing

During public viewing hours, members of the public are welcome to come in and have a walk around the exhibition and explore the fantastic work created by our participants as well as finding out more about Cayr Charity. Don't miss the opportunity to become a part of our mission beyond the exhibition.

Please note: Tours and workshops require advance booking, and the VIP night is invitation only.

For questions, email admin@cayrcharity.org.uk with ‘Pink Stitch Exhibition Query’ in the subject.