Protective Scroll Workshop

Join a facilitated conversation and workshop to create your own protective scroll in response to ‘Expecting: Birth, Belief and Protection’.

This workshop begins with a facilitated conversation about queer experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and family making. You’ll then have the opportunity to create and share your own protective scroll, inspired by the medieval scroll featured in the display. All materials will be provided.

This workshop is part of a queer takeover of 'Expecting', exploring LGBTQIA+ experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and family-making.

Other activities include:

• a guided tour of 'Expecting'
• a zine-making club inspired by themes of queer family-making and medieval aesthetics
• a display of items relating to pregnancy and childbirth from our collections.

The festival may cover topics such as fertility and infertility, pregnancy, childbirth, and loss.

If you'd like a break from the activities at any point in the day, you can head to our Chill-Out Room to lie down or relax. There will be low lighting, comfortable seating, cushions, mats, ear defenders, earplugs and sensory toys.

A BSL interpreter will be available throughout the day. Please ask a member of staff if you need support.

About your facilitators

Rebekah Lindo (she/her) is a Visitor Experience & Engagement Facilitator at Wellcome Collection. She's interested in exploring the connection between creativity and the self, and has a background in biomedical sciences and science communication.

Aleks Jagielski (he/him) is a Visitor Experience & Engagement Facilitator at Wellcome Collection and a writer with background in community engagement. Outside of Wellcome, he works with the Museum of Transology.

Jake Blackavar (he/they) is a Visitor Experience & Engagement Facilitator at Wellcome Collection. They take a question-led approach to gallery tours and lead a range of creative workshops. Jake also helps run ‘Conversations about Death’, an ongoing series of events at Wellcome Collection that fosters open discussion around tender subjects.

Need to know

The event takes place in the studio on the first floor.

Booking a ticket for a free, in-person event does not guarantee you a place. You should aim to arrive 15 minutes before the event is scheduled to start to claim your place. If you do not arrive on time, your place may be given to someone on the waiting list.

Access

This event will have British Sign Language interpretation. There will be a hearing loop at this event.

The host and speakers will describe themselves and key visual elements they refer to. There will not be a separate audio description track.

This is a relaxed event, which means that if you need to, you are welcome to move around and make noise at any time.

This event is wheelchair accessible, which means people in wheelchairs can access the location with relative ease.

For more information, please visit our Accessibility page. If you have any queries about accessibility, please email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call 020 7611 2222.

Our event terms and conditions

Image credit: A Visitor Experience Tour of Expecting Exhibition, Gallery Photo: Steven Pocock. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).