A Cross-Cultural Textile Workshop
📅 Saturday, May 31, 2025
🕑 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
📍 A Space Gallery, 401 Richmond St. West, Toronto, ON
🎟️ Tickets: FREE – Registration Required
Event Description
Art as memory. Thread as resistance. Stitch as survival.
Join us for STITCHING RESILIENCE, a powerful, community-rooted workshop that brings together the ancestral textile traditions of Palestinian Tatreez and Chilean Arpilleras. These two practices, both born from struggle, tell stories of survival, love, displacement, and defiance — all through the language of fabric and thread.
This is not just a creative space — it's a political, cultural, and emotional gathering. Through hands-on stitching, storytelling, and conversation, we will explore how these traditions connect us across histories, geographies, and movements for justice.
What You’ll Experience
🧵 Intro to tatreez (Palestinian embroidery) & arpilleras (Chilean appliqué)
🧵 A guided space to create your own stitched story
🧵 Conversations on memory, resistance, identity, and community
🧵 Connection with others in an intergenerational, anti-colonial creative space
🧵 All materials provided — no experience needed!
Facilitated by:
✨ Palestinian Cultural Arts Collective
✨ Watermelon Seeds Collective
Sponsored by:
A Space Gallery
Proudly supporting cultural resistance and community dialogue.
Tickets
🎟️ This event is FREE, but registration is required.
⚠️ Spots are limited — please only register if you plan to attend.
Accessibility
A Space Gallery is a wheelchair-accessible venue. Please contact us in advance if you have additional accessibility needs or questions.
Let’s gather. Let’s stitch. Let’s resist — together.
