Free Workshops at Culture, Health & Wellbeing International
Significant Seams artist tutors will be hosting three free taster events at a Booth at the Culture, Health & Wellbeing International Conference on 21-23 June 2021. The Conference programme draws…
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Growing and tackling social isolation
We are growing at pace, despite, or perhaps to some extent because of the pandemic. Significant Seams is now actively recruiting three Young Artists in Residence/Development Assistants, Youth Worker, 2…
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Pause Breathe Create
“Crafting from nature has reconnected me with my creativity which is essential to my wellbeing.” “Stitching has kept me sane during a lonesome lockdown.” “Being creative anchored a sense of…
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We’re Recruiting!
Significant Seams is looking for up to THREE enthusiastic people between 16-24 to join our team as ‘Development Assistants.’ The role is part of the national kickstarter scheme and interested…
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Textile Art and Activism?
By Naomi Wright, Artistic Associate, Significant Seams & Art & Energy As freelancers, artists often wear a number of hats, different shapes and sizes to fit the partner organisations and…
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Learning From Experience: The Creative Caregivers In Covid Times
By Jessica Liew Like most people, creativity was a lifeline I clung onto very tightly in the pandemic. I never expected that creativity, in this context, would become the subject…
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A completed DIGITAL quilt from Envisage Arts CIC
Envisage Arts CIC recently finished their Stitch in Time project, led by a student art therapist under mentorship from the organisation Director Sue Ellis. Over 20 social group sessions via…
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Deadline to contribute patches (or poetry) for ‘Here Comes The Sun’ Quilt 30 October
arthur+martha, an experimental arts organisation based in the north west of England, is coordinating two quilt projects through the pandemic – AND ACCEPTING PATCHES THROUGH THE END OF OCTOBER: ‘Here…
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Participant Perspective, Online vs In-Person
By Lisa Dillon-Langhorn Before lockdown, I had the privilege of meeting Catherine and Naomi, from Significant Seams, when I attended, in person, the Textiles and Nature course in Crediton, Devon,…
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