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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The Lockdown Blues Project – calling for submissions
A group of academics at the University of Exeter are curating a non-traditional scrapbook as part of a research project about the uncomfortable but important topic of Loneliness. The Lockdown…
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Hidden Barriers around mental health inclusivity
by Catherine West, Artist and Founder, Significant Seams CIC I have led various community quilt projects for more than a decade. In my artistic practice, these are a key…
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The Master’s Wives Coverlet and how a historic quilt inspired Glimmer Theatre’s Quarantine Quilt Project
https://www.glimmertheatre.co.uk/quilting-history
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