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 on over 200 submissions for practice and research events from 20 countries. Participants will have a choice of more than 90 presentations, workshops and films. They cover subjects as varied as dementia and the arts, hip hop therapy, young people’s mental health, singing for health, staff wellbeing and training, partnerships and access, population level research and theoretical contributions. They also include our Booth and 3 free sessions, designed to offer a space to wind down from all of the input, and experience the wellbeing characteristics of creativity for oneself.
Silent Zoom for Craftfulness Taster Session
Moths and Mending for Ourselves and for the Planet
With Melinda Schwakhofer & Naomi Wright
Wednesday 23 June 12:45 – 1:30
At Culture, Health, and Wellbeing International Conference
Mending
The act of trying to
understand
how and why
something
has been
torn-out/ eroded/
destroyed/ tattered/ erased
in order
to
re-make, re-weave
re-alize,
re-invent
it.
-Vita Plume
In an interactive conversation we will introduce the concept of how
mending/repairing garments can have a positive effect on our planet as well as
on our wellbeing. We will be focussing on the small acts we can do which can
change the way we might feel about the future, our environment, and
ourselves.
As part of the discussion, we’ll find out about Moths to the Flame – a project
addressing our relationship with energy, our environment and climate change
In this conversation we will chat about a range of topics:
Ethos of mending, re-using, repairing & Slow Stitch Movement
How mending can help our mental health and wellbeing
Mending as an antidote to Fast Fashion and as a subversive act to
counter consumerism
