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We build community and support people in vulnerable life moments using art and creativity.
We run creative workshops, make artwork with communities, learn about communities through creative research and evaluation, and provide sewing supplies for social good.
The Latest from across our activities
- Art-Coustics: Using textiles to make a community cafe warm & welcomingOver a series of events through winter 24-25, Significant Seams and Turning Tides are inviting you to get involved in a range of creative activities and join us for a free hot lunch every Monday and a number of Tuesdays. Our first few sessions will involve mood board making and preparing materials for the emerging
- Photos from the Eco-Crafternoon, courtesy of Kay PiercyIn the spirit of sustainability, and recognising the predisposition of many makers to get involved in ’sewing for social good,’ Significant Seams CIC and Sustainable Crediton CIO brought together a range of inspiring projects and organisations for the event they named the ‘Eco Crafternoon.’ The event raised over £600 for a range of local good
- Nature and community, textile art & graffiti, a new community project in Newton Abbot with Joe Webster (aka EnuF)A new 12-metre high mural being planned for Golden Lion Square in Newton Abbot is inspired by a giant oak tree which was felled in 1922 to make way for the war memorial at the end of Queen Street. At the time, the loss of the tree caused a large public outcry, illustrating how important
- Eco-Crafternoon: a community event to inspire crafty clear-outs and new season of creativitySustainable Crediton and SIgnificant Seams, with support from a range of further groups, are inviting mid-Devon creatives to do an autumn tidy of their crafty stashes. They have hired the Boniface Centre on 26 October, and are inviting everyone to come along with things from their crafty clear-out AND wish lists. Items can be swapped