
The Banners Project: A Sewing Circle
Thursday, May 22 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
FreeArts Collaborative Medford is hosting The Banners Project: A Sewing Circle, led by the Green Cambridge program Cambridge Wildlife Arts. Inspired by historical and current protest posters, banners, and bedsheet paintings, including the fabric banners of Aram Han Sifuentes and the block print banners of Peter Schumann, Cambridge Wildlife Arts welcomes members of the public to sit around a table and stitch a single embroidered and/or appliquéd banner meant for use in vigils, protests, and parades. Echoing the suffragettes, the use of wildlife imagery combined with a single word emphasizing our commonality with nature on the banner emphasizes our resilience and interdependence with each other, as does the experience of creating something from fiber working in a group or in a circle, common to many cultures and historical moments. The banner will be worked on in multiple venues and when completed will be used in the Honk! Parade in Somerville/Cambridge in October, and be lent for use in other events by arrangement. Register through the ACM website.