Stitching Resilience: Tatreez-Arpillera Dialogues (Beginner)
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Saturday, March 14 | 1 – 4 PM
$50 | General
$40 | Textile Museum Members
Stitching Resilience brings community members together to collaboratively create a textile artwork rooted in resistance, identity, and collective memory. The workshop connects Palestinian Tatreez and Chilean Arpilleras, two embroidery traditions shaped by histories of displacement and survival.
Participants will explore the cultural and political contexts of both practices and contribute to a large communal Arpillera featuring an olive tree whose leaves are embroidered with Tatreez motifs. Each participant will also learn basic stitches and receive a Tatreez keychain kit to continue the practice at home.
The growing olive tree Arpillera will evolve through community contributions, becoming a living archive of resilience and solidarity.
All materials are provided. If participants require reading glasses, we recommend bringing them.
Facilitator Bio
The workshop is facilitated by Andrea Idrobo, an Ecuadorian Chilean visual and textile artist from Watermelon Seeds Collective whose practice weaves together community engagement, memory, and cross cultural dialogue, and Rana Habayeb, a Palestinian Lebanese artist with ancestral roots in Haifa, Akka, and Tripoli and co founder of Palestinian Cultural Arts Collective (PCAC), whose work centers Palestinian identity, storytelling, and cultural continuity in the diaspora.
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