Embroidery & Storytelling Workshop for BIPOC/Migrant/Refugee Women*

A collaborative workshop with artist Ksenia Telepova & Allia Sadeghipour President of Women Writing Berlin Lab (WWBL)

Join us in an embroidery and storytelling workshop for BIPOC/Migrant/Refugee women*come together to share their individual stories, community and/or family histories, learn how to embroider, and represent their knowledge and narratives through textiles embroidered work represented and symbolised with storytelling elements.

The woman's side of a family tree is often not acknowledged or passed on through textile skill sets passing down family and/or community stories. Such histories and skills can disappear under imperialist extortion, appropriation, and colonial processes. For migrant women*, the ability to embroider can help weave their history and narrative together, reflecting on their own experiences and identities, while passing the knowledge onto the next generation.

In this 4-hour, one-time weekend workshop, we hope to help develop the skills to guide you to answering the important questions:  How can you tell your story through embroidery? How can you translate your story into a different medium of expression? How can family stories be passed down through learned skills? Why is it important to have the representation and passing on of family or community knowledge?

Identity, Embroidery, Empowerment, & Community through Stitching and Root Building

What will I learn?

• How to generate creative inspiration

• How to stitch

• How to brainstorm stories and creative ideas

• How to create multi-textile art and stories

• How to strengthen your own identity

• How to express your identity through embroidery and storytelling

• How to tell your story through embroidery

• How to decolonize and empower yourself or through embroidery

• How to tell your narrative/story

• How to become more confident in sharing your history

What will I need?

• All embroidery materials are provided :)

• Your ideas and vulnerability

• Feel free to bring additional materials/textiles

Who is the workshop for?

This entry-level workshop for BIPoC Women*, Women* with Migration and/or Refugee Background

Basic stitching experience is nice but not necessary.

The location is wheelchair accessible. Workshop will be in English with translations available upon request. B1/B2 level English comprehension is recommended. Coffee & Tea will be provided. Lunch will not be provided but there are many options in the Alexanderplatz area. 

POSTPONED!!! Will return in the Fall :)

Jewellery Making & Ancestral Connection Storytelling Workshop by Nelden Djakababa Gericke

Craft making is a refuge and means of taking care of oneself. In trauma recovery, community based circles, weaving and crafting, pulling and pushing, is a symbolic means of helping us work through something in an environment where we feel supported, safe, and comfortable to explore these knots and loops within ourselves. Jewellery are tangible objects, embodied experiences, sometimes passed down through generations to remind oneself of a moment, a memory, a person, an ancestry, or a feeling. It is also something you wear that connects and touches your body (“The Body Keeps the Score”). We choose the symbols of our lives and how they compliment them by adorning our experiences on our body, like with jewellery. Your survival does not depend on whether or not you wear the right bracelet, but it can be used to signal what is important to you OR your representation/how we want to present ourselves to the world. It’s like a happy place you take with you ;p. 

While experiences are valid, they can sometimes feel less tangible as time goes on. Through jewellery making, we are reminded that we are real, valid, and adaptable. Just like the pieces we create, play with objects and possibilities without it being set in stone (or resin!) just yet. 

In this 4-hour, one-time weekend workshop, we learn the skills of jewellery making, connect with community by telling our stories and craft, create, adapt, and set a piece of  jewellery that you get to take home with you. Join us in crafting, creating, and learning together. 

What will I learn?

• How to make jewellery

• How to create pendants

• How to set resin

• How to manipulate material

• How to connect with ancestral memories

• How to symbolize experiences into physical forms
  

What will I need?

• All jewellery making materials are provided :)

• Old photos of ancestors (ideally more than one copy of the original, because we’re gonna cut them up to size and if there’s a mistake, we can take the second copy)

• Small objects like buttons, coins, stamps, etc. (Whatever the items, be mentally ready to encase them in resin)

• Your ideas and vulnerability

• Feel free to bring additional materials/textiles

Who is the workshop for?

This entry-level workshop for BIPoC Women*, Women* with Migration, and/or Refugee Background

Basic jewellery making experience is nice but not necessary.
The location is wheelchair accessible. Workshop will be in English with translations available upon request. B1/B2 level English comprehension is recommended. Coffee & Tea will be provided. Lunch will not be provided but there are many options in the Alexanderplatz area.

POSTPONED!!! Will return in the Fall :)

Embroidery & Storytelling Workshop for BIPOC/Migrant/Refugee Women*

A collaborative workshop with artist Ksenia Telepova & Allia Sadeghipour President of Women Writing Berlin Lab (WWBL)

Join us in a FREE embroidery and storytelling workshop for BIPOC/Migrant/Refugee women*come together to share their individual stories, community and/or family histories, learn how to embroider, and represent their knowledge and narratives through textiles embroidered work represented and symbolised with storytelling elements.

The woman's side of a family tree is often not acknowledged or passed on through textile skill sets passing down family and/or community stories. Such histories and skills can disappear under imperialist extortion, appropriation, and colonial processes. For migrant women*, the ability to embroider can help weave their history and narrative together, reflecting on their own experiences and identities, while passing the knowledge onto the next generation.

In this 4-hour, one-time weekend workshop, we hope to help develop the skills to guide you to answering the important questions:  How can you tell your story through embroidery? How can you translate your story into a different medium of expression? How can family stories be passed down through learned skills? Why is it important to have the representation and passing on of family or community knowledge?

Sign-Up for the Workshop Here!!!
You will receive an email confirmation within 48 hours.

What will I learn?

• How to generate creative inspiration

• How to stitch

• How to brainstorm stories and creative ideas

• How to create multi-textile art and stories

• How to strengthen your own identity

• How to express your identity through embroidery and storytelling

• How to tell your story through embroidery

• How to decolonize and empower yourself or through embroidery

• How to tell your narrative/story

• How to become more confident in sharing your history

What will I need?

• All embroidery materials are provided 

• Your ideas and vulnerability

• Feel free to bring additional materials/textiles

Who is the workshop for?

This entry-level workshop for BIPoC Women*, Women* with Migration and/or Refugee Background

Basic stitching experience is nice but not necessary.

The location is on the ground floor with a step which may not be wheelchair accessible. Workshop will be in English with translations available upon request. B1/B2 level English comprehension is recommended. Coffee & Tea will be provided. Lunch will not be provided but there are many options in the Wedding area.

Identity, Embroidery, Empowerment, & Community through Stitching and Root Building

Embroidery & Storytelling Workshop for BIPOC/Migrant/Refugee Women*

A collaborative workshop with artist Ksenia Telepova & Allia Sadeghipour President of Women Writing Berlin Lab (WWBL)

Join us in a FREE embroidery and storytelling workshop for BIPOC/Migrant/Refugee women*come together to share their individual stories, community and/or family histories, learn how to embroider, and represent their knowledge and narratives through textiles embroidered work represented and symbolised with storytelling elements.

The woman's side of a family tree is often not acknowledged or passed on through textile skill sets passing down family and/or community stories. Such histories and skills can disappear under imperialist extortion, appropriation, and colonial processes. For migrant women*, the ability to embroider can help weave their history and narrative together, reflecting on their own experiences and identities, while passing the knowledge onto the next generation.

In this 4-hour, one-time weekend workshop, we hope to help develop the skills to guide you to answering the important questions:  How can you tell your story through embroidery? How can you translate your story into a different medium of expression? How can family stories be passed down through learned skills? Why is it important to have the representation and passing on of family or community knowledge?

Unfortunately, we are completely full and unable to accept more attendees at this time. If you would like, please feel free to email us at womenwritingberlinlab@gmail.com to see if there are any cancellations or additional spots.

What will I learn?

• How to generate creative inspiration

• How to stitch

• How to brainstorm stories and creative ideas

• How to create multi-textile art and stories

• How to strengthen your own identity

• How to express your identity through embroidery and storytelling

• How to tell your story through embroidery

• How to decolonize and empower yourself or through embroidery

• How to tell your narrative/story

• How to become more confident in sharing your history

What will I need?

• All embroidery materials are provided 

• Your ideas and vulnerability

• Feel free to bring additional materials/textiles

Who is the workshop for?

This entry-level workshop for BIPoC Women*, Women* with Migration and/or Refugee Background

Basic stitching experience is nice but not necessary.

The location is wheelchair accessible. Workshop will be in English with translations available upon request. B1/B2 level English comprehension is recommended. Coffee & Tea will be provided. Lunch will not be provided but there are many options in the Wedding area.

Identity, Embroidery, Empowerment, & Community through Stitching and Root Building

Embroidery & Storytelling Workshop for BIPOC/Migrant/Refugee Women*

A collaborative workshop with artist Ksenia Telepova & Allia Sadeghipour President of Women Writing Berlin Lab (WWBL)

Join us in a FREE embroidery and storytelling workshop for BIPOC/Migrant/Refugee women*come together to share their individual stories, community and/or family histories, learn how to embroider, and represent their knowledge and narratives through textiles embroidered work represented and symbolised with storytelling elements.

The woman's side of a family tree is often not acknowledged or passed on through textile skill sets passing down family and/or community stories. Such histories and skills can disappear under imperialist extortion, appropriation, and colonial processes. For migrant women*, the ability to embroider can help weave their history and narrative together, reflecting on their own experiences and identities, while passing the knowledge onto the next generation.

In this 4-hour, one-time weekend workshop, we hope to help develop the skills to guide you to answering the important questions:  How can you tell your story through embroidery? How can you translate your story into a different medium of expression? How can family stories be passed down through learned skills? Why is it important to have the representation and passing on of family or community knowledge?

Unfortunately, we are completely full and unable to accept more attendees at this time. If you would like, please feel free to email us at womenwritingberlinlab@gmail.com to see if there are any cancellations or additional spots.

What will I learn?

• How to generate creative inspiration

• How to stitch

• How to brainstorm stories and creative ideas

• How to create multi-textile art and stories

• How to strengthen your own identity

• How to express your identity through embroidery and storytelling

• How to tell your story through embroidery

• How to decolonize and empower yourself or through embroidery

• How to tell your narrative/story

• How to become more confident in sharing your history

What will I need?

• All embroidery materials are provided 

• Your ideas and vulnerability

• Feel free to bring additional materials/textiles

Who is the workshop for?

This entry-level workshop for BIPoC Women*, Women* with Migration and/or Refugee Background

Basic stitching experience is nice but not necessary.

The location is wheelchair accessible. Workshop will be in English with translations available upon request. B1/B2 level English comprehension is recommended. Coffee & Tea will be provided. Lunch will not be provided but there are many options in the Wedding area.

Identity, Embroidery, Empowerment, & Community through Stitching and Root Building