Threads that Unite Us | Hilos que Nos Unen

Location: FIMS & Nursing Building Atrium
Day/Time: October 2 (10 AM - 4 PM) and October 3 (9 AM - 12 PM)

Everyone is welcome at this drop in event!

Join us for a collective embroidery gathering led by Salvadoran embroiderer and visiting artist Teresa Cruz, where each participant will stitch a small piece that will be joined into a larger tapestry of resistance. Through the slow, mindful act of embroidery, we will use craft as a tool of solidarity and defiance against fascism, white supremacy, authoritarianism, the escalating attacks on trans lives and on 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, and the persistence of misogyny. Each stitch is both personal and communal - an image, a word, or a symbol of resistance - that becomes part of a larger fabric uniting our struggles.

This is a drop in event: start your own piece, or pick up where another participant left off to keep the project moving forward. Guided by intergenerational knowledge and traditions of textile art as political memory, we come together as students, faculty and staff to create art that both resists and heals. 

Accompanying artists: Soheila K. Esfahani, Tricia Johnson, and Kayla MacInnes.

This event is co-sponsored by the Faculty of Information and Media Studies and the Rogers Chair of Studies in Journalism and New Information Technology, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Visual Arts, the Department of Languages and Cultures, the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, the Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador project, the Liberia CRSV project, and Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen. It is also supported by the Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.