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First workshop: “Threads of the Diaspora”
October 11, 2024The workshop will be held on Friday, October 11, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe headquarters (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
The workshop will be held on Friday, October 11, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
5 euros (including materials).
In Spanish.
On Friday, October 11, we will be holding the first gathering - workshop
dedicated to the Palestinian tatreez or embroidery in Madrid. Buy your
ticket online and #EmbroiderPalestine with us. SOLD OUT.
Using the scraps from different pieces that will be created during the workshops and gatherings, we will be putting together a collective work: a panel from a Gazan dress connected with scraps in the diaspora.
Each participant will be given a piece of that panel to embroider, and they will also be able to choose different Palestinian embroidery motifs that can be donated to complete the rest of the work. These pieces will be connected through different threads representing the Palestinian people in the diaspora. From home or wherever you happen to be, you can also choose motifs of your own and send them in to us so that we can include them in the piece.
These workshops, designed to be spaces for meeting and sharing, will be held on two Fridays per month at Casa Árabe, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. (tickets are being sold for each individual workshop). Those who have already taken part in prior workshops may come and start embroidering right away. Those who are coming for the first time will be watching a theoretical presentation (15 minutes), about the tatreez in Palestinian history and culture, its variants by regions, its dimensions and meanings, as well as taking part in a practical embroidery session.
To finish off the event, in commemoration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, on the evening of November 30 we will be inviting those of you who already know how to embroider to participate in a marathon Palestinian embroidery gathering, also from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m., where we can all get together to continue making embroidery and connect with other groups of embroiderers from different places all over the world.
From December 13 to 14, the collective work will be put together, in order to exhibit the panel during the week of December 16, and it will remain on display at Casa Árabe’s headquarters in Madrid during the winter holiday and month of January, along with the scraps which you embroider from home and from different locations.
The Palestinian embroidery motifs that you embroider at home and the instructions for making those embroidery pieces will be posted soon on the website. We will be publishing a PDF file with 17 models and the embroidery instructions.
Image: Qowara hijab, Gaza