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Workshop 1. Embroidering Dreams of a Palestinian Garden
January 24, 2025The workshop will be taking place on Friday, January 24, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe headquarters (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
The workshop will be taking place on Friday, January 24, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
5 euros (including materials). Workshops for adults and children as of 6 years old (children under 12 years of age must be accompanied). No more than 20 people per workshop.
In Spanish.
In 2025, our workshops are returning on tatreez (Palestinian embroidery). The first of them will be held on Friday, January 24, and you can already sign up to take part. Don’t miss out and take part in this collaborative project to embroider for the Palestinian cause.
From January through April 2025, we are organizing new workshops in Madrid under the title “Embroidering dreams of a Palestinian garden” with the support of AECID.
The 2025 workshops give continuity to the project Threads of the Diaspora: Weaving scraps of Palestinian heritage, begun last year. At these gatherings, we will be collectively embroidering “Dreams of a Palestinian garden” without rubble, which we will be connecting to the central panel of the Palestinian dress from Gaza that we are putting together using the pieces from the fall workshops and those that you have sent in to us from home.
Each participant will be given one of the 20 pieces of the rolling garden that will be hung from the panel and the embroideries of “Threads of the Diaspora,” containing different motifs designed by the Spanish-Palestinian teacher and artist Maysun Cheikh Ali Mediavilla, who will be teaching the workshops. At the following workshops, participants will take up the embroidery of these pieces until the collective work has been completed. It will be put on display with the Gazan dress panel at Casa Árabe.
The workshops/gatherings are defined as spaces for meeting and exchange. Those of you who have already participated in previous workshops will be able to come and start embroidering right away. For those of you who are coming to learn about it for the first time ever, there will be a theoretical presentation (15 min), about tatreez in Palestinian history and culture, its regional variants, its dimensions and meaning, plus a practical embroidery session.
This program is supported by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
The 2025 workshops give continuity to the project Threads of the Diaspora: Weaving scraps of Palestinian heritage, begun last year. At these gatherings, we will be collectively embroidering “Dreams of a Palestinian garden” without rubble, which we will be connecting to the central panel of the Palestinian dress from Gaza that we are putting together using the pieces from the fall workshops and those that you have sent in to us from home.
Each participant will be given one of the 20 pieces of the rolling garden that will be hung from the panel and the embroideries of “Threads of the Diaspora,” containing different motifs designed by the Spanish-Palestinian teacher and artist Maysun Cheikh Ali Mediavilla, who will be teaching the workshops. At the following workshops, participants will take up the embroidery of these pieces until the collective work has been completed. It will be put on display with the Gazan dress panel at Casa Árabe.
The workshops/gatherings are defined as spaces for meeting and exchange. Those of you who have already participated in previous workshops will be able to come and start embroidering right away. For those of you who are coming to learn about it for the first time ever, there will be a theoretical presentation (15 min), about tatreez in Palestinian history and culture, its regional variants, its dimensions and meaning, plus a practical embroidery session.
This program is supported by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
