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Workshop 2 on Palestinian embroidery in Madrid
February 07, 2025The workshop will be taking place on Friday, February 7, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe headquarters (at Calle Alcalá, 62).
The workshop will be taking place on Friday, February 7, 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.
On Friday, February 7 we will be hosting a new Palestinian embroidery workshop (tatreez), to learn about this handmade craft and contribute to a collaborative project that will be displayed at our headquarters in Madrid. Sign up now and #EmbroiderPalestine!
These year 2025 workshops, supported by the AECID, are being held to give continuation 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).
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).
