Stitch and Time

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Lois Klassen and Lori Weidenhammer, "Slofemists," 2018

collaborative and participatory artwork, Emily Carr University Library. Photo: Lois Klassen.

Stitch and Time

Terre Chartrand and Heather Majaury, Stacey Fayant, Lois Klassen and Lori Weidenhammer, and Mindy Yan Miller and Suzanne Miller.

Curated by W. Peart, Curator of Education & Community Outreach and B. Fornwald, Curator, Moving Image and Performance

Nuit Blanche Opening: SUNDAY, September 29, 7:00 pm - midnight

Featuring installations, performances, workshops and community stitching sessions, A Stitch and Time investigates stitching as traditional practice, as activism, as a means of commemoration, and as a tool for community building and intercultural exchange.  In Lori Weidenhammer and Lois Klassen’s Slofemist project, community members join the artists to create embroidered patches commemorating feminist heroes. Mindy Yan Miller and Suzanne Miller’s Needle and Thread is a commemorative performance and installation wherein the names of the victims of the Holocaust are stitched onto a dress created from cast-off clothing.  To address the Truth & Reconciliation’s Call to Action #93, Heather Majaury and Terre Chartrand’s Neighbours: A Community Quilting Project encourages story sharing between newcomers to Canada and Indigenous peoples. In Hand-Sewn with Love/kashkwaykashoon a maen avik shakihitowin Métis artist Stacey Fayant will provide comfort, love and medicine by tattooing the skin of friends using traditional skin-stitching methods. 

The Generator is a seasonal presentation series featuring community engaged projects that are created or led by artists, and often presented in alternative and digital spaces to increase access to art and artists.