Festival of Craftivism

Join us at IPCS on Saturday 7 November for the Festival of Craftivism: a hands-on day of activities exploring the connection between craft and activism, and the ways that artists create visual languages that support liberatory movements.

There are three workshops to choose from as part of the day:

• Create cyanotype images using an assortment of materials with Lardil artist Sonja Hodge (11:30am-2:30pm);
• Contribute to a collective embroidery project with Safa El Samad from Dukkana (11:30am-2:30pm); and
• Design and print your own protest t-shirt with Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung and Wiradjuri man Tiriki Onus (2pm-5pm)

Due to the scheduling, participants are only able to book into one session per person. Registration to each workshop includes a light lunch. 

Event Schedule:

11AM Welcome to Country 

11:30AM - 2:30PM:  Collaborative Embroidery Workshop with Safa El Samad

Contribute to a collaborative embroidery project inspired by protest banners led by Safa El Samad. Learn hand-embroidery techniques, and be gently guided by Safa to contribute to a large-scale textile that will remain at IPCS. This workshop has a capacity of 20 participants.

What to bring: all materials are provided for this workshop. If you have any of your own special materials you’d like to bring and share, you are welcome to

11:30AM - 2:30PM Cyanotype Workshop with Sonja Hodge   

Learn to make your own photograms with Lardil artist Sonja Hodge. These blue images known as sunprints or cyanotypes are a photographic print made without a camera - instead using the power of UV light. Step into the darkroom to learn the process of making light-sensitive paper/fabric, and then create your own sunprints in the IPCS courtyard. This workshop has a capacity of 16 participants. 

What to bring: Please bring along material that you would like to print. Things that work well are reasonably flat objects (like paper cut outs, leaves, flowers, photo transparencies, etc. We will have a printer ready to print images of your choice onto transparencies which you can use to make your cyanotypes.

1:30PM LUNCH/SNACK AND DISCUSSION                                                                                                                                                                           

2PM - 5PM Protest t-shirt making with Tiriki Onus  

Make your own protest t-shirt or item of clothing with Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung and Wiradjuri man Tiriki Onus. Be inspired by the impactful designs of Tiriki’s father, the late great artist Lin Onus, to create your own iconic, wearable design. This workshop has a capacity of 14 participants.

What to bring: Bring along a cotton t-shirt, tote bag or other garment you’d like to print onto. Paints and printing materials will be provided. The process may get messy so please dress in something you don’t mind getting paint on - and bring along an apron if you have one!

Participants attending the t-shirt making are invited to come at 1:30pm for lunch.

Accessibility:

Please note that IPCS is not wheelchair accessible. There are several steps to the room from the front door of the building (78-80 Curzon St). Masks and hand sanitizer will be available, if you have tested positive for c-19 please do not attend. If you have any accessibility queries and/or requirements, please reach out to us at info@ipcs.org.au

IPCS is located on Wurundjeri Country. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri peoples of the Eastern Kulin nation as the sovereign owners and custodians of the land; sovereignty was never ceded and connection to Country is ongoing. IPCS stands with Indigenous struggles for liberation from settler colonialism and imperialism on this land and globally.