LGBTQ+ History Month Embroidery Portraits Workshop
This years history month is highlighting Octavia Hill, Ivor Cummings, Anni Kenney, Charlie Kiss and Olaudah Equiano and we are celebrating these amazing people during this creative workshop and sharing our finished art work at an event at Triangle on the evening of the 8th February.
Working with artist E.M Parry and Anna Rosa Astell we will take our inspiration from small miniatures and portraits. We can include images, text, embroidery, embellishments and anything inspiring we want to add and create small keepsakes / embroidered portraits about the five inspirational LGBTQ+ historical figures
Workshop starts at 2pm, arrive 1.30 for coffee. Feel free to bring your own scissors or decorative items to add, we will provide all the materials and archive.
E.M. Parry is a trans*disciplinary artist and award-winning theatre maker, working across scenography, live art, cabaret and drag, squinting at history, flirting with ghosts and the things that go bump in the margins. They recently completed a PhD exploring queer and trans history through creative practice, and are currently working on projects with the Museum of London and Greenwich Maritime Museum.
Anna Rosa Astell is the co founder of Triangle LGBTQ+ Cultural Centre and a queer history obsessive. They make fabulously camp garments and art work often hand printed, sewn, embellished and embroidered. They run Triangle’s LGBTQIA+ cinema, education programme and social club events tied to queer history.. every now and then they play goth dulcimer in the Triangle House band.. they like making fabulous things that tell a story and helping others to make fabulous things too!
This workshop is free and funded by Lewisham Council