Craft Action Collective
Craft Action Collective meets together to talk, discuss and make together. We learn new art-making techniques, whilst also thinking about injustice and hope. It’s quiet activism for everyone, including introverts, using the medium of craft to think about big issues.
Craft Action sessions focus on using art and craft activities to think deeply and respond to injustice in a gentle and careful way. We think about stories in the news or issues that are being highlighted through SAW’s exhibitions, and be creative together. It’s quiet activism for everyone, including introverts, using the medium of craft.
The crafts we use and topics we think about are varied. Last year, we thought about: climate change and biodiversity; storytelling as an act of protest; the news and who makes decisions about which stories are headlines; the housing crisis and how to disagree well. Crafts have included: lino printing, zine making, sewing, book making, letterpress printing, and making dyes from plants.
“I have found the Craft Collective workshops so welcoming, gently challenging and personally nurturing“
Craft Action group member
Coming up at Craft Action Collective…
Posters and Zines
Monday 1st June //
1:45 – 3:45pm
Posters and Zines
Tuesday 16th June //
6.30pm – 8pm
Posters and Zines
Monday 6th July //
1:45 – 3:45pm
Craft TBC
Tuesday 21st July //
6.30pm – 8pm
Join us for creative workshops with artist Toby Lloyd, where we’ll explore attitudes to work (of all kinds, paid and unpaid), how we value ‘free’ time and issues surrounding the possibility of a Universal Basic Income. Over two sessions, we’ll make posters and zines thinking about:
Everyday rituals – ordinary, often unnoticed actions we carry out everyday, like eating, sleeping, looking at our phones or walking. How might our everyday rituals be different if free time was valued differently by society?
Universal Basic Income – a policy where everyone in society would receive regular and unconditional monthly payments regardless of their means and without any requirements to work or on how the money is used. What impact would this have on you and the rest of society?
