Across Our Queer Bodies:
A Sash Decorating Workshop Celebrating LGBTQIA2S+ History Month
Celebrate LGBTQIA2S+ History Month by joining queer interdisciplinary artist Sarah Wong in a textile workshop that explores sashes as wearable objects that reflect both movements of resistance and expressions of fantastical glamour. Each participant will be given a pre-sewn sash and materials to decorate it. They will also be guided through a brainstorming session to conjure imagery, memories, and language to inspire their crafting, with a sentiment of dedicating their sash to personal and communal icons of LGBTQ2IAS+ history. Facilitated from an embodied approach, participants will be encouraged to craft as a form of care, and to reflect on the ways their bodies can act as a canvas and archive for expressions of queer multiplicity.
No sewing or textile experience required. All materials will be provided, but guests are welcome to bring their own personal objects and materials (pins, patches, etc.) that they may want to include in their sash decorating.
Date: Friday, October 27, 2023
Time: 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Tickets: Sliding scale, $15-20 (plus fees and taxes)
(Note that this event had previously been scheduled for Oct. 15)
Kindly note that this event is mask-mandatory. Face masks will be provided onsite. A reminder that this workshop is only open for registration to those who identify as part of the LGBTQIA2S+ community. At the MOV we work to program a mix of spaces for community and their allies to connect and learn from each other. But for this limited capacity workshop, we request that allies help us make space for just those in community. Thank you for your understanding and allyship!
Sarah Wong
Sarah Wong is an emerging writer, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, Canada on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her work emerges from her lived experience as a queer and disabled second-generation Chinese-Canadian woman, focusing on archival processes and accessing embodied intergenerational knowledge. Her works have taken the form of score-based improvisational performances, ritual-based research, site-specific installation, wearable textiles, poetry, film, and multimedia zines. She is devoted to nurturing practices of care, creating and facilitating spaces for bodies to rest. You can learn more about her work at sarahwong.ca / @swongski