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The Aesthetics of Protest: Stitching Memory and Collective Action

Workshops In person

Friday 23 October 2026, 20:00 – 22:30 · Chicago, United States

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Starts
Fri 23 Oct 2026, 20:00
Ends
Fri 23 Oct 2026, 22:30
Type
In person
Category
Workshops
City
Chicago
Country
United States
Venue
PO Box Collective
Address
PO Box Collective, Chicago, IL, United States

About this event

By studying historical textile banners, this workshop addresses how the aesthetics of protest shape social and political change. Grounded in feminist ethics of care, participants w...

By studying historical textile banners, this workshop addresses how the aesthetics of protest shape social and political change. Grounded in feminist ethics of care, participants will create a collective banner and consider connections between art-making, community-building, resistance, and social transformation.
Protest banners carry a long, global history of resistance: suffragist sashes; hand-embroidered abolition banners; khadi (handspun cotton) in India as a symbol of anti-colonial defiance; Sicilian anti-mafia bedsheet banners; and contemporary banners demanding an end to gender…

Hosted by Savneet Talwar

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Luma
Source city
Chicago
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Open source event https://luma.com/g5ph2dvy

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