Event
Launch of the programme and a chance to view Brigid and the Brat Bhríde, created by Interwoven, a sub-group of the Dolmen Climate Change Network. St Brigid’s cloak was woven from reclaimed materials collected from local beaches.
The Exploding Wardrobe - A talk and hands-on drop-in workshop with textile artist Gillian Steel.
Talk
Our wardrobes offer an explosion of stories about our clothing – where it came from? who made it and how? It also offers huge potential to reconnect to our natural inclinations to make, mend and reinvent not just our clothing by our world and how we live in it.
A Drop-in Hands-on Workshop
Making and mending things is a critical part of being human, it also creates space for us to relax or to be social and build a sense of ourselves as beings who can fix things.
Pop-in to join in a session of printing unique patches to mend your clothes with and to learn some decorative Japanese Sashiko stitch mending techniques.
Talk
Charlotte McReynolds is the curator of ‘Ashes to Fashion: A Collection Reborn’ and author of an accompanying book about the history of the museum’s collection of textiles and fashion.
During her talk she will explain how the Ulster Museum’s original collection of over 10,000 items of dress and textiles was destroyed by a fire in 1976, and how, 50 years later, the collection has been rebuilt from scratch and is stronger than ever.
Join artist/film maker Kevin Cameron for this hands-on workshop and learn how to bring ideas to life using stop-frame animation.
Working in small teams on iPads, participants will create short, animated films exploring fashion and sustainability. Using clothing, materials and simple props, you’ll experiment with storytelling, animation techniques, editing and sound to produce your own creative piece.
No previous experience is needed—just curiosity and imagination.
Talk
Newry & Mourne Museum Curator, Shân McAnena will talk about the local embroidery industry known as flowering which employed thousands of local women working from home in the 19th and 20th centuries.
For more information please contact; declan.carroll@nmandd.org