An event series organised and faciliated by Bronwen Jones and Dasha Golova.
Textile Initiative is an event series that welcomes the public to experiment and engage with textile crafts. The programme begins from the theme of textile, using it to bring together community to share knowledge, stories, skills and time. We embrace textile as a metaphor for weaving, breaking, and repairing social fabric.
The first programme took place in June and July 2024 across different locations in Amsterdam and featured the projects of 13 artists and practioners with a relation to textile. Over five events there were workshops, performances, and readings that expanded on the topic of textile while weaving in other practices relating to tradition, preservation, ecology, and technology. The featured artists/practioners were: Lieke Wouters, Matilda Kenttä, Suzanne Bernhardt, Sasha Van Aalst, Romy Day Winkel, Meghan Clarke, Ellen Yiu, Miriam Del Seppia, Masha Maroz, Elena Braida, Inês Quierós, Samira Vogel and Julina Vanille Bezold.
This programme was kindly supported by AFK and Stichting Stokroos.
You can watch video documentation from the first series here.
Find the full programme here.
Follow us on instagram here.
We aim to continue organising more editions of Textile Initiative in the future.
Contact us at textile.initiative@gmail.com
Documentation by Arvo Leo