Holding the Baby: Banner making workshop
SATURDAY 16 OCTOBER / 12-3PM
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Holding the Baby is a project by artist Polly Braden, inspired by the United Nations poverty expert Philip Alston who came to the UK in 2019 to look at the effects of austerity. He concluded that single parents have been hardest hit. Over the last two years Polly has worked with Fran, Jahanara, Charmaine, Aaron, Barbeline, Caroline, Gemma, Carike and their children to represent each of their stories. These photographs have been made in collaboration: sometimes even taken by the parents themselves, after Polly has set up the camera. They capture their optimism, creativity, ambition and resilience, transcending the often difficult situations they face.
For this event, pattern designer and illustrator Lydia Meiying will lead a free banner-making workshop at Open Eye Gallery, which will ask for your response to the question: what would make the biggest change to single parent families?
All workshop materials will be provided. The resulting banners will be displayed in the gallery over the course of the weekend and documented as part of the wider project.
Local ukulele band, The UkuLaLas and the women ukulele players from WHISC will perform at the end of the workshop at 3pm. The UkuLaLas are a group of mates who play and love the ukulele. They do gigs for dementia patients, open mics and requests.
Book here, drop in also available.
SATURDAY 16 OCTOBER / 12-3PM
REGISTER HERE
Holding the Baby is a project by artist Polly Braden, inspired by the United Nations poverty expert Philip Alston who came to the UK in 2019 to look at the effects of austerity. He concluded that single parents have been hardest hit. Over the last two years Polly has worked with Fran, Jahanara, Charmaine, Aaron, Barbeline, Caroline, Gemma, Carike and their children to represent each of their stories. These photographs have been made in collaboration: sometimes even taken by the parents themselves, after Polly has set up the camera. They capture their optimism, creativity, ambition and resilience, transcending the often difficult situations they face.
For this event, pattern designer and illustrator Lydia Meiying will lead a free banner-making workshop at Open Eye Gallery, which will ask for your response to the question: what would make the biggest change to single parent families?
All workshop materials will be provided. The resulting banners will be displayed in the gallery over the course of the weekend and documented as part of the wider project.
Local ukulele band, The UkuLaLas and the women ukulele players from WHISC will perform at the end of the workshop at 3pm. The UkuLaLas are a group of mates who play and love the ukulele. They do gigs for dementia patients, open mics and requests.
Book here, drop in also available.