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Poverty & The Arts - Community Sewing Bee Day 2

  • Poverty & The Arts 1114-A 3rd Ave S Nashville, TN 37210 United States (map)

Join us at the Poverty & the Arts Studio + Gallery for another day of Community Sewing Bees!

Nashville is joining cities around the country to create one of 84 specially designed quilts for a national project called “Then a Cunning Voice and a Night We Spend Gazing at the Stars.” 

This multi-year project brings people together at Sewing Bees to answer questions about their city: 

“What do you want for your well-being? For your family and your friends? Your neighborhood? Your city, town, or reserve?”

The responses generate joy, reflection, and responsibility:

“I want my city to love itself more.”
“The Mayor of Richfield wants free mental health clinics.”
Someone writes, “A full happy life for our son.”

These intention statements will be gathered and sewn together to create Nashville’s contribution to this cross-country project—a single quilt that will become just a small part of a 4,000-square foot creation.

Please join us. ALL ARE WELCOME! NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!

“Then a Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing at Stars” was created by Emily Johnson/Catalyst, a dance company based in Minneapolis and New York City. Textile design is by Maggie Thompson.

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Poverty & the Arts provides financial, professional, and personal opportunities to artists overcoming homelessness. In addition to earning creative income which helps increase housing stability, artists gain professional and social skills which helps increase their access to higher waged employment and gain confidence and emotional stability.

Source:: https://www.facebook.com/events/1919849431374732/
Earlier Event: May 21
Poverty & The Arts Community Sewing Bee
Later Event: August 19
World Premiere of Then A Cunning Voice and A Night We Spend Gazing At Stars
Office, Minneapolis, MN, US612.597.7400emily@catalystdance.com

Emily Johnson / Catalyst is based on Mannahatta in Lenapehoking. We work to pay respect to Lenape homeland, people and ancestors past, present, and future by organizing with communities from the Lenape diaspora to build pathways for Lenapeyok return. We have been taught to name Lenape Nations and say cama’i to our relatives from Delaware Tribe of Indians in Bartlesville, OK; Delaware Nation of Oklahoma in Anadarko, OK; Stockbridge-Munsee and Mohican Community in Wisconsin; Moravian Delaware of the Thames in Ontario, Canada; Munsee-Delaware Nation at Munceytown in Ontario, Canada; Delaware of Six Nations in Ontario, Canada. 

We strive to be in good relations with our kin—human and more than human—and in effort to support growing kinstillatory relations and sovereign, liberated futures we are anti-colonial and abolitionist in all capacities. We are committed to on-the-ground water and land protection, consistent decolonization work, and Land Back. 

Quyanaqvaa-lli elpeni to all Sovereign Nations, Indigenous and First Nations people who live in relation to and from Lenapehoking and upon whose lands we work and tour.

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