Event location
The Common Room
Event date
4th March 2026
Event time
12:00 - 14:00
Price
Free
Feminist textile practice with Oitij-jo
As part of Women’s History Month, Republic is supporting a participatory textile workshop that explores feminist solidarity, care, and collective memory through making.
Curated and facilitated by Oitij-jo, this session brings together participants to stitch, embroider, and assemble patchwork using reclaimed and scrap fabrics. Drawing on feminist craft traditions and socially engaged art practices, the workshop uses slow, tactile processes as a way to reflect on women’s labour, migration, displacement, and forms of resistance embedded in everyday making.
Textile practices have long functioned as sites of political expression, storytelling, and communal care. This workshop situates embroidery and patchwork as both material and methodological tools – enabling participants to work intuitively while contributing to a shared, evolving textile that speaks to solidarity across borders and lived experience.
Republic context
This workshop forms part of Republic’s wider commitment to supporting cultural practice, civic participation, and inclusive public space. As a multi-university education campus rooted in East London, Republic provides space for creative and critical activity that brings people together across disciplines, communities, and lived experience. By hosting participatory, artist-led workshops such as this, Republic supports slow, collective forms of learning and exchange that sit alongside – and extend beyond – formal education.
No prior sewing or embroidery experience is required. All materials will be provided, and participants are welcome to engage quietly or conversationally, according to their comfort.
By attending this event, you grant permission for photographs and videos to be taken and used for promotional purposes.
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