Festival of Archaeology Embroidery Workshop

Join artist Sarah Li in this free workshop exploring Durham University’s Ancient Greek and Roman Collections to discuss LGBTQIA+ histories, respond to the collections through Queer storytelling and create your own piece of embroidery.

Complete beginners are welcome, as are experienced embroiderers! Sarah will be giving instructions on how to do some basic embroidery which can result in storytelling with embroidered words, or you could create an image.

Location: 7 Owen Gate

Date: Sunday 21st July 2024

Time: 10am-12pm

Please sign up to the workshop beforehand as this workshop has a limited number of places.

‘Sappho’ by Sarah Li. Embroidery piece created for ‘Fragments’ performance by Unlearn and Publish (Sarah Li and Bex Harvey) after the Sappho bust at Durham Castle.

Image description:

Colour photograph of an artwork. An embroidered image of Sappho, a woman from ancient Greece. She is made up of different shades of purple threads on a bright red fabric. She has curly hair and is wearing a hat.

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