Imagined Worlds: Nets, Knots and Space Crones

“If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it's useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own hair, or what have you, and then take it home with you, home being another, larger kind of pouch or bag, a container for people, and then later on you take it out and eat it or share it or store it up for winter in a solider container or put it in the medicine bundle or the shrine or the museum, the holy place, the area that contains what is sacred, and then next day you probably do much the same again--if to do that is human, if that's what it takes, then I am a human being after all. Fully, freely, gladly, for the first time."

Join us at Lewisham Libraries for macrame workshops inspired by sci-fi writer Ursula Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. We will weave and knot our own straps to carry our own belongings – think reusable water bottles, keys and phones! Learning simple macrame techniques together, we will discuss Le Guin’s wonderful essay (we’ll have copies and print outs!) about the power of telling stories differently. Beginners welcome, suitable for 14+ and anyone interested in feminist science fiction.

This event is part of the Imagined Worlds series, a month-long celebration of fantasy and sci-fi exploring world-building and utopian and dystopian futures.

Host or Publisher Lewisham Library & Information Service