Please join us for the first of three Winter 2025 installations of Bertha’s Harris Women’s Center workshops, Stitches to Hold the World Together on Thursday, Jan. 9 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm (or later) in Building 2N, Room 106.
In the workshop series, we have been focusing on understanding the ways in which women’s traditions of stitching have helped them to “hold their worlds together” in the face of displacement, poverty, enslavement, war, isolation, and other challenges. We celebrate the resiliency of women’s stitching traditions as we learn about them and get to make them ourselves.
This winter, we are focusing on taking positive steps in the darkness of the season through stitching as we make affirmative messages to send into the world, capture the beauty of flowers in cross stitch, and make “junk journals” where we can process our experiences.
Throughout the Spring semester, our Stitches to Hold the World Together will focus on our theme of “Blossom and Bloom with Bertha” as we move to foster community and belonging among women and their allies on the CSI campus. We will be partnering with Sustainability to plant flowers on campus and studying together the contributions of women to the important science of botany. Watch this space for more information.
Please join us for this workshop where we will use “slow stitching” — contemplative, open-ended, creative stitching — as both therapy for jangled nerves and as a way to send out positive messages into the world. This is an easy project for every level of stitcher, including beginners. All are welcome to come and learn together in community. All supplies will be provided. Come have some tea and cookies and chat as we create together.
All are welcome — students, staff, and faculty. This event is underwritten by funds from the late Jean Roland, long a supporter of the Bertha Harris Women’s Center.
By the Bertha Harris Women’s Center
