MAKE|DO Clothing Jam with Germaine Koh and Community Fabric Collective
FRI NOV 24 / 3 – 7PM
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Ground floor lobby,
149 West Hastings Street
MAKE|DO is a series of collective making and doing events convened by SFU Shadbolt Fellow Germaine Koh during the 2023-24 academic year.
The afternoon-evening of Friday 24 November in the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts lobby, join Koh and the Community Fabric collective for a clothing jam using recuperated clothing or your own clothes. This is an opportunity to: alter or mash-up pieces of clothing, add pockets to pocket-less clothes, mend some clothing, or improvise something from scratch with the materials on hand. Sewing machines, mending supplies, and a quantity of donated clothing will be available, and the collective of sewers ready to help and to co-create.
Community Fabric is an ad hoc collective of artists, curators, textile designers, costume designers, and academics coming from diverse cultural backgrounds. They are enthusiasts for sharing knowledge and supporting creative practice in accessible forms, and see the power of fabric to create community, belonging, and space for conversation. This clothing jam continues their work upcycling textiles.
While in the building, also visit Germaine Koh's WARES exhibit of clothing items tailored from fabric hand-woven by Koh from deconstructed clothing and plastic bags, in The Cabinet outside room 4390, curated by Denise Oleksijczuk (https://www.sfu.ca/sca/events---news/events/wares.html).
