We are making a second Gleaners quilt to take out with us on trips! Come and join us for some sewing and patchwork in the tradition of radical quilts. We want our quilt to reflect The Gleaners’ diverse community, and connect to memories and migration routes

Thursday 16th July

11am-3pm

Drop by for as long as you’d like!

Food and drink available at our Community Living Room at the same time

Join us for an afternoon of creativity, learning and solidarity. Waltham Forest Anti-Raids network will give an introduction into their work and the need to resist immigration raids from 2-3:30pm, and then from 3:30-6pm we will bring out fabric and quilting supplies to make a Gleaners quilt. There will be snacks to buy on a ‘solidarity pricing’ basis!

Quilting has a rich and often radical history: from archiving family histories to being used in freedom struggles, quilting uses patchwork and needlework to bridge art and craft with storytelling. On Saturday, we will be drawing on this tradition to design and produce a quilt that represents our community, tell stories and map memories and migration routes.

Drop by at The Gleaners for a pay-what-you-can delicious hot and plant-based meal, made out of surplus food (as far as possible). We are open every Thursday 11am - 3pm