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Postcards from Home – Launch weekend

LAUNCH

THURSDAY 26TH NOVEMBER

If you missed the Postcards from Home project launch you can send any questions about the postcard exchange, different ways to participate and the workshops scheduled as part of the project, culminating in the CONNECT event in Maribor, Slovenia in 2021 to the Pioneer Projects team, join Amateo and Connect on Facebook and register for project updates.

6-8PM (GMT +1CET/+2EET), FRIDAY 27TH NOVEMBER

Galway-based visual artist Jennifer Cunningham leading a workshop on self portraiture, using collage to represent aspects of the self and home. Find out more
[Image: ‘Telling Stories’ by Jennifer Cunningham. See more examples of Jennifer’s work]

11AM-1.30PM (GMT +1CET/+2EET), SATURDAY 28TH NOVEMBEr

Galway-based textile artist Kathy Ross, sharing her techniques of ‘painting with wool, drawing with thread’. Download a sketch template of Galway Bay and list of materials needed, or use your own scene and Kathy will guide you through the embroidery and needle felting techniques to complete the scene.
[Image: ‘Rasai Na Hucieri’ by Kathy Ross. See more examples of Kathy’s landscape work]

5-7.30PM (GMT +1CET/+2EET), MONDAY 30TH NOVEMBER

Bookbinder Cassandra Barron, guiding the process for a cut and fold book, a simple pamphlet stitch book and a Japanese stab book that you can use to collect and bind your Postcards from Home ideas.


Postcards from Home project is supported by funding from Culture of Solidarity programme led by European Cultural Foundation

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