Free drop-in textile workshop led by artist Jane Thakoordin to create a handmade keepsake, followed by a performance of Inua Ellams' drama 'Once Upon a Time in Sokoto'.
Jane Thakoordin is leading a textile workshop at the Warwick Arts Centre on Thursday 5 November, from 5pm to 7.30pm. It's part of the Creative Socials sessions, which are designed for students but open to everyone, so it's as much for people living around Coventry as it is for those on campus.
Thakoordin is a Birmingham-based textile artist, and the session is a hands-on one: you'll be making a portable shrine using hand-stitching techniques. The workshop works around ideas of home, connection and resilience, and you'll leave with your own handmade keepsake. It's a drop-in, so you don't need to be an expert with a needle and thread to get involved.
The evening doesn't stop there. Once the workshop wraps up, the night continues with Once Upon a Time in Sokoto, the award-winning drama by Inua Ellams, directed by Roy Alexander Weise. It's a gripping family drama set against the events leading up to the creation of Nigeria, so you're getting two very different things in one night: a quiet, creative start and a full-on stage play to follow.
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The whole thing is supported by Together at Warwick, and the Creative Socials are built as a chance to switch off, get creative and spend time with other people. The workshop runs in the Gallery Foyer of the Warwick Arts Centre, on the University of Warwick campus at Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry. It's free and drop-in, from 5pm to 7.30pm on Thursday 5 November.
