

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Story Quilting: Stitching Memory, Healing, and Resilience Workshop
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 04 Apr, 2026 at 01:00 pm – Sat, 04 Apr, 2026 at 04:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Create a story quilt honoring memory, healing, &amp; resilience in this guided workshop with Annie Novotny for Sexual Assault Awareness MonthAbout this EventIn honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, this workshop invites participants into a gentle and creative space to explore personal storytelling through cloth and stitch. Story quilting has long been used as a way to preserve memory, share lived experience, and transform personal and collective histories into visual narratives. In this gathering, participants will be guided to create a small textile piece that represents a moment, feeling, symbol, or truth from their own story—whether that story speaks to resilience, healing, naming, survival, or reclamation.Working with soft fabrics, thread, and simple stitching techniques, we will explore how images, colors, textures, and symbols can communicate what words sometimes cannot. Participants may choose to represent their stories literally or symbolically, drawing on shapes, patterns, and imagery that hold personal meaning. The slow, rhythmic act of stitching offers a grounding and reflective process—one that can hold complexity while allowing space for quiet expression.This workshop draws inspiration from powerful traditions of textile storytelling, including quilts created as coded messages along the Underground Railroad, as well as the narrative works of artists such as Faith Ringgold, Bisa Butler, Tracey Emin, and Louise Bourgeois. Like these artists and makers, we will consider cloth as both a material and a metaphor—something that can carry memory, hold emotion, and connect individual experience to a broader tapestry of human resilience.Participants will be guided through prompts and supportive facilitation to help translate personal themes into visual form. No previous sewing or quilting experience is required. The emphasis is not on technical perfection, but on authentic expression and the creation of meaning through making.All materials will be provided, including fabric, thread, needles, and decorative elements. Participants are welcome to bring small pieces of cloth or textile that hold personal significance if they wish, though this is not required.Together, we will create a temporary community of care—one where stories can be honored, creativity can unfold, and each stitch becomes part of a larger practice of witnessing, healing, and reclaiming voice.  https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/cc14ca20-2c01-11f1-a34b-ab2ddfdabbf9-rimg-w493-h740-dc98704b-gmir.jpg About our Facilitator: Annie Novotny is the founder of Roots and Rays Creative Counseling, a trauma-informed practice centered on collaborative healing. She specializes in supporting survivors of sexual violence and complex trauma through EMDR, expressive arts therapy, somatic work, and parts-based approaches. Annie believes deeply in the power of creative expression to foster resilience, helping clients reconnect with their inner strength, process trauma, and move toward meaningful healing and growth.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/chicago/story-quilting-stitching-memory-healing-and-resilience-workshop/100001984721600735
- **Event Categories**: workshops, art, fine-arts, storytelling
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Chicago
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Roots and Rays Creative Counseling
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- **full address**: Roots and Rays Creative Counseling, 10421 South Church Street, Chicago, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: SAIC Department of Art Therapy & Counseling (https://allevents.in/org/saic-department-of-art-therapy-and-counseling/26624044)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 04 Apr, 2026 at 01:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Roots and Rays Creative Counseling, 10421 South Church Street, Chicago, United States
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** SAIC Department of Art Therapy & Counseling
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** workshops, art, fine-arts, storytelling
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