Feminist Craft Circle - August - 1 Year Anniversary!

Tuesday, August 19 from 6pm - 8pm

🎉 The Feminist Craft Circle is celebrating it's one year anniversary! For the month of August, we will meet at the NENA Butterfly Garden on the corner of Douglas Ave. and Ann St. The garden serves as a focal point in the neighborhood where people, pollinators (the butterfly and bee variety) and native perennials meet. Come craft in this beautiful, inspiring landscape!

Sitting together to work on manual crafts has a long history, and for periods was looked down upon as a space for unimportant women’s work. In the past decades, feminist artists have skillfully reappropriated these practices as possible places of empowerment, resistance and protest. This event is open to anyone.

You’re welcome to bring your own project to work on, to start a new one or even to just be present. Come prepared to share skills, help troubleshoot projects and receive assistance when needed.

Beginner embroidery and crochet kits will be available for purchase. If you would like to work with another technique, reach out to us and we may be able to provide materials or at least help you figure out what to look for.

RSVP and reserve beginner kits by sending an email to YWR2b2NhY3kgfCBzaWRlc3RyZWV0c3R1ZGlvYXJ0cyAhIG9yZw==.

You may also like the following events from Side Street Studio Arts:

• Next Wednesday, 20th August, 07:00 pm, Open Mic - August in Elgin
• This month, 25th August, 05:00 pm, Elgin Arts Happy Hour Hosted by Elgin Master Chorale in Elgin
• Next month, 6th September, 08:00 pm, September Sip & Paint in Elgin