- Venue
- Fidra events room: St Columba's Hospice Edinburgh
- Starts
- Saturday, August 10, 2024
- Ends
- Friday, August 23, 2024
- Address
- 15 Boswall Rd, Edinburgh EH5 3RW
- Location
- Scotland
- Organiser
- Heather Ridley-Moran in collaboration with St Columba's Hospice
How do we form and signify community belonging and personal attachment through clothing? Can the symbolism of a journey be used to explore our individual attitudes and ideas to death and loss?
These are questions Heather Ridley-Moran posed when designing Jacket For A Journey– a participatory arts project in collaboration with St Columba’s Hospice in Grafton, Edinburgh.
Comprising of two all-day drop-in motorbike patch making workshops delivered at St Columba’s and a celebratory evening bringing the project to a close, participants are invited to collaborate in the gradual decoration of vintage leather jackets. A range of textile fabrication materials will be provided to create patches reflective of ideas surrounding hospice care, loss, and death or simply to engage with the creative process within the hospice environment.
Members of The Leithal Weapons a local motorbike group will attend the workshops and celebratory evening, showcasing the completed patch filled jackets on a group ride which departs from St Columba’s on the 23rd August to mark the projects close.
Patch Making workshops 10th and 19th August 11:00 – 18:00
Celebratory Close 23rd August 18:00 – 19:30
