Join us at Kettle’s Yard for a panel discussion about our current exhibition Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, with exhibition curator Rachel Dedman and artists Aya Haidar and Maeve Brennan. In this panel discussion the speakers will discuss themes emerging from the exhibition, such the role of Palestinian embroidery today and the ways in which this traditional practice is expressed in contemporary art.
£10 (£8 Friends, £5 Students), booking required
Join us in the galleries for an informal exhibition tour of Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery with Kettle’s Yard Curator and Exhibitions Manager, Guy Haywood.
FREE, come along
Image: Detail of dress from Beit Dajan, 1930s. From the collection of George M. Al-Ama. © the Whitworth, The University of Manchester. Photography by Ruth Wedgbury.
Join Cambridge Visual Culture and Kettle’s Yard for a screening of the documentary film Stitching Palestine (dir. Carol Mansour, 2017) featuring the testimonies of twelve diasporic Palestinian women connected by the practice of tatreez, followed by a panel conversation with speakers on the cultural histories and identities reflected in Palestinian embroidery.
FREE, booking required
Image: Still from Stitching Palestine (2017)
Join us at for a special talk in the Kettle’s Yard house with Rachel Dedman, curator of our exhibition Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery. Rachel will trace the evolution of embroidered dress in Palestine over the last century: from embroidery’s historical traditions to its politicisation after 1948, its role in resistance and its significance today.
Join us in the galleries for an informal exhibition tour of Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery with Kettle’s Yard Assistant Curator (Projects) Naomi Polonsky.
FREE, come along
Join us in the galleries for an informal exhibition tour of Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery with Kettle’s Yard Assistant Curator (House & Collection) Eliza Spindel.
FREE, come along
Join us in the galleries for an informal introduction to Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery with Kettle’s Yard Director Andrew Nairne.
FREE, come along
Image: Detail of dress from Beit Dajan, 1930s. From the collection of George M. Al-Ama. © the Whitworth, The University of Manchester. Photography by Ruth Wedgbury.
Join us for a special afternoon of talks and discussion about Palestinian embroidery, its history and importance today, with the exhibition curator and collectors and experts from the region.
2 – 2.50pm: Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery curator Rachel Dedman discusses the origins of the exhibition and its presentation in Cambridge and Manchester, followed by audience questions and discussion. Introduced and chaired by Eliza Spindel, Assistant Curator, Kettle’s Yard.
Join us for the opening night of Topos Embodied, an exhibition by artists Justyna Borucka and Cat Vitebsky at the Museum of Classical Archaeology.
