Craftivism for COP26: We are knitting, crocheting, stitching and crafting to put Earth - not money - centre stage at the climate talks.
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Read all about it 👇 Don't miss this report about the cultural protests at COP26 featuring us 😁 – at Edinburgh, Scotland
If you missed the launch day buzz, be sure to read this fantastic report asking why COPs provide a special context for arts & culture
By @CCScotland, @LewisCoenenRowe & @wallaceheim, commissioned by #CreaTuresEU and featuring some wonderful case studies
bit.ly/ArtsatCOP26
Good to be out at Edinburgh #Cop27 solidarity march #ClimateJusticeNow #ClimateAction – at Edinburgh, Scotland
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#GentleProtest Activism for anxious people…🪡🧵
Introverted & burn out at demonstrations? Highly Sensitive Person? Limited by illness or location?
#Craftivism can help you campaign quietly🤫
Created for #CraftivistHandbook
Preorder @unbounders 📚🤓👉 unbound.com/books/craftivist… – at Hackney, London
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So happy my textile panel made for the @StitchesFor mass craftivism scarf @COP26 is now being displayed at St.Marys Cathedral Chapter House in Edinburgh along with many others
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My panel represents the glacial melting
#ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #textiles
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The inspiring story of the #ComfortBlanketForOurPanet and it's journey to #COP26 (in heels by bike - amazing!) The video ends on Glasgow Green with the #Stitches4Survival panels 💚💙💚💙 #ClimateAction youtu.be/i-4IWO2ZzBA – at Bristol, England
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Brave woman @marysrpar in Houston, Renfrewshire, Scotland on her 1st #WomensClimateStrike/#Fridays4Future strike! She got aversion/sniggering, curiosity, thumbs up & a couple of chats. Amazing people like this, going out into communities across the world, give this striker hope.
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UK consumers throw away 227,000 MILES of wrapping paper each Christmas. 🎀
That's enough to wrap around the Earth more than eight times. 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁
Do you use reusable and recycled packaging?
#smallbiz #elevenseshour
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Setting up Bristol #stitches4survival panels for a joining session with @AidBoxCommunity today 💚💙💚💙💚💙 – at Bristol, England
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At the @AidBoxCommunity shop 💚💙💚💙 We are so excited about joining their women's craft group this month and next to repurpose our Bristol #stitches4survival panels into blankets for them. #craftivism #climateaction – at Bristol, England
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6 weeks today it's the International Women's Day of Climate Action: The Wait of the World. Women are disproportionately carry the burden ⚖️of waiting 🕖for climate action.
♀️ around the world are organising, but need others to join them 👇womensclimatestrike.com/iwd-…
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📢#WomensClimateStrike take global action on 8th March 📢
📢#FridaysForFuture take global action on 25th March 📢
📢#ExtinctionRebellion start their mass rebellion on 9th April📢
Over a month of #ClimateAction - different groups, different tactics, one aim.
Will you be there?
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We are an unfunded, grassroots group instigated by 2 ♀️ from a small town in northern England & quickly taken up by a few others locally, nationally & internationally. We'd love other women to join in setting up regular climate protests in their local areas. Could this be you?
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You'll see lots of posts about #BlueMonday 💙 today - but there isn't actually any real science behind it❌
Looking after ourselves should be part of our daily routine. So beware of the brands trying to enforce retail therapy on you! Buy what you need and look after yourself. 💚
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Share if you think that individual actions are better than no actions at all
Dalai Lama once said: “if you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito”
#ClimateActionNow #ClimateEmergency #SDGs #FossilFuels #renewableenergy #ClimateCrisis
Who's up for some more #craftivism 👇
This International Women's Day (8th March 2022) we ask women to self-organise and gather near parliaments, or in your local area to protest lack of climate action. Be in touch if you are thinking of organising. More soon. [pictured is Women's Climate Striker @mam3ko on IWD 2021].
Brilliant! #Craftivism continues 💚
Common Thread at The Glasshouses joined craftivist group @StitchesFor in producing panels with climate messages for COP26. Some panels were finished too late for the event so the project are creating their own display at the REH.
Find out more: bit.ly/3dvAuzD
#TonicArts
ALT Maggie stands in front of the Glasshouses holding up her banner.
ALT Fiona sits at a table working on her banner which is spread out in front of her.
ALT Giuseppe's banner is spread out on a table. It has an orange background and reads 'Save our wildlife' in blue letters. There are applique animals across the banner.
ALT Joan stands in front of the Glasshouses holding her banner.
Turning #ClimateEmergency #protest into gorgeous blankets for #Refugees This is #craftivism #COP26Glasgow #ClimateActionNow
#Craftivism started loooooong before Covid! And with all ages and genders involved. Oh, well, we'll still be here next time @BBCNews think stitching just came back into fashion!
‘Revival’ of knitting gets noticed c every 10-20 years. This ‘granny’ knitted 1st jumper (with cable) at 11, school cardi at 12. 1000s made giant scarf for COP26 with @StitchesFor Survival. Now that WAS a story, @BBCNews PS It’s a crochet hook. bbc.co.uk/news/business-5929…