Arpilleras Documentary & Textile Art Workshops

Retazos Móviles is a documentary in which Latin American women stitch together their experiences of how public transport and mobility in remote areas of the Netherlands have shaped their lives. The film combines stop-motion with the Chilean textile tradition of Arpilleras, a technique developed during the dictatorship in Chile, where the textile works portrayed silenced stories. It's a more profound question that addresses issues of how lives are reconstructed in long trajectories of migration, while, in telling our stories, a community of women is created

The project is a collaboration between Fundación Diáspora Solidaria (Mónica Barraza and Siria Wildbergh-Olivares), Club Entrelazadas (Javiera González Velásquez), Nene Moné in the music composition, and Elliot and Sandra La Rota in the audiovisual field and research.

Program:

14:00-15:00 A short introduction about the film, about mothering in the city, and textile sessions

film screening, Q&A

15:00- 17:00 workshops

One table for the children to use textile markers, drawing on their scarves

One table with a similar setup to our mothering the city sessions. People can pick up materials and start to do their things, or if they need instructions, we can teach them the basic stitches.