Stitching Light আলা দিয়ে গাঁথা Light Night Leeds

Women of Bangladeshi heritage from Shantona Women’s Centre, Harehills, Leeds have contributed to Stitching Light, exploring their migration stories to the UK and we are proud to present it at Light Night Leeds 2025. 

Stitching Light is a textile and light installation exploring Bangladeshi women’s migration to the UK. Stories are being collected from groups of Bangladeshi women who live in Tower Hamlets, Leeds, Bradford, Middlesbrough, Worcester and Salford who have a lived experience of this migration journey. 

Their stories are being gathered and transcribed onto 16 x 3m high colourful painted textile panels, hand painted by a traditional folk artist based in Dhaka and hand stitched with light thread to highlight the journeys that they have taken. 

The panels are arranged within a purpose-built 3D structure with soundscape which the audience can walk through and around to immerse themselves in these stories.