Event details
Start
Sat 22 November 2025 • 4:30pm
Finishes
23 Nov 2025 • 9:30pm
A powerful new hand-stitched light art work will offer a unique perspective on the migration journey of local women when it comes to Middlesbrough in November.
The co-created artwork has been supported by Borderlands, and is an extraordinary creative fusion of traditional folk art and modern light technology.
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.
Part of Shine On, Boro
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Stitching Light আলো দিয়ে গাঁথা
Stitching Light is a textile and light installation exploring Bangladeshi women’s migration to the UK.
