Stitching light আলো দিয়ে গাথা

Stitching Light is a textile and light installation that was showcased at Canary Wharf’s Winter Lights festival 2025. The piece explores Bangladeshi womens migration to the UK. Stories were collected from a group of Bangladeshi women who live in Tower Hamlets and who have a lived experience of this migration journey. Their stories have been gathered and transcribed onto colourful painted textiles, hand painted by a traditional folk artist based in Dhaka, and hand stitched with light thread to highlight the journeys that our friends have taken.  

Emergency Exit Arts have successfully secured further funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to work with more Bangladeshi communities throughout the UK. Together, we will create an additional five panels to develop the stories of migration to different areas in the UK, to further learn and share what the experience has been like to relocate to another country.  

The stories, we are sure, will be very different and we are excited to continue this project partnering with organisations to help deliver the workshops. Audiences will have the opportunity to see the installation at many winter light festivals in the North of England in 2025/26. Details will be available in April.  

To read more about the project so far read here

Emergency Exit Arts partnered with local organisation Oitij-Jo, The Migration Museum, Bangladeshi based Paraa, with Ruhul Abdin as Creative Director.