Celebrate Refugee Week and contribute to a collaborative embroidery on the theme of home. Add a word, an image or just a stitch to help us reimagine what home means. Plus, enjoy pop-up poetry readings while you sew.

This is a chance to get to know the Stories & Supper community of refugees, people seeking asylum and local residents, currently in residence at the William Morris Gallery.

All materials will be provided. Suitable for all ages (children must be supervised). No previous experience of embroidery necessary. All stitches, no matter how simple, are welcome!

Taking place on the Gallery’s first floor Landing.

Read more about our community groups in residency.

Presented as part of Refugee Week: The world’s largest arts and culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees. www.refugeeweek.org.uk

The theme for Refugee Week 2024 is “Our Home”. From the places we gather to share meals to our collective home, planet earth: everyone is invited to celebrate what our Our Home means to them.

If you’re visiting to participate in this event, you can also drop in to Winn’s Gallery (in Lloyd Park) to see Home: An exhibition. Including new work from the Stories & Supper community of refugees and asylum seekers, photo portraits by Laura Martinez, plus work from students at Leyton Sixth Form College. You can visit from 11am to 5pm from 21 to 23 June.