HOW TO GET FOLKS QUILTING with community leader Sara Trail
Sara Trail, director of Social Justice Sewing Academy, shares her story of getting folks to make their first stitch. A big part of the trick she says is not teaching people HOW to sew, but rather teaching them WHY to sew: namely, to tell their own story.
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BONUS: I talk with Kay Trail, Sara's mom
In this bonus episode of SEAMSIDE, Sara Trail and I have a little surprise for you. After we’d stopped recording the conversation you just heard in episode 1, I asked Sara if she thought her mom, Kay Trail,— who’s obviously played a key role in her life— if her mom would be interested in talking wi…
EPISODE 46 :: Sara Trail of the Social Justice Sewing Academy - Intergenerational Textile Art Activism
In Episode 46 of the Close Knit Podcast, I spoke to Sara Trail of the Social Justice Sewing Academy. Sara is incredible - a complete powerhouse of passion and ambition, she’s been sewing since age 4, making quilts under her grandmother’s direction, and teaching quilt making from the age of 12 - jus…
Meeting Black Sewists Where They Are
Aleeda Crawley, President of the Modern Quilt Guild shares her personal journey into the world of quilting and tells of how she became president of the guild. The Guild itself is a powerhouse in the world of quilting – she tells us about its purpose and overall work. The Guild can be found at www.t…
Stitching For the Culture: A SEW BLACK LIVE EPISODE
Celebrate the 200th episode of the Stitch Please podcast by contributing to the next 200 episodes.
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Quilting as Collective Storytelling
Welcome to Episode 2 of Art Against Empire!
Quilting as Collective Storytelling weaves together the stories of the AIDS quilt, the Abolition Sewing Bee and features the work of Sara Trail who founded the Social Justice Sewing Academy in Oakland, Californnia.
Sara's putting needle and thread into …
Our Hands Know How to Build the World We Want
Quilters, blacksmiths, weavers, embroiderers - 25 artists across four countries using craft to fight systems of power. Welcome to Art Against Empire!
This series introduction launches a 16-episode journey featuring over two dozen artists, craftspeople, and theorists across four countries. You'll h…
CA Lawmakers Take On ICE | Mental Health Cost of News on Social Media | ‘Voices in Thread’ Exhibit
CA Lawmakers Take On ICE
California lawmakers are introducing new legislation aimed at curbing the conduct and authority of ICE agents such as by creating pathways for lawsuits over alleged civil rights violations, or banning immigration officers from using state property as staging grounds. The n…
The Loom and the Empire (1600-1900)
This is Part 1 of a three-episode documentary special tracing seven centuries of the same fight: who owns the cloth? Co-creator Shawn Dearn narrates the history while actors read from primary sources, including Lord Byron's furious defence of the Luddites, Charity Clarke's 1769 letter about "a figh…
Looms and Algorithms (1946-Present)
This is Part 3 of 3 of our documentary. The Freedom Quilting Bee, where sixty Black women in Alabama built a cooperative while fighting for the right to vote. The AIDS Memorial Quilt, forty-four thousand panels on the National Mall. Gilbert Baker's rainbow flag. Palestinian tatreez. Rana Plaza, whe…
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