Arpilleras Workshops<\/a> organised by our Foundation, with which we promote the associativity, integration and creativity of Latin American and Spanish-speaking women and dissidents in the Netherlands. <\/p>\n\n\n\nWhere to see it? At Het Wijkcentrum d’Oude Stadt, Kerkstraat 123, 1017 GE Amsterdam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When will it take place?\u00a0 From March 6 to May 27, 2023.\u00a0Free admission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The exhibition is organised by the cultural centre Het Wijkcentrum d’Oude Stadt, in collaboration with Casa Migrante Amsterdam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(1) “Justice, Peace and Dignity”<\/strong>, were the words chosen spontaneously by a group of people who gathered on December 7th, 2019, in Casa Migrante, Amsterdam, to make this emotional collective textile story, with which we joined from the Netherlands to the international call for textile activism “A thousand needles for dignity” of the Chilean visual artist, Karen Rosentreter.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWith it, we express our big concern for the serious and systematic violations of Human Rights (HR) being committed by agents of the Chilean state against the population, after the social outbreak of October 18, 2019 (accredited and documented by major international human rights organisations), we give our support and call for international solidarity to demand the restoration of the rule of law, an end to political violence against demonstrators and respect for human rights in Chile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This meeting was organised in the Netherlands, at Casa Migrante Amsterdam, by visual artist Mak Alvarez<\/strong><\/em> (artmak.cl), the Collective @Chile Despert\u00f3 Holanda<\/em><\/strong>, and by us, in what was the beginning of our collective @Fundaci\u00f3n Di\u00e1spora Solidaria<\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\nSince 2020, we have continued the work of activism and textile collectivism, offering workshops, encounters and meetings as a Foundation, to promote associativity, creativity, integration and empowerment of Latin American and Spanish-speaking women and dissidents in the Netherlands, inspired by the Arpillera<\/em><\/strong>, for the power of its narrative, as well as the historical relationship that this technique has with the defence of Human Rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u00bfWhat is an Arpillera?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe Arpillera<\/strong> <\/em>(or jute) refers to a type of cloth, usually used to wrap flour or wheat. It was first taken as a canva by Violeta Parra, one of the greatest Chilean artists in history, around 1960. She named the textile work that resulted from her creative, expressive and self-taught embroidery arpillera. Soon, the technique was enriched by the hands of the “Bordadoras de Isla Negra”, a collective of women embroiderers from this coastal town in Chile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the mid 70\u2019s the Arpilleras became true \u201cTextil newspapers\u201d that told the truth which the official media did not want to tell, about the search for truth, justice and the defence of life, by the Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared of the civil-military dictatorship of Pinochet (1973-1980).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Currently, this technique has been disseminated and enriched throughout Latin America, by the hand of women\u2019s collectives and artists who continue to weave stories, narrating their experiences, dreams and desires for dignity, equality, social justice and respect for nature, promoting peace with needles, fabrics and threads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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