Limehouse Town Hall : 646 Commercial Road : London : E14 7HA
Registered Charity No. 1093279
Stitches in Time Past Projects
During the last year Stitches in Time have run 13 community projects which have acted as a resource for over 600 hundred residents from five boroughs of London. Continual ideas of legacy, heritage, sustainability and community cohesion are central to our work. With excellence in community cohesion projects, we deliver valuable textile works which offer a platform for community members to gain new skills, confidence and an engagement with their environment.
Harford Street is a cohesive community arts project working with Tower Hamlets College, Anson House, St Dunston’s with Locksley over 50’s sewing groups, Dora Hall young women’s groups and years 3 and 4 of Ben Johnson School
Harford Street, London, 2007-08
“Gasometer”
“Gasometer”
Barkantine Medical Centre,Canary Wharf,London 2007-2008
This piece was commissioned as part of a pubic art health programme by the LBTH PCT; It included working with 4 medical centres and 2 community centres. Participants from the New Barkantine Centre as well as groups from the Cedar Community Centre, Canary Wharf Medical Centre, Arnhem Wharf School, Barkantine centre on the Isle of Dogs.
Stitches in Time worked in partnership with St Johns School, Bethnal Green. The project incorporated 2 year groups at the school and a parents group, as well as 2 community groups in the area, making a collection of textile works responding to ideas of architecture and transition of space within the Bethnal Green area. The work is now situated in the school.
St Johns School, Bethnal Green 2007-2008
Builders of Commercial Road(BOC), London 2006-2013
BOC (Builders of Commercial Road) is a mixed media, over arching programme incorporating many community groups located along Commercial Road and East India Dock Road.