Workshop Threads of Memory – The Stories We Stitch

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iniva together with Grand Junction, Climate Reframe, and artist Maymana Arefin present ‘Fruitings Will Come’ a four part workshop series taking place every Tuesday from 1 to 3 PM at Grand Junction. 

The second session, Threads of Memory — The Stories We Stitch, connects personal and ancestral stories of migration and belonging through collective weaving.

Join artist Maymana Arefin and climate justice advocate Amber Amoo-Gottfried for a story-sharing and threading session inviting reflection on heritage, connection, and place. Lived experiences are exchanged, creating woven connections between personal and communal narratives, creating a fabric of individual and shared journeys.

What to bring

Each participant needs to bring physical images relating to their heritage, either from personal or communal archives.

Artist

Maymana Arefin (she/they) is an artist, community organiser and writer based in London. Through leading nature immersions, plant and fungi walks, her work centres deep rest, care work and restoring communion with our more-than-human kin. In 2020, Maymana founded @fungi.futures, a space to map radical alternative futures guided by the wisdom of mycelium. Maymana’s current practice responds to themes of ecological grief, embodiment and the power of collective imagining.

Collaborator

Amber Amoo-Gottfried is a climate justice advocate and youth learning designer for social change, championing intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches to climate action. They are a beVisioneers Fellow with global ‘learning by doing’ organisation, The DO, a Campaigns Associate for pan-European environmental anti-racism organisation, Union of Justice, and a Board Trustee for British nature-connection collective, The Visionaries. 

Working with educators, arts institutions, local authorities, non-profits, and funders —such as the Natural History Museum, Greater London Authority, and Green European Foundation— they are keen to facilitate cross-sector and community-led approaches to climate education and action planning. Their work invites communities to envision a world where ‘sustainability’ no longer reinforces global systems of marginalisation and exploitation, but reimagines and rebuilds towards a new future which is just, regenerative, and truly sustainable, for all. 

Accessibility

Participants with accessibility needs or allergens, please inform us through email: vasita@iniva.org