Free entry
Sat 15 Aug 2026, 2.30-4.30pm
Gallery 5
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| Sunday | 11am–6pm |
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About This Event
This event takes place in the Foyle Reading Room at Whitechapel Gallery, located on floor 1A.
This drop-in workshop will run for approximately 2 hours, with participants welcome to stay for as little or as long as they wish.
We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event
We are unable to provide live closed captioning or CART for this event.
Transport
To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
Join textile designer Anisah Yaminah for a hands-on yarn winding workshop exploring ideas around migration, memory and nostalgia through textile and craft.
Using colourful deadstock yarns, participants will create their own woven yarn winding artworks, inspired by a personal object that connects to ideas around migration, heritage, nostalgia, or personal history. This could be something physical like a photograph, a garment, a piece of jewellery, or something immaterial like a story, poem, recipe, or song.
Drawing on Yaminah’s textile practice, the workshop invites participants to transform memories and stories into thread-based artworks through simple winding and weaving techniques.
Participants can choose to take their finished piece home or display it as part of Yaminah’s Cha and Nashta artwork in the exhibition!
No previous experience is required. All materials will be provided – just remember to bring along a personal object with you to inform your artwork!
This is a drop-in workshop, with no booking required.
This workshop accompanies our current exhibition OITIJ-JO Collective: TUFAN.
Anisah Yaminah is a textile designer, specialising in weave as a medium to visually narrate stories of nostalgic feelings, memories and childhood moments. Family albums, objects and clothes are archival pieces of work that are important to her research as they are ways to translate stories in woven textiles. Blending her Bangladeshi heritage and London roots together plays a significant part in her creative practice as they inform her narrative as well as colour, patterns and materials. Growing up in London, surrounded by different cultures has led her to interweave themes of identity, land and home which is reflective in the primary research she gathers. This personal approach to her work lets others see how she uses weave as a tool to explore her identity.
