Crafting Parallel Worlds: World Building Workshop

A collaborative world-building workshop starting from the question “What if the city centre wasn’t just for shopping?”

Join Craft Social and The Bare Project for the first in a series of free workshops which combine speculative fiction and textile crafts. These workshops are based on Nottingham School of Art & Design’s project Fashion Fictions. Crafting Parallel Worlds will bring people together to create and reflect on shared visions for alternative fashion cultures. 

Join us to create a parallel, improved Sheffield, and use craft activities to pull items from our fictional Sheffield into the real world.

This will be a series of 3 workshops. You do not need to attend all sessions; you’re welcome to join the series at any point.

Workshop 1 

A collaborative world-building workshop starting from the question “What if the city centre wasn’t just for shopping?” and exploring visions of softer, safer city spaces. We’ll imagine a parallel town centre together using speculative fiction techniques including creative mapping, writing and collaging. This will be a guided session with lots of different ways to contribute.

This workshop is part of Common Threads, an international weaving project bringing cultures, ideas and people together.

This workshop is free, but booking is required

Tickets / sign up

Gut Level membership is required to attend, but this can be purchased online for £2 a year (https://gutlevel.co.uk/membership)

Location: Gut Level is in Sheffield city centre on Chapel Walk.

Access: Gut Level has step free access and an accessible toilet. If you have any queries about access or If you have any access requirements please email [email protected]

Safer Covid Measures: We are hiring air purifiers from Breathe Easy for this event in line with their guide for Covid-safer events. In addition we will keep a door open to aid ventilation. Handwashing facilities and hand gels will also be available throughout the event. Breathe Easy loans equipment free of charge and we are grateful for their support. More information can be found via the link below:
https://sheffield.breathe-easy.uk/how-to-guide-for-covid-safer-events/

Photography: We may take some photographs of this workshop for evaluation and marketing purposes, but if you do not wish to be photographed please speak to our team and we can keep you out of photos.”