Making Together: Banners for Change with Aram Han Sifuentes

Join artist Aram Han Sifuentes for a hands-on workshop inspired by her Protest Banner Lending Library.

Participants will design and make their own fabric banners expressing personal or collective messages of protest, identity and hope. No sewing experience is required. The workshop highlights how making can transform craft into a powerful act of expression, solidarity and civic engagement.

All materials will be provided and no sewing experience is required.

Recommended for ages 16+ and ages 12+ if accompanied by a parent/carer.

FREE, booking required.

This event is part of Making Space: A Day of Creative Action with Aram Han Sifuentes, held in collaboration with Working Class Movement Library. For more information and to book onto the sister event at Working Class Movement Library, please visit their website

We are also working with Creatives Now, a youth-led arts collective based in Bolton, to bring this day to life. They offer a programme of arts for social change, connecting local communities through creativity, dialogue and making.

About the Aritist: Aram Han Sifuentes is a social practice and fibre artist, writer and educator whose work draws on her experience as an immigrant and child of garment workers in the U.S. Based in Chicago, she centres immigrant and disenfranchised communities in her practice. Through participatory, collaborative projects, she explores race, labour, citizenship and belonging, reimagining civic systems to confront social and racial injustices while creating safe, playful spaces for skill-sharing and amplifying individual voices within collective action.