Events

Thursday, January 29 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Saturday, January 31 1:00pm - 5:00pm*
no crafting experience necessary

Please join us at Change You Want to See Gallery for an artists talk, screening and workshop led by J Mandle Performance. Julia Mandle's installation Fabrication of Blindness attempts to give voice to the 700+ past and current detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Participants will learn the stories of those being held, and embroider detainees' poems onto hoods which will be exhibited at installations in Washington DC, Paris, and NYC.

As the paradigm shifts in Washington, Fabrication of Blindness hopes to negotiate the aftermath of Americans' complicit approval of the Bush administration's foreign policy. Working with local craft and activist groups where the installation is shown, sewing circles will offer an opportunity to connect the actions of dissenters with the voices of those who have been held.

Sewing experience is not required, non-crafters are highly encouraged to attend. All materials will be provided. Come Thursday evening and/or Saturday day and get your craft on. An artist talk, discussion and screening with kick the sessions off.

*Saturday drop in any time. Bear in mind the sewing project will take a minimum of two hours.

About
friday, 30 jan 2009, williamsburg coworking throws open it's doors to celebrate belgium's legalization of same sex marriage, the birth of FDR and the assassination of the great freedom fighter, Mohandas Gandhi and the launching of Greenpoint's USS Monitor.

on friday, we will host "work at jelly" and at 2pm we will pipe the inaugural session of "Jelly Talks" featuring Chris Messina (Board member, OpenID) and Dave Morin (Senior Platform Manager, Facebook). starting at 5pm, we will break into a vivacious happier hour! we hope that you can clear your schedule, snag your laptop and join us - this friday (25 July) from 9:30 till 7pm!
we guarantee to cross two items off on your to-do list...
1. be productive during the day.
2. meet some of the most wonderful people.
Where
The Change You Want to See - 84 Havemeyer Street, storefront - Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211 Map.
Subway: _-L- to Bedford, -J- to Marcy, or -G- to Metropolitan.

Thursday, January 29 7:30pm-10pm
Saturday, January 31 1pm-5pm
no crafting experience necessary

Please join us at Change You Want to See Gallery for an artists talk, screening and workshop led by J Mandle Performance. Julia Mandle's installation Fabrication of Blindness attempts to give voice to the 700+ past and current detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Participants will learn the stories of those being held, and embroider detainees' poems onto hoods which will be exhibited at installations in Washington DC, Paris, and NYC.

As the paradigm shifts in Washington, Fabrication of Blindness hopes to negotiate the aftermath of Americans' complicit approval of the Bush administration's foreign policy. Working with local craft and activist groups where the installation is shown, sewing circles will offer an opportunity to connect the actions of dissenters with the voices of those who have been held.

Sewing experience is not required, non-crafters are highly encouraged to attend. All materials will be provided. Come Thursday evening and/or Saturday day and get your craft on. An artist talk, discussion and screening with kick the sessions off.