Registration is required
Register at: https://www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/stitching-stories-motherhood
From: 7 Nov 2025, 10 a.m.To: 7 Nov 2025, 3:30 p.m.
Location: Third Space, Elysium Gallery High Street Swansea SA1 1PE, Other
Join a collaborative craft workshop and discussion exploring the emotional realities of motherhood and infant feeding. This interactive session offers space for parents, caregivers, and healthcare professionals to reflect on experiences, explore the tension between lived realities and public health messaging, and connect in a safe, supportive environment for storytelling. Open to anyone who has experienced motherhood, the event encourages storytelling, listening, and community-building.
Together, we’ll create a piece that shares diverse motherhood stories and highlights voices often underrepresented in maternal care. Combining craft, conversation, and community, the workshop reimagines how infant feeding and maternal wellbeing are understood and supported in Wales.
Following the workshop, attendees can interact with Motherhood Q(G)uilt, a touch-interactive quilt embedded with the voices of 12 new mothers in Wales, a unique way to share the emotional realities of infant feeding. Made from donated baby clothes, the quilt activates audio recordings that reveal honest, often unspoken stories of guilt, pressure, and resilience.
Website: https://www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/stitching-stories-motherhood
Event created by: J.J.Griffiths