Inspired by historical and current protest posters, banners, and bedsheet paintings, including the fabric banners of Aram Han Sifuentes and the block print banners of Peter Schumann, Cambridge Wildife Arts will host a series of sessions that welcome members of the public to sit around a table and stitch a single embroidered and/or appliquéd banner meant for use in vigils, protests, and parades. Echoing the suffragettes, The use of wildlife imagery combined with a single word emphasizing our commonality with nature on the banner emphasizes our resilience and interdependence with each other as does the experience of creating something from fiber working in a group or in a circle, common to many cultures and historical moments.

The banner will be worked on in more than one venue, rotating within Cambridge starting on April 26 at the Magazine Beach event collaboratively run with Mass Audubon and continuing on to several venues currently being approached for subsequent sessions of working on the banner. The banner itself will be used in the 2025 Honk! Parade in Somerville/Cambridge and will be lent for use in other events by arrangement once it is completed.

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