WOOL AND CROCHET - MARCH 2025
WOOL AND CROCHET
March 2025
March 13 - 20, 2025
Artist: Seema Anwar, Abi Akinlade & Nyokabi Muchuku
WOOL AND PATTERNS OF LIFE
Artist: Seema Anwar
Thursday, March 13 at 7pm
Join us for a cozy evening of creativity, conversation, and connection at this beginner-friendly crafting workshop! Using colourful wool, glue, and canvas, we’ll explore the patterns that shape our lives, lines, textures, and hues that reflect what keeps us grounded.
Guided by artist Seema Anwar, the workshop begins with a brief introduction to the techniques, then opens up into a free-flowing space where you can experiment, reflect, and create at your own pace. As you craft your own unique square pattern, you’ll have the chance to express what anchors you, whether it’s memories, people, places, or dreams.
This is more than just a hands-on workshop, it’s a moment to slow down, immerse yourself in creative expression, and share in the experience of making alongside others. You’ll leave not only with a piece of art that represents your personal grounding but also with new techniques, fresh inspiration, and warm memories of crafting together.
For those who want to take their experience further and display their artwork, we invite you to join Saturday Mingling on March 22, a lively evening of artistic sharing where community members and artists come together to celebrate the creative journey.
No experience needed, just bring your curiosity, and we'll provide the rest!
This workshop will take place on March 13, at 7 p.m.
FOR MARCH 13
Please note that the March 13 workshop is now full. Join the waitlist and we will contact you if there are spots open up. We encourage you to look out your email inbox (including "Promotion" / "Other" inbox) closer to the workshop date.
GROUNDING PRACTICE: CROCHET BOOKMARKS
Artist: Abi Akinlade & Nyokabi Muchuku
Thursday, March 20 at 7pm
Crochet has a way of slowing things down, letting your hands find rhythm while your mind settles. In this workshop, Abi and Nyokabi will guide you through the basics of crochet as you create your own handmade bookmark, something small yet meaningful, stitched with intention.
Whether you’re new to crochet or have experience with yarn, this session is a space to pause, reflect, and connect, both with the craft and with others. We’ll start with a demonstration, and from there, you’ll have time to explore the process at your own pace, with guidance available along the way.
For those who want to take their experience further and display their artwork, we invite you to join Saturday Mingling on March 22, a lively evening of artistic sharing where community members and artists come together to celebrate the creative journey.
All materials will be provided. Just bring yourself, an open mind, and a willingness to try something new.
Spots are limited, register now and join us for an evening of creativity and reflection!
This workshop will take place on March 20, at 7 p.m.
FOR MARCH 20
Crafting Night is part of Jamii's March Cycle evolved around lead artist Sharon Zarita Adhiambo’s theme "Grounded", which includes workshops like Monday Dancing, Tuesday Culture Cloths, Tuesday Book Club, Tuesday Creative Writing, Wednesday Sewing, Thursday Painting, and Friday Singing.
“Through these workshops, we let art and community exchanges guide the discovery of what grounds us, or what we need to find grounding on, and pass this discovery to someone else's journey.” - Sharon Zarita Adhiambo.
Photos by Hadeal Karrar
Seema Anwar Seema Anwar has a diploma in textile design. She was under the tutelage of Mr. Azer Zubi and Mohammad Ali Bhatti, both well-known artists in Pakistan. Seema uses various mediums such as watercolor, pen work, pastels, glass, and oil paints. Seema believes art can be used as a therapy to relieve stress, trauma, and other daily struggles.
Ever since she moved to Canada she has been working with many communities such as the Flemington Community Centre, Arts in the Park, Malton Women Council, Making Art Making Change, Voice of Toronto, Afghan Women, Toronto Green, TNO organization, FHC and Flemingdon Community Support Services.
She has worked on various projects such as gender-based violence, green earth initiatives, and art therapy with the TNO organization in the senior group and Early On, Autism Thorncliffe group and Alzheimer Society.
In 2023, she did 2 exhibitions, one was Wedbi and one was Scarborough's topic on Islamic heritage. She did one event with the Art in the Park organization in 2023 at Burgess Park Thorncliffe to reduce climate change and recycle textiles. She leads art workshops for physical and mental health and wellness in the community. She has aimed to use her artwork to spread joy and happiness.
Abi Akinlade
Abi Akinlade is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Ontario. She graduated from the University of Toronto in 2023 with an Honours Bachelor of Arts in English and Drama. As a creative, she has experience in acting, writing, makeup artistry, and, most recently, fibre artistry. Represented by AMI Talent Agency, she has performed in both film and theatre productions, worked as the Web Marketing Coordinator for Driftwood Theatre, and is currently a freelance writer for She Does The City. She is honoured to have co-founded Crochet Gardens with Nyokabi Muchuku and is passionate about exploring the connectivity and synthesis between various art forms.
Nyokabi Muchuku
Nyokabi Muchuku is an artist passionate about self-expression, exploring creativity through braiding, crochet, and dance. She thrives in spaces that foster connection, creation, and inspiration. A 4th-year Human Biology student at the University of Toronto, with minors in Anthropology and Immunology, she seeks to merge her scientific curiosity with her artistic spirit, always striving to uplift those around her.
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