Theatr Clwyd has announced their support for Processions, a mass participation artwork to mark the centenary of the Representation of the People Act, which gave the first British women the right to vote.
Processions is produced by Artichoke, the UK’s largest producer of art in the public realm, as part of 14-18 NOW, the UK’s official arts programme for the First World War centenary. Processions will invite women, and those who identify as women or non-binary, and girls across the UK to come together on the streets of Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London on Sunday 10 June 2018 to mark this historic moment in a living, moving portrait of women in the 21st century.
Theatr Clwyd is one of 100 organisations working with women artists up and down the country in the lead-up to the event, as part of an extensive public programme of creative workshops to create 100 centenary banners which will form part of this vast artwork.
The banner-making workshops will focus on text and textiles, echoing the practices of the women’s suffrage campaign and will be spaces to consider the power of the vote today and our shared future. The banners made will represent and celebrate the diverse voices of women and girls from different backgrounds.
Renowned North Wales artist Ticky Lowe, who recently created the ‘Garden of Light’ 10ft giant daffodil instillation for Marie Curie at Carnarfon Castle, will be leading the workshops at Theatr Clwyd.
Ticky Lowe, Artist “I’m really excited to be working on a banner for “Processions” and I am looking forward to working together with women of all ages and abilities and from different cultures using “stitch” to celebrate women and their achievements 100 years since we first won the right to vote.
As this banner is being made with Theatr Clwyd we are intending to focus on influential women in the theatre and in the wider Arts world – actresses, writers, poets, painters, musicians, singers in Wales and make our banner as theatrical as possible. … there will be sequins and feathers”
The workshops are free but booking is essential via the box office, full details here.
