Project Threadways 2025 Symposium | Virtual Download

Schedule

Schedule subject to change. Events take place at The Factory at 462 Lane Drive in Florence unless otherwise indicated.

THURSDAY, APRIL 24

5:30 p.m. &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Reception at The Factory from Lisa Donovan. <u><a href="https://alabamachanin.com/products/the-shoals-project-threadways-symposium-reception">Register here</a></u> - registration included with in-person tickets.

FRIDAY, APRIL 25

9:00 am &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Registration and breakfast from All the Best

9:30 am&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Welcome from Natalie Chanin

10:15 am&nbsp; &nbsp;Blair LM Kelley of UNC-Chapel Hill on labor and the living arts

11:00 am&nbsp; &nbsp;Cathy Bailey of Heath Ceramics on considered vs. consumption

11:45 am&nbsp; &nbsp;The Kitchen Sisters, Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, on food, storytelling, and connection

12:45 pm&nbsp; &nbsp;Lunch at The Factory

1:45 pm &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Windy Chien, author of The Year of Knots, on making

2:30 pm &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Liz Lambert and Jack Sanders on reimagining place

3:30 pm &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Break

5:00 pm&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;*Sew Their Names exhibition and workshop with Florence Arts and Museums and the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art (Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts, 217 E. Tuscaloosa St.)

*The Sew Their Names exhibition will not be recorded or streamed for virtual symposium attendees. All other events on the schedule will be streamed and recorded.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 26

9:00 am&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Breakfast from All the Best

9:30 am&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Knots workshop with Windy Chien

10:45 am&nbsp; &nbsp;Judith Winfrey on agriculture and advocacy

11:30 am&nbsp; &nbsp;Natalie Chanin and Rinne Allen on the stories of workers

12:30 pm&nbsp; &nbsp;Lunch from Lisa Donovan,&nbsp;and a conversation with Ari Weinzweig

1:45 pm&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Jacqueline Bishop on history and memory&nbsp;

2:30 pm&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Closing remarks