Date and Time: Tuesday 25 November 2025, 5pm - 7pm.
Suitable for: All school staff.
Venue: Crafts Council Gallery, 44a Pentonville Road, London N1 9BY (map).
Venue accessibility: Step free access, accessible toilets
Description of session
Kim Chin is a transdisciplinary artist-facilitator-curator-organiser who uses making as a tool for self-discovery, connection, and inspiring agency. They use absence, grief and dissonance as a site for imagination and transformation, while integrating neurodivergent adaptations in cultural, education and community spaces. Kim pivoted to a purpose led practice after an extensive career in the textiles and fashion industry. While in her last post as a Design Director (Textiles & Colour), overseeing a team of 10, touching 30 + brands, Kim was diagnosed with ADD. This critical understanding inspired Kim to nurture activities that build self-awareness and gain tools that can support resilience for people who often are overstretched and rooted in taking care of others.
The benefits of the workshops include a holistic approach to creativity, a friendly space to experiment and take risks, dedicated slow-down time to attune self-awareness, connect and build networks, learn different textile techniques, create a new memory manifested in their textile keep sake.
Detail of activity
Through different prompts and creative demos, in this session you, and the other participants will reflect on a symbol or pattern that brings them joy and grounding and translate that onto fabric using texture, colour, form and words.
Different mediums include experimenting with collagraph printing, creating “beads”, “sequins” and 3-D embellishment made from upcycled fabric off-cuts, threads, paper, old magazines and everyday upcycled materials like cardboard that can be easily sourced from home. There will be a sharing and closing exercise at the end of the session.
