Category Archives: Mini protest banners

Ubuntu Mini Protest Banner outside Wandsworth Prison

Craftivist Justine crafted this beautiful Mini Protest Banner and hung it outside Wandsworth Prison. Here she writes why she made her Mini Protest Banner and why she chose that specific location as the resting place for her creation:

It is a protest about the injustice of poverty, and especially the massive and widening gap between the minority rich and the rest of us. It refers to the African concept of Ubuntu which we do not have a single word translation for in the English language (interestingly!) but which means something like ‘we are human only together’.

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Join us at Sheffield DocFest 2010

Last years session we did at Sheffield Docfest was a great success so they have invited us again and opened up the session to the public as well as delegates.

Date: Saturday 6th November 4:45pm- 6pm. Venue: Channing Hall, Sheffield city centre. Free, all welcome. All resources provided.

 Make Mini Protest Banners on issues you have seen in one of the documentaries at the Festival or in the past! Think of a word, a fact, a quote, a symbol from documentaries that makes you stop, stand back and think about the world differently. Then, get out a needle and thread and cross stitch this inspiration onto a scrap of material. Tie it onto a lamp-post, walk on and let nature take its course. Allow yourself to feel free to expose the scandal of global poverty, and human rights injustices though the power of craft and public art. Be a craftivist through provocative, non-violent creative actions.

Craftivist Collective’s micro exhibition and shop at the Paper Dress Boutique

The Craftivist Collective launched their latest exhibition on Thursday 16th September 2010. The exhibition is installed at Paper Dress Boutique, a beautiful vintage clothes boutique, cafe and venue at 114-116 Curtain Road, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3AH. Continue reading

Cross Stitch Graffiti at London Fashion Week 2010

To mark the start of London Fashion Week 2010, activist group The Craftivist Collective has created homemade Mini Protest Banners aimed at exposing the ugly side of fashion. Using Mini Protest Banners, they hope to make people think about the side of the fashion that is often too easily dismissed by the industry in a non-threatening but challenging way during the fashionista’s calendar annual highlight. Continue reading

Meeting an unlikely supporter of the Craftivist Collective…

August 2010: At the Whitecross Street art party to raise money and awareness of SHP (Single Homeless Project) charity the Craftivist Collective had a stall and artwork showing.

A lovely older man (wants to remain anonymous) came up to our stall very excited to meet us and said that he had stolen a Mini Protest Banner 2 years ago from Hoxton Square because he thought it was great and he couldnt find out who made it and put it up (he doesnt have the internet so couldnt Google the label). HIs banner said “there is more to life than cool points”. Continue reading

Join us at Sketchbook Pop Up shop

Date of Pop Up Shop duration: 13th March- 19th April. Venue: 10 Newburgh Street,  Carnaby, W1F 7RN. You can buy our Mini Protest Banner kits and postcards in the shop.

Date of Craftivist Collective presentation: on the history of the Craftivist Collective. Monday 5th April 2pm, downstairs (free) all welcome RSVP here

Date of Craftivist Collective workshop: Thursday 9th April 3pm (free) open to all. Making Mini Protest Banners on the themes of unethical fashion and sweatshops.

Sketchbook magazine focuses on fashion, arts and illustration. Members of Sketchbook set up a pop up shop for 3 weeks in a beatiful shop space 10 Newburgh Street off Carnaby Street London. In the space Sketchbook members drew on the walls, had film booths of short art films surrounded by artwork painted onto the walls.

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Our first exhibition!

Sarah Corbett writes: The lovely curators at Ink-d Gallery in Brighton invited us to be part of their exhibition with the help of a nudge from the incredible craftivist Carrie Reichardt who specialises in mosaics and ceramics. 5 of our mini protest banners are hung in the gallery underneath 5 framed prints of photographs of the mini protest banners in a public space that links to the issue discussed. Continue reading

Craftivists at the Copenhagen Climate Conference: December 2009

The Craftivist Collective and other climate change activists from all over the world went to Copenhagen, Denmark to tell World Leaders that they need to come up with a fair and binding climate change deal that supports the poorest people in the world now and in the future. Continue reading

People & Planet student weekend, Manchester

The Craftivist Collective were asked by People and Planet to deliver 2 craftivism workshops with students from all over the UK in November 2009 as part of their ‘Shared Planet’ weekend conference in Manchester. Continue reading

Look how happy we all look :)

Here are all the Craftivists who came to our Spitalfield’s City Farm crafternoon on the environment. Don’t we all look lovely? On Saturday 3rd October we had a Mini Protest Banner making workshop at Spitalfields City Farm in East London.

We spent 2 hours in the afternoon chilling out surrounded by plants and animals whilst chatting to like-minded people and creating our own mini protest banners on environmental issues to put up around the farm… what more could you want to do!:) it was a lovely day with lovely people. Check out more photos of the event in our Flickr Album ‘Mini Protest Banner making workshop at Spitalfields Farm’.