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'Bienvenida a las personas refugiadas - Pancarta para acciones no-violentas / Welcome Refugees - Banner for nonviolent action', by participants at the International Arpillera's Forum Gernika, Basque Country 2016. (Photo: Idoia Orbe)
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| Title of Textile: | Bienvenida a las personas refugiadas - Pancarta para acciones no-violentas / Welcome Refugees - Banner for nonviolent action |
| Maker: | Participants at the International Arpillera's Forum, Gernika, 2016 |
| Country of Origin: | Basque Country |
| Year Produced: | 2016 |
| Size (cm): | 98cm (w) x 122cm (l) |
| Materials: | Scraps of material hand sewn onto burlap |
| Type of Textile: | Banner |
| Description: | This collective banner comprised of arpillera dolls was made during a workshop which was part of the Forum Internacional de Arpilleras / Arpilleras International Forum (2016). At this time, a rally in support of refugees was taking place in Gernika. In solidarity with the rally this workshop focused on creating a banner for nonviolent action.
Over two afternoons, women from many different countries worked together, with fabric, needle and thread as their common language. This finished piece is a modest homage and support towards the 110 million people who are displaced from their homes globally, as a result of conflict, violence and human rights violations UNHCR (2023). It will be used as a banner in future nonviolent actions and protests.
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| Owner: | Fundación Museo de la Paz de Gernika, Basque country / Spain |
| Location: | c/o Karen Logan, Senior curator, Ulster Museum, Belfast |
| Original / Replica: | Original |
| Photographer: | Idoia Orbe |
| Provenance: | On loan from owner, produced collectively by participants at the "Forum Internacional de Arpilleras / Arpilleras International Forum", (2016). (HM0724) |
| Textile exhibited at: |
Arpilerak: Memoriaren Haritik Etorkizuna Josten / Arpilleras: Al Hilo De La Memoria, 12/04/2018 - 24/04/2018
ARIPILLERAS: AL HILO DE LA MEMORIA, TEJIENDO FUTURO / Arpilleras: Knitting the Future, 25/04/2018 - 30/05/2018
Conflict, Famine and Displacement: Then and Now, 13/06/2020 - 27/06/2020
WE CANNOT WALK ALONE – Refugee week 2021 , 5/05/2021 - 21/06/2021
Con-textualizando la memoria / Contextualising memory, 4/09/2021 - 8/09/2021
Suitcases: Telling Textile Travels /Maletas: Contando Viajes Textiles, 1/10/2021 - 7/11/2021
Reflections on Refugees: Communicating through Art, 29/03/2022 - 16/05/2022
Mujeres Disruptivas / Disruptive women unveiling: Refugee week 2023, 20/06/2023 - 20/06/2023
Threads of Empowerment: Conflict Textiles’ International Journey, 21/06/2024 - 27/04/2025
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