Women in Adversity
contemporary and traditional crafts as a source of hope and income
part of the
14th Oxford Human Rights Festival
Monday 25th January – Friday 19th February 2016 9am – 6pm
Glass Tank gallery, ground floor, Abercrombie Building, Oxford Brookes University
Founded in 2003, the Oxford Human Rights Festival is an initiative of postgraduate students on the MA and MArchD courses in Development and Emergency Practice, with the aim of raising awareness of human rights issues in Brookes students and the wider Oxford community through the arts. This year’s programme includes feature films, music, talks and documentaries and will take place at Oxford Brookes University from Wednesday 10th to Saturday 13th February 2016.
The centrepiece of the 2016 festival is Women in Adversity, an exhibition in the Glass Tank gallery of crafts made by women facing daily situations of conflict, poverty and disease. It features embroidered panels from the Palestinian History Tapestry, a project which tells the story of the life and heritage of the indigenous people of Palestine and supports the traditional craft of Palestinian needlewomen. There is also a display of the Keiskamma History Tapestry, which illustrates the life of the people of the Eastern Cape of South Africa, items from the Windmill Fairtrade Shop in Headington, Oxford, imagery from the Suffragette movement and other examples of craft by women from the UK and around the world.
