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Stitching Our Stories Visit to the Castle 2

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The simplicity of using my hands to make, experimenting with materials and working with different tools continues to bring new challenges which drives me to find solutions. This is the enjoyment.
What does it mean to you personally and the way you live your life?
This year, 2022 marks 30 years of my practice, during this time I have exhibited my work in the UK and abroad, worked in the Arts with all ages, abilities and community settings, completed many residencies in a number of countries, met so many fascinating people along the way and feel my life is so much richer (rich in culture but by no means in money) for this.
What has been your greatest making achievement?
Just a few of many achievements -

When my work speaks for itself and opportunities have happened by people responding to my work.
What is your favourite piece of equipment and why?

On a visit to Tate Modern with my Mum and 2 year old nephew at that time. We turned a corner in a gallery and I said to my Mum, that's my work there. It was an enlarge copy of a page in my sketchbook. I returned home and showed them the original sketchbook page we had just seen a copy of in the gallery.

Exhibiting my stained glass work with other stained glass artists in the south of France and staying in the house Matisse own towards the end of his life.

Spending a summer, working on and assisting my friend Hana Baronova on her commission making a 4.5 metre high stained glass corner window for a church in the Czech Republic.

Completing all my studies in Art & Education (Middx), Art Therapy (Herts) and Contemporary Textiles (Shetland) when I never thought I would go to university.

What is your favourite making website or blog and why?
The definition of equipment isthe 'necessary items for a particular purpose', it has to be my hands. I love working with my hands.
What is your advice to a complete beginner who wants to have a go at your craft?
There are so many to name but time on websites, blogs and social media is less time making.

Just go for it! Do not judge or think too much about it and lower your expectations - play! We take tiny steps before we walk, we walked before we run.

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The simplicity of using my hands to make, experimenting with materials and working with different tools continues to bring new challenges which drives me to find solutions. This is the enjoyment. What does it mean to you personally and the way you live your life?

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Thursday 24th March – Tuesday 12th April
Pictured with project participants Jean and Tina, and Councillor Alan Holmes

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Friday 18th February – Tuesday 8th March

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at St Peter Mancroft Church, Wednesday 9th – Sunday 20th March

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Friday 7th – Friday 28th January 2022 – St Martins at Palace Church, Norwich

Friday 28th January – Friday 11th February – Loddon Library

Saturday 12th – Thursday 17th February – Norwich Castle Museum

Friday 18th February – Tuesday 8th March – Great Yarmouth Library

Wednesday 9th – Sunday 20th March – Norfolk Makers Festival, The Forum, Norwich

Thursday 24th March – Thursday 14th April – Gaywood Library

Friday 15th – Friday 29th April – Holt Library

Saturday 30th April – Saturday 13th May – Sheringham Library

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Saturday 12th – Thursday 17th February 2022

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Friday 28th January – Friday 11th February 2022

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Friday 7th – Friday 28th January 2022

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Thursday 25th Nov 2021 - Friday 7th Jan 2022

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Candle text examples SOS participants photo Connie Flynn

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Candle by SOS participant, photo by Connie Flynn

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"Women march against male violence" and "Hate is your weapon, Courage is ours."

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Ideas for wording - UN 16 Days of Activism

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Ideas for wording - UN 16 Days of Activism

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Narratives of Protest: Textiles by Connie Flynn and work from Goldsmiths Textile Collection

A Special Collections exhibition for Women's History Month featuring Connie Flynn's Home & Away banner wall hanging commemorating the Suffragette Movement, work from Goldsmiths Textile Collection including Catherine Walton's triptych, "The Demo" picturing street protest during the Thatcher years and a slide show of banners by Thalia Campbell from the Women's Art Library.

Artist Connie Flynn's Home & Away commemorative banner signifies and celebrates 100 years of some women being able to vote. Similar to some of the original Suffragettes' banners, Home & Away is formed by a collection of recycled clothes and cloth items which relates the movement's banner-making to the domestic environment. Home & Away is constructed using a variety of textile techniques as the artist explores her interest in the narrative possibilities of how textiles communicate aspects of personal or social history. The colours carefully chosen to signify and represent the Suffragette's palette - purple for freedom, white as purity and green being hope. It was important to her to create the textile banner to make connections between time and events, places and people.

To contextualize this work, items from Goldsmiths Textile Collection will be displayed reflecting the craft of making such works and the role of textile work in expressing as well as commemorating the work of social change.

Home and Away was exhibited throughout 2018 in London School of Economics Library Reading Room, Harlow Civic Centre - Essex and as part of the exhibition "Undaunted: Our fight for the vote. Suffrage stories of North Hertfordshire" at North Herts Museum.

http://www.parndonmill.co.uk/textiles/connie-flynn

https://www.gold.ac.uk/library/special-collections/

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Narratives of Protest: Textiles by Connie Flynn and work from Goldsmiths Textile Collection A Special Collections exhibition for Women's History Month featuring Connie Flynn's Home & Away banner wall hanging commemorating the Suffragette Movement, work from Goldsmiths Textile Collection including Catherine Walton's triptych, "The Demo" picturing street protest during the Thatcher years and a slide show of banners by Thalia Campbell from the Women's Art Library.

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Local organisations

Norwich Connect

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Women's outreach service in Norwich, Broadland, Breckland, King's Lynn/West Norfolk and drop-in advice sessions in these areas

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Drop-in sessions

Support for female victims and survivors and child on parent violent programmes.

Daisy Programme

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Area covered: Breckland

Support for male and female victims

Face to face support and counselling

Survivor courses such as the Freedom Programme and My Confidence

Drop-in support groups and choir

National organisations:

National Domestic Violence Helpline

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Telephone: 0808 2000 247

24 hour domestic violence helpline for women. If you are unable to call you can also receive support from the Helpline workers by emailing helpline@womensaid.org.uk. They will respond to your email within 5 working days

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Advice and information for victims, professionals, friends or family

Galop

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Telephone: 0800 999 5428
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Support with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender domestic abuse

Telephone support line open 10am-5pm Monday, Tuesday and Friday, 10am-8pm Wednesday and Thursday

Transgender specific support line 1pm-5pm Tuesday

Online chat support available 5pm-8pm Wednesday and Thursday

Respect Men's Advice Line

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Telephone: 0808 801 0327
Email: info@mensadviceline.org.uk

Advice and support for men experiencing domestic violence and abuse

Telephone support line 9am-8pm Monday and Wednesday, 9am-5pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

If you are unable to call you can also receive support from the Helpline Advisors by emailing info@mensadviceline.org.uk and they will aim to reply within two working days

Online chat support available 10am-4pm Tuesday and Wednesday

Mankind Initiative

Website: www.mankind.org.uk
Telephone: 01823 334244

Telephone support line for male victims of domestic abuse 10am-4pm Monday-Friday

Information about reporting incidents, planning an escape and police procedures

Signposting to support for emergency housing and specialist legal help

National Stalking Helpline (delivered by Susy Lamplugh Trust)

Website: www.suzylamplugh.org/refer-someone-to-us
Telephone: 0808 802 0300

Telephone support line available 9.30am-4pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and 1pm-4pm Wednesday

Advisors can provide information about the law in relation to stalking and harassment in the UK, reporting stalking or harassment, effective gathering of evidence, ensuring your personal safety and that of your friends and family, and practical steps to reduce the risk

Paladin: National Stalking Advocacy Service

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Telephone: 020 3866 4107
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Provide trauma informed support, advice and advocacy to high risk victims

Raise awareness of dangers and risks of stalking

Provide university accredited ISAC training and CPD accredited training to professionals

Analyse the application of the stalking law

Campaign on behalf of victims of stalking

Develop a "Knowledge Hub͛"- a single port of call for any victim seeking the best support and safety advice, for a professional seeking information about how to respond to stalking and principles of an effective advocacy service

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•Our History of Banner-Making - https://www.processions.co.uk/story/history-banner-making/

•Thalia Campbell banners - http://www.birdchildsandgoldsmith.com/acatalog/Thalia_Campbell_Banners.htm

•Ten Political Banners from PHM - https://museumcrush.org/ten-political-banners-from-the-peoples-history-museum/

•Open Learn: Protest Banners - https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/politics/protest-banners-womens-suffrage

•Craft’s Long History In Radical Protest Movements - https://medium.com/the-establishment/crafts-long-history-in-radical-protest-movements-8300f59a3e54

•A stitch in time: how craftivists found their radical voice - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/28/craftivism-protest-women-march-donald-trump

•Tiny Pricks Project - https://www.tinypricksproject.com/

•Protest Banner Lending Library - https://www.aramhansifuentes.com/protest-banner-lending-library

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| Thalia Campbell, 100 Years of Women’s Banners, 1990
| Ra Page, Protest, Stories of Resistance, 2017
| Rozsika Parker, The Subversive Stitch, Embroidery and the making of the feminine, 1984
| Polly Russell and Margaretta Jolly, Unfinished Business. The fight for women’s rights, 2020
| Anna Vinegrad, Women Making History, Processions the Banners, 2020
| Lynne Stein, Shedding the Shackles: Women’s Empowerment Through Craft, 2021
| Julia Bryan-Wilson, Fray: Art and Textile Politics, 2017
| Claire Wellesley-Smith, Resilient stitch: wellbeing and connection in textile art
| Clare Hunter, Threads of life: a history of the world through the eye of a needle
| Sarah Corbett, A little book of craftivism
| Sarah Corbett, How to be a craftivist: the art of gentle protest
| Joseph McBrinn, Queering the subversive stitch: men and the culture of needlework
| Charlotte Dew, Women For Peace: Banners From Greenham Common
| Joanne Rippon, Anish Kapoor, The Art of Protest, 2019