EventsCollaborative Photo Quilt Workshop
Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (enter at 290 Lisgar Street)
June 25, 2025
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
from left: Felicity Hauwert, Saivani Sanassy, Xavior Kayvon Gough
Create a quilt together using photographs from your family archive!
CUAG invites you to join artists Felicity Hauwert, Saivani and Xavior Kayvon Gough for a co-creation workshop using photographs and textiles. Send in photographs from your family album that speak of love, relationality and community care. These will be printed onto fabric and during the workshop, Hauwert, Saivani and Gough will lead us in a quilt collaboration.
Together, we’ll use material and images to identify connections between our own lives and those we’ve just met.
No prior sewing experience is necessary. The artists will guide you through the process, offering tips and techniques. Supplies will be provided. Light refreshments will be available.
This workshop is free and all are welcome, but as space is limited, we would like to prioritize Black, Indigenous and racialized folks.
Please email fiona.wright@carleton.ca to reserve your spot.
Access Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (CDCC) is a fully accessible space, with an elevator and barrier-free washrooms. The Para Transpo drop-off and an entrance with ramps are located on the 290 Lisgar Street side of the building.
Parking Paid visitor parking is available in the CDCC’s Lisgar Street lot. There is also street parking available nearby.
Participants
Felicity Hauwert is a mixed-race Black Nova Scotian and Dutch visual artist and curator living and working on unceded Algonquin territory. Concerned with memory, oral histories and their visual embodiments, as well as diasporic constructions of home, they view their practice of creation-based research as being inherently relational. They continue to be occupied by the deep historical, aesthetic and visual ties across the Black Atlantic – a point of departure from which they seek to merge the visual with the aural and material.
Saivani Sanassy is a Mauritian-Canadian artist based in Ottawa who loves to explore natural and fantastical subjects through watercolour, ceramics and jewelry. Most recently, she has been using sugarcane leaves to archive the stories of her ancestors through lost art practices.
Xavior Kayvon Gough is a Black, Nova Scotian-born, multidisciplinary artist who expresses his artistic passion through various mediums in experiential exhibitions and live performances. Xavior’s creative journey is an exploration of identity, history and the transformative potential of art in fostering understanding and change.