Conversations With Artists: Living Blue
This online talk is part of the EcoCreative Cluster 2022 Programme: Nurturing Creativity, Piece by Piece. Funded by Creative Scotland.
Online Talk with Social Enterprise Living Blue
Date: Thursday 29th September 2022
Time: 1.00pm - 2.00pm
Place: Online via Zoom
Age: All ages
Cost: Free
Booking is essential for this event
Join us for the fourth episode in our new series of EcoCreatives ‘Conversations With Artists’. Every month for five months we will invite an artist/practitioner from a different part of the world to share their creative practice and exchange viewpoints in an informal online talk. All artists use locally sourced natural materials and natural dye techniques for their practice. By exchanging knowledge and experience, we aim to weave a wider network of practitioners and practices with our own community here on the West Coast.
In this free online artist talk, curator Naoko Mabon will be in conversation with Living Blue, a Bangladeshi social enterprise producing indigo, and handcrafted dyed/stitched couture textiles for home and hi-fashion.
Started off as a governance project of CARE Bangladesh in 2005, Living Blue aims to promote traditional crafts and natural dye cultivation, through community-driven employment, innovation, social development and the global promotion of its products/services. In addition to the main workshop in Rangpur, Living Blue has 3000 indigo farmers and over 200 artisans and dyers as members, spread into hundreds of households in northern Bangladesh, creating prosperity and stability to the surrounding villages. The indigo dye is processed organically by Living Blue from indigo leaves cultivated by regional farmers.
This session is held via Zoom. An invitation link will be shared via email ahead of the event with all registered attendees.
Image credits: ©Living Blue
Conversations with Artists. Collection of textile art images by the artists.
EcoCreatives: Series 1 Playlist
You can also watch all episodes from Series 1 of ‘Eco Creatives: Conversations With Artists’ on our YouTube channel.
Series 1 Artists:
Project Funding
This project has kindly been supported by Creative Scotland.
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