Each Child a Light
Exhibition and creative workshops remembering the children in Gaza
Please join us for a family day of art, music and creative workshops and picnics – to fundraise for Hope and Play – a charity supporting children in Gaza.
The Quadrangle is very proud to be hosting Each Child a Light – a collaborative, community-based fabric arts project naming and remembering the children killed in Gaza, initiated and coordinated by artist Fiona Bailey.
From across the UK and internationally, the project brings together hundreds of people of all ages, backgrounds and levels of experience, including artists, crafters, activists; community and faith groups; children and students, to stitch unique decorative squares, each one dedicated to an individual child.
In collaboration, and square by square, they are building a large-scale quilted artwork which honours each and every child and records their name – creating an essential record and lasting memorial to so many young lives ended in violence. IG: @each.child.a.light
26th August offers an opportunity to contribute by creating your own square with your children, friends and family and by donating to the charity Hope and Play.
The programme is still being developed and will include:
– An exhibition of the quilt
– A children and family’s workshop – making remembrance squares to be included in the quilt with Fiona Bailey.
– A music workshop and performance Alison Mathews, Seeds of Hope Music, which brings together a group of 22 renowned international composers with the aim of raising funds for music charities working with children in Palestine.
– Poetry and creative writing inspired by A Million Kites – a collection of poems and testimonies from the children of Gaza, compiled between October 2023 and March 2024. Created Leila Boukarim and Asaf Luzon.
All the buildings and garden at The Quadrangle will be open for the event and there will be opportunities to play and share picnics in the Forest Garden and swim in the River Darent.
More details to come soon – To register your interest and support you sign up here to our mailing list about it and we will email you soon with the full programme.