Community Facilitator Saada Osman explains how she started working with The Bare Project on Common Threads. We started working with The Bare Project in 2020 on a project called Hinterlands where we delivered a weaving workshop as part of The Light Tree Celebrations along the Sheffield - Tinsley canal. From that project the women spoke about issues of safety in the...
In a couple weeks time we’ll be rigging 15 panels of 7-foot-high bamboo looms on a busy high street in Sheffield. Over the course of a week, these looms will form the walls for a kind of living room on The Moor. In this room, we hope to bring about a small transformation in the city centre: creating a place where...
On Sunday 12th July, forty attendees were welcomed through the doors of Gut Level, Sheffield’s queer-friendly members club on Chapel Walk, for Fleece to Fibre. These folks had joined us to spend a relaxed day learning about the processes of turning raw fleece into fabric. This free workshop was part of Common Threads year round programme, gearing up for our...
Since February this year we have been building a new collaboration between farmers, activists and artists from the Philippines and the UK. The core team has been Mabi David, Jen Horn, Sally Proctor and Malaika Cunningham. We have been marching through mud, sharing meals, making katmon jelly, and having sprawling, philosophical online conversations about arts-based facilitation and research, care, grief...
In just a week's time, our festival Common Threads will be underway on the Moorfoot. And so before we’re swept up in that, we thought we’d share a few reflections on the festival with you....
Blog by Malaika Cunningham, originally posted on VOICE Community as part of the VOICE project (a Horizon project co-funded by EU & UKRI). ‘Voice’ is a layered and complicated concept. It can be embodied and metaphorical. Revolutionary and ordinary. Empowering or patronising. It is often conceptualised within political and socially engaged artistic contexts in terms of how we make sure certain...
As we near the end of the year, we are taking stock of where we are—without lingering too long and without reflecting too deeply, lest we fall into the abyss....
Are you an artist, facilitator, or activist interested in land & food justice, and utopias? Come and work with us in Rotherham on The People's Palace of Possibility! The People’s Palace of Possibility is an outdoor installation which asks how we find energy and hope for the future, despite the fear and anger we feel today. It is a place for...
The Bare Project has been running now for ten years, and I am delighted to have been part of it for the latest quarter of that. When I moved to Sheffield and very quickly went freelance I was terrified. Just moved to a new city, about to turn 30, and didn’t know anyone. I met Malaika by chance when we...
By Sally Proctor As we draw ever closer towards the spring with unusually bright blue days and sunshiny skies, it brings with it both a time for reflection and pause. Last April saw me join the brilliant team at The Bare Project as the Community Producer on a (still mysterious to me) project called Hinterlands. At that point all I knew was...