“This is Where I Live” project begins in Hebden Bridge

Riverside Junior School, Hebden Bridge, was the first venue for the England-Palestine Children’s Art Project. The theme is “This is Where I Live” and we have been lucky to get some evocative pictures from children living in Refugee Camps in the West Bank and in Gaza. We showed the Hebden Bridge children images of homes across the world and then focused [...]

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St. Andrew’s, Halifax: a big focus on Palestine.

On Saturday, when the sun was shining and the temptation was to sit out in it, a big group of people  chose to come and join our project instead. St Andrew’s Methodist Church has decided to hold a year-long focus on Palestine and that was evident in the wall display I saw, which showed the facts on the [...]

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Going global

  Our embroidery project has reached many corners of the UK: from Wales to Buckinghamshire, from the North East to Bexhill-on-Sea, but now it’s gone global! Lesley couldn’t come to the workshop she wanted to attend because she was going to be away in Japan, visiting her son and his wife. So, she took a little [...]

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Four further workshops

The embroidery project is going from strength to strength. We’ve had four more workshops of late and each one is a great pleasure. I’ve posted a picture from each and just highlighted something about the event in the captions. One of the really rewarding  things about this project is that it’s attracting such lovely people with so much [...]

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