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Thursday, July 20 2023

July 20, 2023 - 10:30am - 3:30pm

FREE. Pre-registration required. Register online or by phone at 414-446-8794.

Available sessions:
July 14, 2023 – 10:30 am-3:30 pm
July 17, 2023 – 10:30 am-3:30 pm
July 20, 2023 – 10:30 am-3:30 pm

You are not required to attend the entire session.

Join Arianne King Comer at the dyeing vat as she relates the history of indigo and teaches different resist-dyeing methods, particularly traditional batik, adire (Yoruba), and shibori (Japanese) techniques of designing on cloth.

We began working with artist and indigo advocate King Comer in 2017. Her annual residency, IBILE! Ancestral Call in Cloth, went virtual during the pandemic, but in 2022 she returned and her outdoor, all-ages studio is, once again, under the big tent.

We will have some muslin yardage available, as well as muslin garments that will be available for purchase should you want to dye your own “healing coat.” You may bring your own garments or yardage (up to three per person).
Pre-registration is required. Dress for dyeing and consider bringing your own rubber gloves (dishwashing variety).

HOME Book Discussion Group

July 20, 2023 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm

January-May: Reyna Grande's The Distance Between Us. Click here for more information.
June-September: Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian. Click here for more information.
October-December: Beth Nguyen's Owner Of A Lonely Heart: A Memoir. Click here for more information.

Fee: Free.
Registration: This discussion takes place via Zoom; advance registration required. Click here to register.

The Lynden/HOME Refugee Steering Committee book discussion group, moderated by Lynden’s Kim Khaira, is for those interested in firsthand accounts of displacement. We consider works of non-fiction and fiction, including autobiographical and semi-autobiographical works, by writers who have faced or are facing forced displacement as refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants. Where stories of persecution, historical trauma, and loss of livelihood are effortlessly conveyed by storytellers, journalists, and humanitarians who search out or stumble upon the lives of refugees, we seek out the words of those to whom these stories belong: the narrators who are the closest to their own stories, and the stories of their people, friends, family and, of course, refugees. Newcomers always welcome!