Seat at the Table

About the event

Ticketing information

Adult Ticket: £20

Concession Ticket: £7

ESEA unseen hopes to celebrate ESEA and all diaspora identities. In response to this year’s theme “roots/routes” for ESEA Heritage Month, this workshop also celebrates the rich stories and diverse experiences of ESEA diaspora that have helped shape the cultural identity of the UK.

Please note: we have 15 tickets for ESEA audiences, and 5 tickets for POC or non-POC allies.

Concessions include ESEA Jobseekers, individuals on Universal Credit or those with disabilities. Individuals with disabilities are entitled to a complimentary ticket for a carer, should you require a carer’s ticket, please contact bookings@museumofthehome.org.uk

Join us for a textile workshop and shared meal of delicious Filipino-inspired dishes, exploring histories around tablecloths, basic textile techniques, and food as a love language within ESEA communities.

Workshop

Participants will learn basic techniques for textile making (using a sewing machine and experimental cross-stitching and patchworking), to create personalised placemats using discarded fabric, clothes and trimmings.

While making, participants are invited to share their stories around diaspora identity and heritage that they will embed into their textile. At the end of the session, we will collectively join the individual stories/placemats to create the first part of a wider tablecloth installation project by ESEA unseen.

Participants will also be invited to reflect more widely on some questions:

How can the ESEA diaspora weave their stories and experiences into the fabric of history?
How can textile-making be a form of collective activism?
How can memories and stories within the domestic space occupy a larger history?

Meal sharing

For many ESEA diaspora, “Have you eaten?” is an expression of care, and can easily replace “How are you?”. To celebrate the role of food in family dynamics, participants will also get to enjoy and share Filipino-inspired dishes for lunch by chef Tintin aka Swilipino.

The plant-based menu will include fried tofu (bubuk), kangkong and beansprouts (peanut sauce), tapioca crackers, pandan sticky rice cubes and pickled cucumbers. This menu is subject to change.

Schedule

10AM – 12.30PM: ESEA unseen shares research on ESEA migration and textile histories. Introduction to basic textile techniques & time for making.

12.30PM – 2PM: Sit down together and share a delicious, Filipino-inspired meal from chef Tintin/Swilipino

2PM – 4PM: Continue placemats & collectively join together to make one piece.

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Seat at the Table with ESEA unseen and Swilipino