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Isn't it just fantastic how our clothes hold specific memories of our lives and take us back in time? That is what we find most fascinating about Claire Wilcox’s recently published memoir: Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes. In fact, we loved her literary exercise so much that we decided to make it the subject of a new event series for this fall, and you don’t want to miss it!

Our Patch work: A Life Amongst Clothes series encompasses a trio of intimate events taking place this Fall: a book club session (and believe us, our last book club session was LIT) in September, a live conversation with the author to comment on the book and ask all of your questions in October and last but not least, a Clothes & Memoirs creative writing workshop facilitated by the fab Joly Licks and inspired by Patch Work in November.

UNMISSABLE. You are going to share and chat about your clothes with lovely like-minded people, have drinks with an amazing fashion curator/author as well as stimulate your literary and creative veins. That’s Autumn sorted for you.

But hurry up, the package of 3 events is limited to 15 people only!

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Here’s all the info you need to know:

Patch Work book club

Facilitated by Nao and Nessa, co-founders of Wearers Festival. We are gonna have many cups of tea (or glasses of wine, everything goes) and share our thoughts, questions and feelings on the book in an informal and friendly guided session.
Date: Tuesday 21st Sep 2021
Time: 6:00 pm
Where: Zoom
Capacity: 15 people

Conversation with Claire Wilcox

The author of Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes is in da house! And we are having coffee with her. If you are based in London (or don’t mind commuting for this event) don’t miss the opportunity to attend this intimate conversation with Claire where we’ll get to ask her all our questions about her memoir and know more about her process of writing the book. If you are not London-based, you can still sign up and attend the event through Zoom.
Date: Wednesday 13th Oct 2021
Time: 6:30 pm
Where: Secret venue near Oxford Street, Central London. Live streamed through Zoom.
Capacity: 15 people in the venue, unlimited attendants through Zoom.

Clothes & Memoirs: Creative Writing Workshop

Inspired by Patch Work? Well, now it’s time to grab the pen and write your own memoirs. Designed for beginners (do not worry if you are not the next Pulitzer prize) this creative writing workshop facilitated by the fabulous Fausta Joly will give you resources and techniques to lose the fear of writing and have fun putting the stories of your garments on paper.
Date: Tuesday 9th Nov 2021
Time: 6:00 pm
Where: Zoom
Capacity: 15 people

RSVP and cost

The funds from this event will help us keep running Wearers Festival (hey, remember we are a non-profit organisation!). We kept the cost fair and accessible, promise:
-Cost for the trio of events, attending the conversation with Claire in person: £22
-Cost for the trio of events, attending the conversation with Claire digitally: £12 (this option is for you if you are not London-based).

PLEASE NOTE: The events (with the exception of the conversation with Claire) can NOT be attended separately. Attendants must sign up for the package of 3 events.

About Patchwork: A Life Amongst Clothes

Claire Wilcox has been a curator of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum for most of her working life. In Patch Work, she turns her curator's eye to the fabric of life itself, tugging at the threads of memory: a cardigan worn by a child, a tin button box, the draping of a curtain, a pair of cycling shorts, a roll of lace, a pin hidden in a seam. Through these intimate and compelling close-ups, we see how the stories and the secrets of clothes measure out the passage of time, our gains and losses, and the way we use them to unravel and write our histories.

About Claire Wilcox

Claire Wilcox has been Senior Curator of Fashion at the V&A since 2004, where she has curated exhibitions including Radical Fashion, The Art and Craft of Gianni Versace, Vivienne Westwood, The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947–1957, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, and, as co-curator, Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up and instigated Fashion in Motion (live catwalk events in the museum) in 1999. She is a Professor in Fashion Curation at the London College of Fashion and is on the editorial board of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture. She lives in South London.

About Joly Licks

Fausta Joly is a poet/performer and arts events organiser; with her company, Joly Licks - hosting workshops and mini-festivals designed to spread the word that creativity is a guarantee of sanity! Recently published in collaboration with Transient Light Tarot deck - providing the poetry for the guide book. Check the beautiful deck out here! She has performed her poetry all over London and for festivals in Berlin, Portugal, the U.S. and the U.K. Currently residing in Greenwich and working on her first poetry collection. Delighted to be programmed for Wearers Festival and given the opportunity to find new creases and stories from your favourite garments through the wonderful tool of verse!

About Wearers Festival

Wearers Festival is a permanent multidisciplinary art festival that celebrates and explores the diversity of London and the UK through the dress codes of its communities.

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  • bookpublishing
  • bookclub
  • creativewriting
  • creativewritingproject
  • memoir
  • literature
  • conversation
  • writingworkshop
  • bookpresentation

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Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes, series of events.London, United Kingdom