Workshops

material disobedience:

Embroidery as Making Space: A Hands-on Workshop with Théo Bignon

Friday May 29, 4-7pm at Roozamoon Café (398 Queen St E). Free with RSVP, limited spots.

• Artist-led Workshop: Friday May 29, 4–7pm at Roozamoon Café (398 Queen St E). Free with RSVP.
• Panel Discussion: Saturday May 30, 1–3pm at Harbourfront Studio Theatre (235 Queens Quay W). Free with RSVP.
• Exhibition Opening Reception: Saturday May 30, 6–10pm at The Lost & Found Project Space.

Embroidery as Making Space: A Hands-on Workshop with Théo Bignon

• Friday May 29, 4-7pm at Roozamoon Café (398 Queen St E). Free with RSVP, limited spots.

Join Montreal-based artist Théo Bignon in an embroidery and embellishment workshop, oriented around the possibilities of queer place-making. Come learn about his beading technique and create your own embellished embroidery. Bignon’s practice of embroidering and beading meaningful locations in queer life to mark the relationship between place and the crafting of queer identity. Participants are encouraged to bring an image of or an object from a place that is important to them and their identity — this could be from spaces of friendship, found family, sexual liberation, emotional release, transition, and many more. Following a short discussion of his work, Bignon will lead participants through the process of sketching, embroidering, and beading a vignette onto a small circle of cloth as a way of reflecting on our everyday, unconscious place-making practices.

 The workshop will take place at Roozamoon Café (398 Queen St E, Toronto) on Friday, May 29, 2026 from 4-7pm. The Lost & Found (located just a few doors down) will be open for an exclusive preview of the exhibition, so you can see Bignon's works in person and get inspired to create your own. 

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Workshop Archive:

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With Danielle Reygel and the CRBA, Corktown.ca

Learn to make delightfully frightful paper mache masks and help celebrate Halloween...
or...Samhain in Corktown

 

More info here: TLAF Workshops and Corktown.ca