Magic Carpets #3 – Embroidery Workshop
CAP – Cities Art Projects took part to the realization of the workshop created by Latitudo Art Projects with the artist Sara Basta for the third edition of Magic Carpets Italia (MagiC Carpets #3) and La Fantastica, a festival addressed to the Trullo district, its multiple facets, to its history and its inhabitants.
The workshop was held in the Trullo neighborhood, where the well-known writer Gianni Rodari set The Pie in the Sky (1964).
Sara Basta created a group of 15 women from the neighborhood with whom to carry out the workshop. Initially, the artist chose a few phrases from Gianni Rodari’s The Grammar of Fantasy, phrases then transferred to the women who embroidered them on fabrics. For about 3 months, labotarial activities took place in the former Baccelli School, from May to September 2020.
Following the workshop and the MagiC Carpets project, some women decided to create a new working group in the same neighborhood called the “Trullo Girls Workshop”.
Among the main objectives are: the enhancement of the neighborhood and the attempt to make its history and beauty known even outside, the desire to make known, especially to the youngest, the ancient art of wool weaving, to develop eco-sustainable methods using waste materials and local wool to preserve the importance of reuse and recycling for the new generations and above all the importance of promoting local activities and producers.
Following participation in the workshops, the Trullo Girls Workshop won the European Community Award CO-CREATE & COMPREHEND, with which it was able to purchase the materials to carry out further work.