Sports holiday at the Public Art Agency Sweden: Den sociala väven with Sarai Alvarez Riveros  

When: 25 Feb, 14.00–17.00 2025
Where: Svensksundsvägen 11A, Skeppsholmen
Sign up: Admission free and open to all! No pre-registration required.
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Welcome to a creative sports holiday workshop where you can embroider in all the colours of the rainbow with artist Sarai Alvarez Riveros! Children, young people and adults, experienced embroiderers and curious beginners are all welcome to contribute to the social web of the artwork.

En kvinna som håller i en sax bredvid en annan kvinna
Image 1 of 4. Den sociala väven med konstnären Sarai Alvarez Riveros.
En grupp människor som står bredvid varandra
Image 2 of 4. Den sociala väven med konstnären Sarai Alvarez Riveros.
Image 3 of 4. Jean-Baptiste Béranger
En korg fylld med garn och virknålar
Image 4 of 4. Den sociala väven med konstnären Sarai Alvarez Riveros.

During a sports holiday afternoon, artist Sarai Alvarez Riveros invites you to join in creating the artwork Den sociala väven in the exhibition Make it Grow – Textile expressions as public art, shown at the Public Art Agency Sweden.

Den sociala väven is an art project in which you embroider with colourful yarn threads and together everyone who is involved contributes to the emergence of the artwork through an interaction between textiles, crafts and community.

Den sociala väven is an art project that is ongoing for several years and takes place in various public places. The work consists of a wooden stand with jute fabric and embroidery thread where different people leave their own traces in the fabric. The work carries both autobiographical and historical references. The material tells the story of the jute fabric that was used during the artist’s childhood in Chile to pack goods and protect food from the sun. At the age of eight, a piece of jute fabric became Sarai Alvarez Riveros’s first embroidery canvas.

By jointly creating social spaces where we meet and create together, the artist wants to awaken a sense of belonging in public places. We make the spaces and the art together.

About the artist

Sarai Alvarez Riveros is an artist trained in textiles and design, she is a tailor and living workshop educator, a pedagogy developed by hand, thought and feeling. Sarai Alvarez Riveros is currently studying at the Friends of Handcraft Higher Textile Crafts Programme.

Time and place

When: 25 February, 14.00–17.00
Where: Svensksundsvägen 11A, Skeppsholmen
Registration: Admission free and open to all! No pre-registration required.