World Wide Weave Opening Reception

World Wide Weave Opening Reception

Thursday, June 02, 2016 World Wide Weave Opening Reception

ABOUT THE EVENT

The Camphill Foundation World Wide Weave Exhibition is coming to the village of Yellow Springs. The exhibit includes 75 wall hangings of weaving, tapestry, felting and other techniques. This extraordinary show will open June 1 and continue through July 6. This is the first time the exhibition will be in the United States and will only be exhibited in Pennsylvania and in New York. The public is invited to an opening reception on Thursday, June 2 from 6-8 p.m.

The Camphill Movement inspires participants to create and maintain communities in which children, youth, and adults with special needs can live, learn, and work with others in healthy social relationships based on mutual care and respect. Camphill is at the forefront of promoting the understanding that people living with developmental disabilities and learning differences have truly extraordinary creative talents and skills of all kinds, practical, social and artistic.

Three Camphill communities are located in Chester County: Camphill Soltane, Camphill Special School, and Camphill Village Kimberton Hills. All three communities are a part of this exhibit and like the incredibly rich mix of people who constantly interweave their lives and destinies in the network of Camphill communities; they all have the same set of core principles at heart. The exhibition expresses all the wonderfully varied and diverse characteristics of single communities coming together in one great artistic panorama of Camphill.

The World Wide Weave, an international textile project and exhibition, originated in the United Kingdom and Ireland to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Camphill Movement from 1940-2015. The pieces have been created by 65 textile workshops in 19 countries worldwide. The program originated to celebrate the creative life in the Camphill locations in the UK and Ireland but also throughout Europe, Canada and the United States. The exhibit has been in 20 locations in public buildings, art galleries and museums in the UK and Ireland and elsewhere in Europe and now, for the first time, will travel to the United States, Switzerland and Norway in 2016.