🧵 🪡  National AIDS Memorial Quilt Repair & Panel Making Workshop -- SFPL

🧵 🪡 National AIDS Memorial Quilt Repair & Panel Making Workshop -- SFPL

🔅 Help preserve a powerful piece of history at this hands-on afternoon of quilt repair. Here, you'll contribute to the ongoing care of the AIDS Memorial Quilt by helping mend and maintain panels, ensuring this important memorial can be shared for generations to come. Common repair tasks include reattaching loose seams, replacing missing elements like lettering, adding backing fabric for fragile sections and spot cleaning.

No sewing experience needed — all are welcome!

▪︎ Meet at 12:00 pm at the SF Public Library (main branch) - Steve Silver Music Center - 4th Floor
▪︎ No sewing experience needed — all are welcome!
▪︎ PLEASE don't be a no-show. If your plans change, remember to update your RSVP prior to the event.

▪︎ If you’d like to start a new panel to honor a loved one, or get ideas and support to begin, this is a welcoming place. Sewing machines, paints, stencils, thread and other materials are provided. You’re encouraged to bring fabric or personal items (photos, pins, jewelry, etc.) you’d like to include.

Read more here:
Gert McMullin, ‘Mother of the AIDS Quilt’
https://sfpride.org/cps/aids-memorial-quilt/

Watch here: Surviving Voices - Angela Taylor
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5JuSvvbeD7I

▪︎ The AIDS Memorial Quilt is the world's largest community art project, a massive, ever-growing tapestry of personalized fabric panels honoring lives lost to HIV/AIDS. Serving as a powerful memorial, educational tool, and symbol of activism, love, and collective healing, the quilt now features over 50,000 panels, weighing tons. It continues to grow, transforming grief into a visual testament to the epidemic's impact and the resilience of affected communities.