Samizdat Sundays
Sunday, September 6, 2026 · 10:30 AM PDT · The Wende Museum · Culver City, CA
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Join us for Samizdat Sundays—hands‑on textile workshops inspired by the spirit of creative resistance and DIY culture found in samizdat traditions. Each week offers a different project, connecting archival stories of subversion with contemporary making. We encourage participants to bring an item each week—a T‑shirt, a pair of jeans, or any textile you’re ready to transform, repair, or experiment with. Each session is free, open to all skill levels, and guided by artists who delight in subversion and play. Come for one or come for all—together we’ll stitch, alter, repair, and imagine new forms of expression. Join us for Samizdat Sundays—hands‑on textile workshops inspired by the spirit of creative resistance and DIY culture found in samizdat traditions. Each week offers a different project, connecting archival stories of subversion with contemporary making. August 30: Finish It Clinic. Today, we will finish up projects. If you don’t have anything to finish, don’t despair! Come and I will give you a project from a past workshop to do during our time together. September 6: Model Memory In “The Sextant,” the exhibition in the main gallery of the museum, artist Enrique Martinez Celaya presents a handful of paintings and sculptures, including a scaled-down replica of the house his father built in the sugar-producing town in Cuba where Martinez-Celaya grew up. The slippery nature of memory and a deep sense of loss emanate from the work, some of which are quite literally covered in suffocating sugar, which seems to imply the weight that memories can carry. The installation touches on exile, dislocation, and the incongruities of memory and dream and our actual lived experience. This week, we will visit the exhibition together and then return to the classroom to make a model of a place from memory. This model can be a 3D sculpture, a collage, a 2D drawing, or a textile piece, or perhaps a combination. It can be of a whole place or a small detail; a window sill or a…
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