Stitching Stories: Make a Memory patch
UK AIDS Memorial Quilt display
Date
18th Sep 2026
2.00pm - 4.30pm
Price
Free - ticket required
Location
Tramway
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This event is for LGBTQI+ young people (aged 16-25)
A creative textile workshop for LGBTQI+ young people aged 16–25, led by artist Eothen Stearn.
Join artist Eothen Stearn for a creative workshop exploring the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt and queer histories through archival materials and textile making. Eothen will share Feel My Love (2020-22), a project that brings together HIV/AIDS archival prints from the Lothian Health Services Archive, activism, oral histories and archival footage from Edinburgh's club night Joy.
Together, you will reflect on histories of care, activism, kinship, and resilience, and create your own textile patch, stitching past and present experiences. No previous textile or making experience is needed and all materials will be provided.
Participants will have the opportunity to keep a patch and contribute to a larger communal textile work.
Participants are encouraged to visit the exhibition before the workshop to spend time with the quilts and their histories.
This event is part of a public programme curated by Steven Grainger to accompany the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt exhibition at Tramway.
Audience note
Participants may find the content deeply moving, emotional, or distressing, as it deals with themes of illness, bereavement, social stigma, and historical marginalisation.
ACCESS
Tramway is fully wheelchair accessible. See more information about venue access on our Access page