‘WEAVING WASTE’

Communal Art Installation

with Intertwine Arts at Sister Pats Kids Camp

New York, 2023

Sister Pats Kids Camp is a free outreach annual one week summer camp for children aged six to fourteen with cancer and blood disorders. As part of Intertwine Arts weaving program we co-facilitated a community weaving art installation set up as a supplementary communal activity for the children to drop by during their breaks. The aim was to engage the children as well as the young volunteer counsellors to have fun experimenting with weaving a variety of different waste materials whilst encouraging them to collect any waste materials found around the camp to foster a sustainable ethos in the camp through creative reuse. Discarded foil balloons, fabrics cut into strips and leftover yarns from the weaving program were woven with some of the children even weaving in medical tubing with help of the on-site nurses.

  • Weaving waste is a powerful art activity, it teaches us how we could start learning how to reduce waste and turn our daily trash into art.

    Camp Counsellor

  • I enjoyed this and so did the kids. Small things that make a difference.

    Camp Counsellor

  • I loved this. I added material four different times. The last two times were things i'd picked up off the floor.

    Camp Counsellor

  • It was a great idea to teach kids how to reduce and reuse materials through art

    Camp Team Member

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