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Faces and Places


 I coordinate a unique community art group which comes together weekly to create, chat and share . It is a friendly, non-judgemental , socially conscious group. Our current project is to create stitched portraits in return for a donation to the Newcastle (NSW) Women's Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service - NWDVCAS supports women and their children seeking information and help about domestic and family violence, and how to get protection from the court. Domestic violence is the most common form of assault in Australia today and takes on many forms. Physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuses such as frequent insults or intimidation, economic abuse and control of your money, social abuse like not allowing you to see friends or family or use your phone, and spiritual abuse such as using your beliefs to ridicule you, are all examples of domestic or family violence. Domestic and family violence can be perpetrated by intimate partners, children, carers, other residents in a group home, and kinship relations. NWDVCAS has specialist workers to help all women including Aboriginal women, women from multicultural backgrounds, older women and women with disability to access services, support and justice to be free from violence.


Already many  Wednesday group participants who have completed Faces and/or Places  ( see photo above)  and many  have donated funds to the Newcastle Women's Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service by commissioning a portrait. These portraits have become far more popular as gifts than we could have imagined, and we have quite a number in queue waiting for creative stitching. Unfortunately, any requests we receive from now on will not be ready before Christmas - apologies but remember these are all handstitched with love and care! .


The Wednesday Group at Timeless Textiles will be stitching non stop until 14 December 2022 and we will be having a break until 11 January 2023. If you would like to be amongst the first to have a portrait stitched in the new year, please feel free to submit now, with the understanding that it won't be started until January. For more info; https://timelesstextiles.com.au/faces-and-places/

Image : various completed portraits created by Wendy, Ann-Maree, Sue, Lyn and Wilma from the Wednesday Wednesday Group at Timeless Textiles ... 

Please join us any Wednesday - all welcome_ at Timeless Textiles , 90 Hunter Street Newcastle East NSW , 10.30am - 12.30pm.   

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