A world outside my window - an embroidery workshop
Sun, 03 May
|The Brewery.
Come join us for an embroidery workshop The World Outside My Window. We will stitch our wild neighbours—the sparrows, the banyan tree or the lizard roaming on our walls—onto handkerchiefs .No experience needed, only the memory of a creature or a tree that has shared your space
Time & Location
03 May 2026, 10:00 am
The Brewery., The Distillery R1, Museum Square, Alembic City, BIDC Gorwa Estate, Gorwa, Vadodara, Gujarat 390003, India
About the event
Akshar Gajjar is an architect and textile artist, currently a PhD student at EPFL Lausanne. His art practice center on Gujarati embroidery to explore personal and collective histories linked to culture, identity, and environment. Alongside Stephanie Cadoret, he runs a textile-based community space in Lausanne.
He has facilitated embroidery workshops in academic settings in Zurich and Lausanne and in gallery and community settings in Geneva and Venice. His workshops are an invitation to use embroidery to reflect on personal experiences and surroundings and document silenced, hidden or forgotten stories.