My name is Marianne, I am from Chile, the long and thin country in
South America.
I am travelling for 1 year around Australia and soon across to India and Nepal.
I am fascinated in the human being and its capacity to create and
love. I believe that each individual has a special gift, a unique
talent that could transform the world. This is our work in life, to
discover it.
I love the words of Alejandro Jodorowsky, who says: "If not you?...
who? If not now?... when? If not here?... where? If not for all?...
for what?".Try to discover that every day, inspire me.
I learnt how to knit when I was a little girl (younger) by observing
my mother and grandmother.
When I am knitting, the time disappears, my mind stops thinking and
becomes calm and in peace… I introduce myself in a sacred space.
I want to keep this art alive- I want to share this skill with other
people. It is a gift of our grandparents and our great grandparents,
and if we don´t continue learning and teaching it, it will disappear.
Nowadays, a lot of people look for fast results. Knitting is an
invitation to stop the clock, to be an artist, to look around and feel
inspired by the colors that surround us and translate them into an
item of clothing or an object made by our own hands.
By Making something with our own hands, we become empowered, we
realize that we don’t need always to depend of others. To buy new
staffs.
What I would like to offer to you for the Hub building is to develop
a knitting workshop day where I can teach the people to knit and also
invite the people who already know how to knit. They could also teach
others their techniques.
What I want is to take a time to teach them this old tradition,
knitting pieces of different colors and forms. We are not looking for
the best, we would like to encourage people to use their hands.
This workshop is not only about knitting. It is mainly about
discovering the own creativity and share a new experience. Sometimes
it’s hard for some people to join together and communicate between
each other. The feeling in a community inspires people, specially in
current days when we take so much time in front of a computer, talk
largely by phone or watch TV for many hours.,
This workshop is an invitation to share an experience, but over all to
bring this experience lived there to our daily life: all of us have
the potenciality to make the things we want to do. Each have a great
capacity to learn and create . And when we share with others what we
do with love and also working all together in the same direction, the
results can be wonderful…. And that is the HUB for me. A oportunity
to work togheter in community and make dreams become trut.
My proposal is to use each and all pieces knitted in the workshop to
make what is named “knitting graffity”. We will use the pieces to
decorate creatively a space in the Hub building. An idea is to dress
a tree (like the picture attached). Other idea is to make a big flag
with many colors, like the peace flag.
Usually, people think that they can’t change the face of the world but
actually, if we all act together we can ….
Let's...... Knittg!!
Warms regards
Love
Marianne
South America.
I am travelling for 1 year around Australia and soon across to India and Nepal.
I am fascinated in the human being and its capacity to create and
love. I believe that each individual has a special gift, a unique
talent that could transform the world. This is our work in life, to
discover it.
I love the words of Alejandro Jodorowsky, who says: "If not you?...
who? If not now?... when? If not here?... where? If not for all?...
for what?".Try to discover that every day, inspire me.
I learnt how to knit when I was a little girl (younger) by observing
my mother and grandmother.
When I am knitting, the time disappears, my mind stops thinking and
becomes calm and in peace… I introduce myself in a sacred space.
I want to keep this art alive- I want to share this skill with other
people. It is a gift of our grandparents and our great grandparents,
and if we don´t continue learning and teaching it, it will disappear.
Nowadays, a lot of people look for fast results. Knitting is an
invitation to stop the clock, to be an artist, to look around and feel
inspired by the colors that surround us and translate them into an
item of clothing or an object made by our own hands.
By Making something with our own hands, we become empowered, we
realize that we don’t need always to depend of others. To buy new
staffs.
What I would like to offer to you for the Hub building is to develop
a knitting workshop day where I can teach the people to knit and also
invite the people who already know how to knit. They could also teach
others their techniques.
What I want is to take a time to teach them this old tradition,
knitting pieces of different colors and forms. We are not looking for
the best, we would like to encourage people to use their hands.
This workshop is not only about knitting. It is mainly about
discovering the own creativity and share a new experience. Sometimes
it’s hard for some people to join together and communicate between
each other. The feeling in a community inspires people, specially in
current days when we take so much time in front of a computer, talk
largely by phone or watch TV for many hours.,
This workshop is an invitation to share an experience, but over all to
bring this experience lived there to our daily life: all of us have
the potenciality to make the things we want to do. Each have a great
capacity to learn and create . And when we share with others what we
do with love and also working all together in the same direction, the
results can be wonderful…. And that is the HUB for me. A oportunity
to work togheter in community and make dreams become trut.
My proposal is to use each and all pieces knitted in the workshop to
make what is named “knitting graffity”. We will use the pieces to
decorate creatively a space in the Hub building. An idea is to dress
a tree (like the picture attached). Other idea is to make a big flag
with many colors, like the peace flag.
Usually, people think that they can’t change the face of the world but
actually, if we all act together we can ….
Let's...... Knittg!!
Warms regards
Love
Marianne
