SEWN SPELLS: POETRY, SYMBOLS AND STITCH

Join poet Lakshmi Kanchi to create a personal decorated textile object, and gain hands-on experience with poetic expression, ritual craft, and the embodied power of ancestral storytelling.

Drawing from the tradition of sewing protective spells into garments—wedding dresses, blouses, and cloth worn close to the skin—this workshop invites participants to create their own protective or empowering artefact. Through poetry, symbolism, and handcraft, we explore the act of making as a ritual of care, memory, and magic.

Sat 5 Jul 2025 | 11am - 1:30pm | Suitable for 18 yrs +

$110 | $100 MAC Inc. Members | Midland Junction Arts Centre

All Materials Provided.

ARTIST BIO

Lakshmi Kanchi (SoulReserve) is an emerging Indian-Australian poet on a mission—to make poetry accessible. Her writing anatomises the complex linkages between language, culture, and perception. She is the author of “Lakesong”, her debut poetry collection, published by Centre for Stories. Lakshmi won the 2023 Ros Spencer Poetry Prize and 2021 Pocketry Prize for Unpublished Poets, her works have been Shortlisted for the Heroine’s Prize and Grieve Project. Her poetry appears in ‘Australian Poetry Anthology,’ ‘Social Alternatives,’ ‘Portside Review,’ ‘Burrow Journal,’ and more. She was also the Inaugural Poet-in-Residence at The Wetlands Centre and Swan Writer-in-Residence at the Midland Courthouse.