This month at Pulling Together we completed our Heartstone Banner. It was wonderful to see how the individual panels came together to tell a story of its own. A story of a local group who shared their own histories whilst meeting and creating the textile and chose what they thought best told the story of Chandra and the mice in the search for the Heartstone. Her experiences with racism was something we could all identify with and her courage to overcome these attitudes was what we all have had to do in the past. Using the Union Flag cloth as a backing for our banner was a choice made by the group by showing how the flag is often hijacked by groups who are against immigration and can make us feel uncomfortable in feeling proud for the flag of the country we have all chosen to call home. The most exciting news is that the banner will go on show in the Trafford schools that took part in the project including Urmston Grammar School.
Pulling Together Asian Women's Group 