About this event
LearningSaturday, November 28, 2026 | 1-4 PM
FREE
This workshop has been developed exclusively for Immigrant, Refugee, and Newcomer participants, with thanks to Toronto Arts Council Funding via their Newcomer and Refugee Arts Engagement program.
This workshop introduces participants to the Pakistani tradition of Truck Art reinterpreted through thread embroidery. Truck Art in Pakistan has strong connections to identity, self-expression, and belonging. Freight trucks are highly personal objects, and their decoration often reflect the personality and individuality of their drivers through colour, imagery, poetry, humour, and symbolism.
In this workshop participants are invited to re-interpret a truck-art motif (the “gulab”/rose) using thread, transforming an art form that is typically large, public, and highly colourful into a small, tactile, personal object. The process requires adapting elements such as colour, line, scale, and detail to the possibilities of thread rather than paint. Participants will experience this translation themselves as they reinterpret the rose motif using embroidery and ultimately turn their piece into a keychain they can cherish for a long time.