Healing Circle & Sewing Basics for African Americans

Wed, Oct 7, 2026 at 6:00pm CST

IDS Center, Minneapolis, MN

80 South 8th StreetMinneapolis, MN 55402

Free

Event Description

Pillow -making socials & healing circle for Black Americans to reconnect, discuss trauma & be uplifted by learning an ancestral trade skill

Healing Through Our Hands: Reclaiming the Ancestral Trade Skill of Sewing. This healing project is funded by the Clean Water, Land andLegacy Amendment and Minnesota Humanities

Sewing is more than a skill—it is a trade skill that has lived in the hands of our ancestors for generations.

This FREE experience is being created specifically for African Americans as a space to heal, learn, create, and reconnect. Led by Keiona Cook, founder of Lovely’s Sewing & Arts Collective, who has spent over 17 years teaching sewing and has helped teach more than 1,700 people how to sew, each participant will learn the basics of sewing while creating their own pillow to take home.

But we’re not just sewing. As our hands create, we’ll come together in a Healing Circle to have honest conversations about how trauma is affecting us as African Americans in our local community, while also exploring the history of sewing within our ancestry and why reclaiming this trade skill matters today.

Choose ONE FREE evening to attend:September 21–25 or October 5–9

6:00–9:00 PM

IDS Center – Skyway Level

Limited to 20 participants each evening

Come as you are. Leave with something you made with your own hands—and a deeper connection to a skill our ancestors carried before us.

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