THREADS + Matthew Rankin Retrospective
Quilting empowers women and their families in Threads, screening with a retrospective of award-winning shorts by Matthew Rankin.
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Quilting (faire de la couverture piquée) permet aux femmes et à leurs familles de participer à Threads, avec une rétrospective des courts métrages primés de Matthew Rankin.
Carbon Arc Cinema presents Threads at 7:25pm with a retrospective of Winnipeg filmmaker Matthew Rankin screening the rest of the evening. Short films will play throughout the night - stop by to enjoy the fun, funny, and beautifully bizarre worlds of Matthew Rankin along with the inspirational short documentary, Threads .Threads, set in Bangladesh, tells the story of how an 86-year old artist transforms an ancient tradition of quilting into a contemporary art, empowering thousands of women and their families over three decades. As a young girl in Calcutta, Surayia had the seemingly impossible dream of being an artist. Over the course of her long life, she found her destiny in art and community, opening opportunity for thousands in Bangladesh and bringing an ancient quilting tradition into the present. Surayia's story-telling designs have been presented to royalty and dignitaries, including Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Threads screening sponsored by the Bangladesh Community Association of Nova Scotia.