Weaving Practices from Tarabuco, Bolivia – Shared Dialogue and Film Screening

Join our conversation about Indigenous textile knowledge from the Tarabuco community in Bolivia and the cultural meanings of weaving beyond technique. Through storytelling, shared reflections, and lived experience, this event explores weaving as a social, spiritual, and political practice. At the same time, weaving practices have been shaped by ongoing colonial and capitalist structures, which have commodified textiles and altered the social and cultural relationships embedded in their production. The event creates space to rethink who benefits from cultural production and how Indigenous weaving continues to negotiate power, visibility, and survival. The conversation is followed by a screening of the short film “Awanasunchis (2020/21)” showing impressions of weaving as a living cultural practice. Together with Leo Stotz from the Tarabuco community and founder of the Fundación Cultural Ayllu Tarabucomanta from Bolivia, we invite you to a welcoming space for exchange, dialogue, and shared experiences. Come by, be part of it and experience textiles through touch. The event is part of the outreach programme for the exhibition ‘Dressing Resistance: Fashion and the Heritage of Mission’ at the Global Heritage Lab/P26.