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Friday, June 14 • 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Social Justice Sewing Academy Quilt Project with Sara Trail

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NOMCON keynote speaker, Sara Trail, founder of the Social Justice Sewing Academy, whose mission is to: piece together youth voices, textile art, and community in a 21st century sewing circle is leading a community project for up to 78 youth, where they will learn what social justice is and how their voice can be heard as they create a quilt square to address an issue or concern they have in their community. NOMCON attendees are welcome to stop by and observe. If you would like to volunteer your time to help, please contact Kate Warren directly at: kate@nomcon.org.
Speakers
avatar for Joyce Teal

Joyce Teal

Toastmasters International
Award-winning speaker, workshop leader, and coach, Joyce encourages others to find, share and live their passion with a sense of humor. Joyce has taught in academia on all levels in music, the arts, and educational therapies, on-air personality for Sunny 92.3 Radio, artist representative... Read More →
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Sara Trail

Executive Director, Social Justice Sewing Academy (SJSA)
Sara Trail once heard that “there’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless.’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” She started the Social Justice Sewing Academy to give the “preferably unheard” population a voice through activist art... Read More →
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Meredith Levine

Head of Youth Services, Chattanooga Public Library
Talk to me about public library makerspaces!

Friday June 14, 2019 1:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
Downtown Branch - Chattanooga Public Library 1001 Broad St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
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