Welcome To The Water Quilt Project!
Channel: ARTivism Virginia
Date: 2021-02-14

ARTivism Virginia, in collaboration with Appalachian Voices, POWHR, Haw River Assembly (NC) and Preserve Monroe (WV) is pleased to invite you to participate in the Water Quilt Project to honor and protect the waterways of Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina threatened by the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Water protectors from these directly impacted regions as well as anyone from around the globe are invited. There are many ways to participate and we hope you will find your own way among them.  
 
To learn more and participate in the project fill out this form: 
www.tinyurl.com/WaterQuiltProject
 
- Individuals can create a square for the Water Quilt that gives voice to the water or the waterway they love and value. 
 
- Organizations and faith communities can endorse the project as Patchwork Partners. 
 
- All can contribute a short video or photo for our “Weaving Waters” song video.  

- Anyone can attend one of three monthly “Stitching Story & Silence Circles”  and share their story, their quilt square creation or just a quiet time to sew together in this time of distance and concern.
  
- You can choose to make a square for a regional neighbor who is directly impacted or who is working to protect our water future in other ways.  
 
- We hope many will invite others to join the project including and especially those who may not yet be aware of the Mountain Valley Pipeline challenge.
 
 
Follow the Water Quilt Project here:
- ARTivism on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/artivismvirginia/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/artivismvirginia
 
Email us with your questions and ideas here:  waterquiltproject@gmail.com
 
The Water Quilt squares will be assembled by ARTivism Virginia and completed squares should be in our hands by May 1st, 2021.  
 
How and when we fully finish and bring the Water Quilt to our communities is, of course, pandemic safety dependent, but we dream of a quilting bee gathering by the banks of a Virginia river come June.  If this cannot be, we will send the Quilt on tour to a safe outdoor space near you.  
 
Join us!
 
Music: “Hallelujah” - Written by Karisha Longaker & Sarah Nutting of MaMuse, performed by Emily Blankenship-Tucker, Rachel Blankenship-Tucker, and Bernadette Lark

Animation by Zap McConnell
https://www.zapmcconnell.com/about

Water Quilt Project graphic design by Virginia Greene Illustration
http://www.virginiagreeneillustration.com

Our partners in the Water Quilt Project:

- Appalachian Voices: http://www.appvoices.org/
- POWHR Coaltion: http://www.powhr.org/
- Haw River Assembly: http://www.hawriver.org/
- Preserve Monroe: http://indiancreekwatershedassociation.org/preservemonroe

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