Hope Unbound: Fabric, Voice, and the Holy Imagination
What if hope isn’t something we wait for, but something we make?
In this interactive, hands-on workshop, participants will explore how fabric and voice become vessels for worship, expression, and transformation. Through natural dyeing, simple textile design, poetry, and dramatic expression, we’ll engage practices that invite the body, the imagination, and the Spirit into the work of creating worship.
Together, we’ll experiment with color drawn from the earth, words shaped by lived experience, and movement that brings prayer to life. Participants will have the opportunity to begin crafting paraments or stoles while also giving voice to their own stories through spoken word and performance. This is not about perfection or expertise. It’s about making space for wild, embodied hope to emerge through our hands, our breath, and our shared creativity.
You’ll be guided by James Potts, Associate Pastor, DEdMin candidate, and quilter, who sees creativity as a sacred practice and delights in helping people encounter God through making, storytelling, and shared experience. Alongside him is Jess Foy, Program Coordinator for Faith Formation with Children, Youth, and Young Adults in the Presbyterian Church in Canada, who brings a deep love of community-building, creativity, and faith formation shaped by her work with young people and leaders across the church.
Together, they create a space where theology, fabric, story, and imagination are woven together, grounded in the belief that the Spirit often shows up at tables covered in thread, color, and curiosity.
Come ready to create, to play, and to discover how hope can be seen, heard, and even worn.
