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Contribute a Patch to Hull’s World AIDS Day Community Quilt 🌈🧵

For World AIDS Day 2025 (1st Dec), we’re inviting anyone who would like to, to contribute to a new World AIDS Day Community Quilt, as and individual, youth group or organisation.

We’re inviting you to contribute 6x6 inch fabric square(s) to a community quilt, squares submitted before the 28th November, will initially be displayed in Hull city centre on 29th & 30th November at our open drop-in quilt-making sessions at FORUM, Princes Quay (12–3pm each day), before being joined together to form a beautiful community artwork quilt.  Everyone is of course welcome to attend the drop-in sessions if they prefer.

Your patch will be part of a collective artwork to honour lives lost, celebrate resilience, and show solidarity with people living with HIV and AIDS.

📐 Patch Specifications:

Size: 6x6 inches (15x15 cm)
Border: Please leave a ½ inch border (unstitched) around the edge to allow for joining the quilt
Material: Any fabric is welcome — cotton, calico, felt, etc.
Technique: Sew, paint, draw, glue, embroider — whatever suits your style and ability

🎨 Theme Ideas:

Your design can reflect any aspect of World AIDS Day, such as:

❤️ Remembrance of someone lost

🌈 Messages of love and hope

🗣️ Calls to end HIV stigma

✊ Solidarity with the LGBTQ+ and HIV+ communities

💬 Quotes, symbols, or abstract designs that speak to compassion and unity

If you’d like, you can also include a short written message to be kept with the quilt — a note of hope, remembrance, or encouragement for future generations to read and reflect on.

📮 Submission Deadline:

Please send or drop off your patch before 28th November so it can be included in the public display.   OR
If you’d like more time, the final call for patches is 9th January 2026 to be included in the final piece.

📍 Drop-off/Postal Info:

Cornerhouse (Yorkshire), 29 Percy Street, Hull, HU2 8HL

Please include your name and contact so we can let you know about the future display. The final quilt will be displayed for World AIDS Day 2026.

If you’d like to join us in person, come along to our drop-in quilt square making sessions at FORUM, Princes Quay, on 29th & 30th November, 12–3pm. All materials will be provided, and everyone is welcome.

Background:

The original AIDS Memorial Quilt was conceived in the US in 1985 by activist Cleve Jones and continues to serve as a powerful memorial to those who have died from AIDS-related causes — symbolising the impact of the epidemic on the LGBTQ+ community and beyond.

Since then, AIDS quilts have appeared around the world in many beautiful forms. We last made one in Hull in 2005, marking 20 years since the original quilt. Now, another 20 years on, it feels fitting to create a new one — to raise awareness, end stigma, and share the love of the amazing community who have both been affected by and supported those living with HIV and AIDS.

Cornerhouse began life as the community group AIDS Action, formally registering as a charity in 1988. While our work looks different today, our values, ethos and pride are rooted in those beginnings.

If you’re not feeling crafty but would like to show your support for World AIDS  Day we also have a range of red ribbon charity t-shirt and other items available which supports our work. You can find here Red Ribbon | We Are Cornerhouse Apparel

📧 Questions? Email vivblackledge@wearecornerhouse.org or message @wearecornerhouse on social media.

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Thank you for helping us stitch together something truly meaningful.