Tidal Fibers: Working with Seaweed-based Bioyarn
The Building Centre 26 Store Street London WC1E 7BT
About this Event
✨ Part of KINDFIRE — the eco-artivist exhibition by GREENy bastARTs during London Climate Action Week 2026.
Join us for an experimental hands-on textile workshop exploring the creative potential of seaweed as a sustainable material for future-making practices.
Led by Joana Alarcão, Tidal Fibers invites participants to discover how algae-based bio-yarn can be transformed into tactile textile structures through traditional craft techniques and material experimentation.
🌊 Seaweed is an abundant and versatile natural resource deeply connected to coastal ecosystems and historical material practices. During this workshop, participants will learn a simple process for creating seaweed bio-yarn and explore how this unconventional fiber behaves when manipulated into textile forms.
During the session, participants will:
🌿 Learn how to process seaweed into bio-yarn
🧶 Explore the texture, flexibility, and resistance of algae-based fibers
🪢 Experiment with crochet, weaving, and knotting techniques
🌊 Create small textile samples and fabric-like structures
🤍 Engage in collaborative and individual experimentation with sustainable materials
The workshop focuses on exploration, tactile learning, and material curiosity rather than technical perfection. Participants will investigate how natural fibers can inspire alternative textile futures rooted in ecological awareness and regenerative practices.
No previous textile experience is required — the session is open to beginners, makers, artists, designers, and anyone curious about sustainable materials and experimental craft practices.
✨ All materials are provided.
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🔥 ABOUT KINDFIRE
KINDFIRE is a 10-day eco-artivist exhibition and public programme created by GREENy bastARTs as part of London Climate Action Week 2026.
Positioned as an independent artistic hub for climate dialogue and collective action, KINDFIRE brings together artists, activists, researchers, filmmakers, designers, and communities through exhibitions, workshops, talks, screenings, performances, and participatory events.
🗓️ 18–28 June 2026
📍 The Building Centre
🕘 Mon–Fri • 9am–5pm
🎉 Preview Night: 18 June • 5–8pm
🌿 Finissage: 28 June • 4–6pm
GREENy bastARTs
We are an international eco-artivist collective bridging environmental understanding and transformative action across Europe. We create transformative artistic experiences that awaken ecological consciousness and inspire meaningful action. Rooted in marine conservation and expanding across the wider ecological web, we highlight how ocean health is inseparable from terrestrial environments, climate systems and all life forms.
We aim to build an interconnected ecosystem of artists, scientists, professionals, activists and communities who collaborate to protect and restore planetary health. Through expanding networks, innovative partnerships and continuous creative exploration, we foster a global community that sees environmental action as joyful, essential, creative work for the common good of all life.
Some may find our name provocative - and that is no accident. Its subversive ring is indeed intentional, yet wrapped in etymology, carrying a meaning far deeper and more symbiotic beyond the determined, activist spirit it proudly carries. GREEN and ART speak for themselves. BAST, however, is the strong inner fibre of plants (such as flax, hemp, jute and linden) - b fibres once essential to seafaring life. They formed ropes, nets, sails, …and maritime textiles. Bast was the material that held communities to the water, binding survival, exploration and connection. GREENy bastARTs revives that lineage under contemporary light.
We weave artists, scientists and citizens into a living network for planetary repair. As bast fibres once held ships afloat, bastARTs holds hope, action, and imagination together. In a world mistreated by greed and divided by fear, let us stand strong and united as free-thinkers, hope-bringers, and empathic re-connectors to our one, whole, wondrous ecosystem.
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