Life Quilt SA ProjectA community art project to promote awareness of the impact of work place accidents and fatalities on families, friends and work colleagues/associates.

Quilts and Banners Have been an important part of the Workers' movement and the Women's movement Made to display the demands or the cause Become an important part of the history of the movement and a reminder of the cause Are important works of art in their own right

Quilts and Banners

Quilts and Banners

Quilts and Banners

Life Quilt SA Sue Morley Program Manager and Textile Artist

for the Life Quilt SA Project Hosting the Project: Australian Safe Communities Foundation Working Womens Centre SA Inc [WWC SA] SA Unions

Life Quilt SALife Quilt SA is inspired by the Young Workers Memorial Life Quilt in Canada to pay tribute to those who are woven together in life by a common thread a workplace injury

Canadas Life Quilt

Quilt Artist:Laurie Swim

Life Quilt SA

While work place fatalities and injuries may make news when they occur, there is little recognition of the long term impact work place accidents have on workers families, friends and co-workers.

Life Quilt SAThe aims of the Life Quilt SA Project are to; Commemorate the lives of people who have died at work in SA Acknowledge that co-workers will be affected by the death of a colleague at work Acknowledge the long term impact of work place deaths on families and friends Raise awareness of the importance of safety at work Create a beautiful piece of art

Life Quilt SAThe Life Quilt SA Project will produce: a quilted banner, representing people who have died at work a digital documentary on the impact of workplace fatalities on victims families written accounts and photographs of the people involved in the documentary.

Quilt Project Timor-Leste

Life Quilt SA

Life Quilt SA

Life Quilt SA

Quilt Project Timor-LesteWhat would a Timor-Leste quilt look like? Who would be involved? What issue would it focus on? How would it be funded? Who would work on the quilt? What traditional techniques could be incorporated? Where would the quilt or banner hang when completed? How would the quilt be used to raise awareness?