Open Call: House of Haberdash
Torriano Meeting House, London, UK
Application Deadline: 24.02.2025
This summer 2025, in association with TEXTUS, the Torriano Meeting House will transform into the HOUSE OF HABERDASH, a group exhibition and series of activations, including readings, workshops and sales.
Derived from 'haberdashery', HOUSE OF HABERDASH invites writers, artists and designers to submit their wares and become part of a whirlwind summer of haberdashing —
We are interested in work that explores the items you might find in historical, modern or fantastical haberdasheries: zips, buttons, pins, hats, thread, hosiery…let your imaginations run and dash —
Haberdashery and the history of haberdasheries evoke an assortment of themes and ideas: localism, repair, upcycling, trade, collecting, ornament, detail, nostalgia, craft, smallness...The items you might find in real or imagined haberdasheries hold limitless opportunities for exploration...
Our call-out is an offering, a starting point for your unique interpretation. So, have fun with it, be inventive with it, get political with it, start haberdashing —
TEXTUS is a curatorial and publishing project that brings interdisciplinary creatives together to explore, critique and re-imagine fashion and textile environments, design, history, culture, language and logic. We curate exhibitions and events and publish irregularly. We are an evolving network that encourages experimentation and play, makes space for creative research and development and fosters collaboration and community across disciplines. You can follow us on Instagram at @textus.network, our website is incoming...
The Torriano Meeting House is a volunteer-run arts and community space in Kentish Town, London. It is an intimate room with a stage and has an old painted shop front. Its spirit is anarchist, bohemian and poetic. It is a meeting place to create, collaborate and form relationships, a space for trying things out, a seedbed for new ideas. The address of the Torriano Meeting House is 99 Torriano Avenue, Kentish Town, London, NW5 2RX. This is where HOUSE OF HABERDASH will take place. The Torriano hosted TEXTUS' founding exhibition; view images of it via this link to get a sense of the space: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cuh54nJtZfJ/?img_index=1 For more information about the Torriano, visit their website: https://torriano.org/
Key Dates
Submission deadline: 12 Midnight Monday 24th February 2025
Delivery dates: TBC
Opening night for contributors: Friday 6th June 2025
Exhibition dates: Saturday 7th June - Sunday 10th August 2025. Open weekends 11am-5pm with further opportunities to view the exhibition when the meeting house is open during the week for events.
Collection dates: Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th August 2025
SUBMISSION FORM WITH FURTHER DETAILS: https://shorturl.at/57JWl