{"id":7459,"date":"2013-10-31T13:30:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T02:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypoppet.com.au\/?p=7459"},"modified":"2015-12-13T22:10:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T11:10:31","slug":"how-to-woven-paper-stars-the-one-million-stars-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypoppet.com.au\/makes\/how-to-woven-paper-stars-the-one-million-stars-project\/","title":{"rendered":"How to: Woven Paper Stars – The One Million Stars Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI little while ago I had the great pleasure to meet the super talented Maryann Talia Pau<\/a>, weaver and artist. She was running a star weaving workshop as part of a little<\/del> huge community project and art installation she is working on called 1 Million Stars to End Violence<\/a>. \"Maryann
\nHere is my chat with Maryann…
\nWhat is the million stars project?<\/strong>
\n1 Million Stars to End Violence is an epic ‘Weave jam’\/project that I started last September after the violent death of local Brunswick woman Jill Meagher. It started as a personal response to the sadness and community outpouring of emotion. People from our church helped to look after a vigil that local women began on the steps of our church. I helped to collect written messages for Jill’s family but couldn’t find any words to write. I saw a quote by Dr Martin Luther King Jnr that someone had placed in the sea of flowers, that said “Returning hate for hate, only multiplies hate, adding more darkness to a night already void of stars. Only light and love can drive out the darkness.” That had a profound impact on me and so the weaver in me decided to weave stars as a symbol of light and hope. I wanted to keep weaving stars and teach as many people as I could, so that we could make hope, light and courage to end violence together.<\/em><\/p>\n

How can readers participate?<\/strong>
\nI’m inviting people to learn how to weave these 8 pointed stars and to send them in to be part of a massive display in December. Any one is welcome, women, men and children, and they can learn by attending any of the free workshops I run each month, in a different location across Melbourne, with some interstate. People can also watch my tutorial video on Youtube. My hope is that people will learn and keep passing it on by creating a Star Weave Jam with their own communities – in a local cafe, park, beach or lounge room! All you need is some plastic gift ribbon, scissors, a share plate and a tub to collect the stars in! It’s a great way to get to know people be part of an international community art project! People can stay up to date by visiting the website www.onemillionstars.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

What are you going to do with all the stars?<\/strong>
\nAll of these beautiful stars, woven across cities like Melbourne, Alice Springs, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, Rarotonga, Milwaukee, Texas & London are going to be strung together and displayed as one large installation at The Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton for The Big Design Market<\/a> Fri 6, Sat 7 & Sun 8 December 2013. I think it’s important for us to see them up this year, to have a sense of achievement, that this is what we can do together! My vision is to have them up and on display once a year till 2015 so that we can see how big it is growing. This project is teaching me that anything is possible!!<\/em><\/p>\n

Watch Maryann’s Video to learn how to make these eight pointed woven stars.<\/p>\n