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17-25 October 2026

Life Is A Cultural Thread 2022

A story about the blends of cultural influences in the traditional and innovative craft of textile designers, weavers, entrepreneurs and activists.

Hosted by Viviana M. Calderon de la Barca at Natlab

This project is now archived and was part of DDW22

Nature
Nature
Viviana M. Calderon de la Barca
Life Is A Cultural Thread 2022 (25 min) is a story confronting aspects of current themes, in the broadest sense, in the lives of creative women from different generations and corners of the world. All in a collision of cultural tradition and innovation.

An arthouse film approaching women textile designers, weavers, enterpreneurs and activitists.

Following the growing awareness on sustainable textile design innovation, and the underrepresentation of female artists in history, the writer and director of Life Is A Cultural Thread 2022, embarks on a new journey in a subject she is so passionate about. The result is a tapestry of interviews with women artists and designers leading in the industry from and in, different corners of the globe. From textile dyeing traditions to weaving techniques or innovative approaches to art, the audience learns in this intergenerational short, how each one of them contributes like a thread, to our world’s intercultural tapestry of textile production and consumption. All, by blending influences and heritage as a solution for a more equitable, diverse, and sustainable future.
Christie van der Haak
Christie van der Haak
Niek T. Klasen
Monica Flores Moreno
Monica Flores Moreno
Viviana M. Calderon de la Barca
Dr. Nora Kravis
Dr. Nora Kravis
Niek T. Klasen
Dorozome
Dorozome

About Viviana M. Calderon de la Barca at Natlab

Viviana M. Calderon de la Barca is an independent writer, director and producer that explores sociocultural perspectives on interculturalism from different angles. Because of Viviana's interest in social phenomena, most recently, her audiovisual project Occupy Cultural Threads 2021--an intergenerational community project on alternative, but not exclusive, textile design, production and consumption--was part of Baltan Laboratories social design program in 2021.

Colofon

Writer, director and co-producer Viviana M. Calderon de la Barca
Co-producer Baltan Laboratories