Sarah Corbett, award-winning activist, Ashoka Fellow, author and founder of the global Craftivist Collective became Greenbelt’s first Craftivist in Residence at the 2025 Festival.
I was asked to document Sarah’s residency and sensitively capture her work to challenges traditional ideas of activism as loud and confrontational, as well as what constitutes a campaign ‘win’. Her gentler, more empathetic approach has brought some amazing results.
Sarah founded the Craftivist Collective in 2009 after demand from people around the world who wanted to join in her unique approach to craftivism (craft + activism). With over a decade of honing her unique ‘Gentle Protest’ methodology, combining neuroscience, positive psychology, and campaign strategy woven into beautiful handmade objects as catalysts for change.
If we want our world to be beautiful, kind and just then shouldn’t our activism be too? Sarah Corbett will explain how craft can help us make our world more beautiful, kind and just, one stitch at a time….
