Commonwealth Quilt. A common thread...
1,324 creative responses. Countless common threads.
Explore words, images, sounds and movement from across the Commonwealth, submitted through a creative open call.
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- 392
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- 76
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- 78
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- 4 generations of change Sunalini Mathew India Image
- 23rd Psalms Jevonte Chatham Antigua and Barbuda Audio · 2:56
- A Bangladeshi girl “আমি একজন মেয়ের কথা বলছি—” Shahreen Sneha Bangladesh Written
- A Book That Resembles All of Us. “I have always believe that: Things Fall Apart is not an Igbo book, but an African book. No African tribe can claim owne…” Stephen Adinoyi Nigeria Written
- A Canvas of 133 Threads Syeda Anika Mansur Bangladesh Image
- "A Caribbean Tapestry" Jasmine Deyal Trinidad and Tobago Image
- A Colonial Still “In Guyana’s sweltering heat, where the silty Demerara flows,” Raj Doobay Canada Written
- A Common Ingredient “Blankets, foods and lands” Shreoshee Sarder Bangladesh Written
- A Drop of Paint... “Once,” Kavya Gamage Sri Lanka Written
- A Feriwala & the Weight of Noise 01 Pintu Bisoyi India Image
- a grandmother's garden “This is the garden; humble and grand” Irene Flores Belize Written
- A Haiku to Thread “Sitting at my desk” Tara Mittra United Kingdom Written
- “A heartfelt poem reflecting my journey…” ““The Thread I Carry”” Rebecca Tuitasi-Chadwick Samoa Written
- A knot from my heart “From divinity to infinity” Jemina Rose Seychelles Written
- A lady from the north (Yar Arewa) Maryam Aliyu Nigeria Video · 1:45
- A Line That Refuses to Break/Urudodo rwanze gucika “Navukiye aho amakarita atinda gusobanura, hagati y’igihugu cy’amavuko n’icyibutso.” TWIRINGIRIMANA Eric Rwanda Written
- A Mermaid On The Mountain Words by Alliouagana Pearl Montserrat Image
- A Million Stars “A song I whisper of yesterday” mere kaleca Fiji Written
- A mother walking towards the ocean “The rain shudders to touch me,” Moksha Kochar India Written
- A Mother's Day Prayer “When she tries to lend a hand” Anjani George India Written
- A Mother's Gift “As the plane descended toward Calgary, I pressed my toes against the embroidered insoles my mother had made for me. I r…” Juhua (Manna) Liu Canada Written
- A NEW SEASON HAS BEGUN “The sun has risen” Faith Malele - Sivoinavatu Samoa Written
- A nobody “I was born without trumpets,” Juliana Paul Malawi Written
- A Path Towards Resilience Faria Tabassum Sujan Bangladesh Image
- A Poem for Commonwealth Quilt “Each Life a Patch, Each Dream a Stitch” Sekhar Banerjee India Written
- A Prayer for Peace “At this critical stage in global relations peace cannot be an impossible option, a far-fetched, implausible reality of…” Nandita De nee Chatterjee India Written
- A Quilt for the Human Mind “Where shall we find” Dr Darpan Kaur ( The Mirror Poet ) India Written
- A Quilt from Home “I see dad's surname” Harlord Ankwasa Uganda Written
- A Reflection- Taj Mahal Alecia Hanif Guyana Image
- A romantic Poem “মনে রেখো নবনীতা” ABUL KALAM AZAD AZAD Bangladesh Written
- A Slow Jazz of Yarns “A weaver’s sudden slickness slices such raw rhythm through” Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri Ghana Written
- A STITCH IN TIME “By HAIMANTI DUTTA RAY (Calcutta, INDIA)” HAIMANTI DUTTA RAY India Written
- A Story of my life “A Boy from Gambia a village called Brufut.. With a vision of leading his people from a low standard of living and depen…” Ebrima Bojang Gambia Written
- A Tale of Language “Helal Uddin Ahmed” Helal Uddin Ahmed Bangladesh Written
- A Thread “That is what ties our bonds together” Roxana Terranera Rwanda Written
- A Thread Against the Tide “Salty, unsettling, the storm lingers on her tongue. She listens to what’s left: outside, the tide, drawing breath. Insi…” Patricia Furstenberg South Africa Written
- A thread between us “"One should love all people across nations and never show partiality towards tribes," my grandmother used to say as she…” Mosa Nts'oeu Lesotho Written
- A Thread Of Hope “My thread is woven from hope, perseverance, and a belief in the power of learning.” ISHIMWE Jean Baptiste Rwanda Written
- A thread of hope Kevin Goreeba Mauritius Image
- A THREAD THAT SEWS US “Some threads cannot be seen.” Saadu Ajarat Opeyemi Nigeria Written
- “A Thread Through Time: Ahmedabad |…” Khushtar Heritage Collective India Image
- A Traditional Visual Art I've created using Adobe Illustrator David Kabulanga Solomon Islands Image
- A witness to love. “You know, I think of you sometimes.” Vivian Chukwuemeka Nigeria Written
- A Work of Heart: Championing transformative technology and digital education for women and girls Davi Ramkallawan Trinidad and Tobago Image
- A woven Malawi “I am a thread from the Warm Heart of Africa,” Lao Nsusa Malawi Written
- A-frame within a frame CHAWEZI TEMBO Zambia Image
- Abstract Alzira Muezucauala Mozambique Image
- ACCOMPONG MAROON ANCESTRAL THREAD “Accompong, Cockpit Country, Jamaica” Racquel Dunn Jamaica Written
- Across Common Lives “Sadiq learn earlier” Sharifuddin Adamu Nigeria Written
- Across Where the Heart Grows Fonder “Across where Heart Grows fonder” Kwabena Churchill-MOMC Ghana Written
- Adari in Bela “I” Prof. Rajeshwar Prasad India Written
- Advice Given “Aim high, go to school and do your best, each generation must improve on the rest. We all married young and we all achi…” Linda Ashton Barbados Written
- Africa ain't Feeling African “I'm freaking out.” Taboka Mulongoti Zambia Written
- Africa Will Rise Tumelo Simelane Eswatini Image
- African Woman “Growing up, I wanted to be a boy” Asha Taban Uganda Written
- Afterlight “As wind cleared my coast, Things became clear.” Sreerag C India Written
- Aftermath there is an afterlife “So many things happen now in this world that i don't understand the reason why .” Warren Danin Landangoye Gabon Written
- Airdance “In Ozomagala junction there is an evaporation of bustling sweats that spread suffocating smells of desperate survival.…” Chisom Nsiegbunam Nigeria Written
- Alike in ache. “For the privilege of loving you, I bear the burden of missing you” Marleen Akunassah Ghana Written
- All around Us “Just an atom” Geethanjali Bhas India Written
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About the call
The Commonwealth Foundation’s creative open call asked people across the Commonwealth to respond to a single word: Thread.
Poems, stories, images, songs and films came in from across the Commonwealth. Every work in the quilt is shown exactly as it was sent: titles, names and words as their makers wrote them.