Community & Culture
Chat and Patch: Periods In Your Language Launch Event!
Join us at the Osmani Centre on 8th March 2026 for the launch of Chat and Patch, a community project and interactive quilt where South Asian women share how they talk about “periods” in their culture and language.
Taking place on International Women’s Day and during Ramadan, the evening will begin with a screening of our documentary film, followed by an opportunity to interact with the collaborative quilt, where each panel holds unique stories capturing participants' personal experiences.
Content note: the film includes open conversations about menstruation and lived experiences.
This event is open to all genders, cultures and religions and offers a welcoming space for reflection, dialogue, and shared understanding. Children will need to be accompanied with an adult.
🧃 * Light refreshments will be available for all, and Dinner/Iftar will be provided for those who purchase a dinner ticket (£5). Please note that this will be served at 6pm in line with those observing Ramadan. This space has a prayer room and an ablution area.
🍛 Dinner/ Iftar Menu (Halal):
All meals include rice, vegetable samosa, salad and sauce.
Sides:
* Gluten-free meals are not suitable for those with coeliac disease.
Please indicate your dietary preference (non-veg/gluten-free, vegetarian or vegan) when purchasing the Dinner/Iftar ticket.
If you have questions regarding meals or dietary requirements, please email us at thericeboxstudio@gmail.com. The catering is provided by King of BBQ.
The Chat and Patch: Periods In Your Language project (2025-2026) is a period education campaign aiming to break down stigma surrounding menstruation, particularly in religious and cultural contexts, by creating space for intergenerational and intercultural dialogue.
With a specific focus on South Asian communities in the UK, we invited both young people and their parents to explore how cultural narratives around menstruation have been inherited and how they can be redefined.
We delivered two core workshops, one in London and one in Sheffield, titled “Periods in Your Language”. Each 1.5–2 hour session brought together 16 participants to reflect on how periods were spoken about in their families, languages, and cultures. Through group discussions and typography-based design exercises, each participant created a quilt square visualising the word “period” (or its euphemisms) in their language, alongside an audio recording explaining its context, pronunciation, and cultural history.
Following the workshops, we produced a short documentary film “Chat and Patch: How do you say ‘periods’ in your language? ” that captured the process, featuring behind-the-scenes footage, interviews, and soundbites from participants and collaborators. The film served as both a creative output and a reflective tool for advocacy and education.
The final artwork of this project is a collaboratively stitched, interactive quilt bringing together the individual words by our participants. Each panel was wired with Bare Conductive Touch Board technology, allowing viewers to touch the fabric and hear the associated audio—bringing language, sound, and memory together in a tactile, immersive experience.
You can read more about the project here: https://redcloudproject.uk/chat-and-patch/
Participants from Sheffield ↑ and London ↓ workshop!
