Healing Arts Scotland Week – the Cancer Tapestry will be on display

On Wednesday there is another chance to watch the film A Good Thing to Do. This is a documentary telling the story behind the Cancer Tapestry created by Andrew Crummy, MBE.

Mr Crummy was the designer of The Great Tapestry of Scotland and, when faced with a cancer diagnosis, he dealt with it in the only way he knew. He drew his reactions and these drawings were then used to create the Cancer Tapestry. Panels from the tapestry will be on display.

Film maker Jon Gill then filmed the story with Andrew and the stitchers who crafted the work, along with the medical team who treated him. The film was supported by Macmillan Cancer Support.

Go to St John’s Episcopal Church, Princes Street, on Wednesday. There the panels which have already been completed and those which are in progress will be on display. The aim is to create a tapestry showing 1,000 stories of cancer.

During Covid stitcher Heather Swinson completed the first panel, which was presented to the Scottish Health Secretary Jeanne Freeman to put in the final stitch.

More details on the Healing Arts Scotland website of other events in and around Edinburgh.