Gossib Gathering is a research-oriented workshop that explores what shared care and community around parenting could look like today. This edition invites fathers, brothers; sons, uncles, friends, and allies—all people who were raised or are perceived as men—to reflect on their role in pregnancy, birth, care, and shared responsibility.

By using manual crafts—quilting and embroidery—as a meditative method, we create space for attentive conversations about parenting, emotional labor, and the social and cultural systems that shape our ideas about care and family. The workshop explores which support practices have been lost, which we can revive, and how we can develop new forms of solidarity and responsibility today.

The name “Gossib” refers to the Old English Godsibb, or “relative/spiritual neighbor.” In this workshop, we reclaim the word as a role of listening, caring, and supportive alliance. This edition, in collaboration with Hannah Kindler, focuses specifically on people who do not give birth themselves and invites reflection and practice around shared care and community.

Sanne Freijdag is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher working with textile, installation, film, and photography. Her practice opens a space where the “natural” is questioned as a human construct, examining traditions and rituals as recent formations shaped by productivity. Through embodied and material research, she explores care, interdependence, and collective memory.

Hannah Kindler is an artist whose practice explores feminist knowledge, care and embodied memory through textiles, sculpture, performance and media. Drawing on archival research and historical imagery, her work examines how power, gender and material histories are inscribed, transmitted and disrupted through bodies and objects. She lives and works in Freiburg, Germany.