BB’s Bootleg Cap Crafting
Have you ever wanted to make a cool cap by hand?
One that you can give to your best friend, or your mum or anyone really – if you think they’re cool and they deserve a hand-crafted piece of headwear, that is.
Spend an afternoon learning a bit about sewing in a super relaxed environment with some other people who also want to make cool caps for people they think are cool too.
At the end of the day, you’ll have created something that will fit onto a human head and probably even stay there when it gets windy!
This workshop is facilitated by artist Bruno Booth and is inspired by Feline Good, his sculptural exhibition of cats hiding in plain sight at Joondalup Library for the duration of Joondalup Festival.
Sessions & Times
Sunday, 16 March
2:00pm - 5:00pm
Extra things to know
Bruno Booth has used a wheelchair for most of his life, interrupted by a short and unsuccessful career as an amateur stilt walker when he used prosthetic legs as a child. In his memory, these leather and metal devices would not have been out of place on the set of some dystopian, apocalyptic epic – not in a cool and attractive Fury Road sort of way, more like the zombies in the original Walking Dead.
Having a disability has been a constant background hum throughout Bruno’s life. Kind of like a social tinnitus – you know it’s there, but you try not to talk about it. It was only when he started to call himself an artist, without cringing too much, that he began to engage critically with what it meant to be categorised as disabled.
Bruno’s recent solo exhibitions include High fantasy, low expectations at Sweet Pea (2024), Dead Ends and Detours Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, WA (2023), Body Shots Goolugatup/Heathcote, WA (2019), Push it, push it (real good) Firstdraft, NSW (2019). Bruno has also presented major public participatory projects for the Fremantle Biennale (TIGHTNESS x TOUGHNESS, 2021) and Testing Grounds (Hostile Infrastructure, 2019).
In 2022, he was a finalist in the John Stringer Art Prize and a Facilitating Artist for Performing Lines Kolyang Artist Hub. In 2023, Bruno worked alongside Lilly Blue at the Art Gallery of Western Australia on Exquisite Bodies, a new commission for the AGWA’s Gallery 09 space.
This workshop takes place inside Joondalup Library. Follow the signs or ask a friendly librarian to show you the way.
For more information about Joondalup Library, see Plan Your Festival.
In this workshop, you’ll handmake a nifty little bootleg cap like the one worn by one of the cool cats of Feline Good. Will it be the most practical hat you’ve ever worn? Probably not. But will it be fun making it? You betcha!
This project is made possible through the Regional Exhibition Touring Boost with funding managed by Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries and from the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development and delivered by ART ON THE MOVE.
Image credit: Bruno Booth, Jam Jam, 2021. Courtesy the artist.
Program details
16 March 2025
Free (Registration required)
All ages
