Opening Note

Through our Badan workshops, we aim to help every student, organizer, volunteer, partner, host, and our instructor, have the highest quality experience in a safe, welcoming, respectful, and collaborative environment.

We recognize hosting a workshop requires much time and effort to plan. We thank you for your care and consideration in fostering an environment where we can teach tatreez and help it thrive in our communities.

Below are some guidelines, preferences, and best practicies we’ve laid out to help our workshops run as smoothly as possible. They are not intended to restrict the planning process for any one organization but rather create an open, communicative, protected, and mutually respectful relationship between both Badan Collective and the hosting organization. Thank you in advance for your due diligence when reading. We cannot wait to collaborate with you!

Definitions

• The “instructor” in these guidelines refers to Badan Collective (Badan for short) or our Tatreez Instructor, Bayan Fares.
• A “student(s)” refers to registered participants attending and participating in Badan classes or workshops.
• An “organizer(s)” refers to the organizations, partners, collaborators, volunteers, speakers, heads of planning committees, or any person involved in the coordination, set up, photography, videography, marketing, fundraising, or tear-down of a workshop, event, or class.
• A “workshop” or “class” is the event in which the instructor gives a history lesson on Palestine, a demonstration on the mechanics of tatreez, a stitching session, and/or a speech.
• A “tatreez artist(s)” refers to fellow tatreez instructors, embroiderers, local tatreez assistants, hosts of tatreez circles, owners of online tatreez databases, and owners of tatreez social media pages. This can also refer to business owners from any field.

Workshop Guidelines for Event Organizers

1. Organizers agree to communicate event plans to the instructor before marketing begins. This includes the:

• General program layout including prayer times, meals, speeches, and other scheduled activities.
• Panelists or speakers joining the workshop along with the topic(s) intended.
• Organization(s) that may appear as collaborators in advertising materials. This must be communicated whether an organization is involved from the beginning or is included later on in the planning process.
• Fundraising that will occur during or as a result of the workshop, charities that will be fundraised on behalf of, and how funds will be raised. Fundraising through our workshops is welcomed and encouraged! However, we reserve the right to revoke our participation or cancel events that seek to fundraise through our work without communication. Once a workshop is scheduled and advertised, no additional fundraisers can be added without explicit written agreement from Badan Collective. Failure to notify may result in the cancellation of the event and the organizer or organization(s) will be responsible for covering non-refundable travel fees as well as a 10% fee of the original stipend.
• Merchandise for sale or pop-up shops that will be present during the workshop, whether items sold are for profit or donations.
• Any non-profit(s), business(es), organization(s), partner(s), or local shop(s) that will be explicity promoted during the workshop.
• Any presentation(s), promotional materials, or information of similar caliber intended to be shared during the workshop. Badan must be made aware of promotional materials ahead of the workshop taking place. Failure to communicate may result in Badan revoking participation or canceling the event.

All activities mentioned can be welcomed at our workshops. We would love to support your organization and local efforts! Our main ask is to communicate intentions during the planning process so that we are aware and can better prepare on our end.

Workshop Permissions for Event Organizers

1. Remaining or extra tatreez kits at the end of a workshop are considered Badan property. They must be returned to the instructor after the completion of the workshop, whether all registered students attend or fail to attend. The remaining kits may not be collected, kept, or passed out by organizers or students without knowledge or permission from the instructor.

2. Long-form video recordings (longer than five minutes) are not permitted to be filmed during workshops, for either private or public use.

• Short-form videos and photos are more than welcomed and encouraged!
• Professional photography and videography are also welcome.
• Posting to an organization's social media pages for the public is also welcome.

3. The independent research shared by Badan, the presentation slides, the instruction sheets included in the tatreez kits, and the curated designs shared in the kits may not and are not approved to be disseminated outside of the workshop. Redrawing, digitizing, or copying the curated designs from Badan workshops is strictly prohibited and is not approved for dissemination in any capacity without explicit written permission from the instructor.

• This does not refer to students stitching these designs in community and sharing them with family and friends.
• This refers to individual(s) copying Badan workshop materials and designs and disseminating them in large quantities, for sale or for stitching purposes, to tatreez circles or gatherings of any kind.