Saturday 4 April

As part of the public program at Warehouse Market London edition, WAREHOUSE, TEXTUS & TANVEER AHMED invite you to:
An Evening of Readings, Film and Conversation with CHRISTINE CHECINSKA, JESS COLE and NADA KOREISH

6-8 PM

DR CHRISTINE CHECINSKA will read a mix of poetry and prose, from Bell Hooks to John O’Donohue, interwoven with her own reflections. She will explore textiles as soft power, slow making, and cultivating community and care in a world facing ecological collapse and growing sectarianism.

JESS COLE will read from her book RETAIL THERAPY, a darkly funny meditation on consumerism, survival, and self-worth in an era of economic decline. @w0rms.w0rld

NADA KOREISH will introduce A MEETING OF CULTURES: FASHIONING NORTH AFRICA, an exhibition she co-curated for Kent State University Museum, reading her chapter PERCEPTION from the exhibition’s catalogue. @ksumuseum 

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The public program at Warehouse Market London edition is curated and hosted by fashion academic TANVEER AHMED and fashion and textile poet LOTTIE MCCRINDELL, the event invites reflection on themes of the marketplace from community and crafting, to retail and consumer culture.


Free to attend! Hope to see you there

Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, NW5 2RX

Dr CHRISTINE CHECINSKA is an artist, designer, curator and storyteller. She is the V&A’s Senior Curator of Africa and Diaspora Textiles and Fashion, and Lead Curator of the international touring exhibition Africa Fashion. She was a member of the Costume Institute at the Met’s curatorial Advisory Committee for the 2025 show Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at Yale Centre for British Art and a Research Associate at VIAD, University of Johannesburg.


Christine exhibited work in the group show The Missing Thread, Somerset House, London, 2023-2024. She was a co-curator of Makers Eye: Stories of Craft, Crafts Council Gallery, London, 2021. Her publications include ‘Material Practices of Caribbean Artists Throughout the Diaspora’, in Crafted Kinship, Marlene Barnett (ed.), 2024. In 2016, she delivered the TedxTalk Disobedient Dress: Fashion as Everyday Activism.


An advocate of creativity through art, design and craft, Christine serves on the boards of the British Textile Biennial and the Textile Society of America.

JESS COLE is a writer based in south-east London. She has written for Vogue, The New York Times, The Guardian et. al. and is a regular contributor to MARFA journal. Her creative practice spans dramaturgy, performance pieces, and prose. She is part of The Royal Court Theatre’s writers programme cohort, and her debut drama, Retail Therapy has been published by WORMS. @w0rms.w0rld

NADA KOREISH is a lecturer across multiple disciplines with over fifteen years of experience in the design industry and a doctoral scholar, focusing on decoloniality and fashion in North Africa. She is the founder of the Fashion Liberation Collective North Africa, a disruptor, and a mother. Always striving to reclaim our history. Our own table. Doing decoloniality through practice, the collective, and in everything she teaches.

Warehouse Market London edition is made with support of Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industries Fund NL.