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  • Thursday evenings, 7:00-8:30, Sept 24, Oct 8, 22, Nov 5, 19, Dec 3  6 sessions – $75 Max 8 participants, virtual participation book your spot to participate here Become comfortable weaving on a form, practicing twining techniques, and building skills required for weaving garden hats in 2021! Garden ornamental and invasive seasonal green-waste are the…

  • Sharon Kallis of EartHand Gleaners and Amy Walker of Makemobile enjoy making in public whenever possible. In the spirit of using public spaces as places for arts and life, we invite you to bring your own portable hand work (ie knitting, stitching, braiding, weaving, carving painting, etc.) for three physically-distant making jams in three city parks.…

  • We’re more than halfway through EartHand’s first Kootenay-based programming, the Nelson Materials Investigation Series! For three sessions now, a group of 7-8 of us, primarily located on the traditional territories of the Sinixt and Ktunaxa peoples in the West Kootenays, have gathered virtually via Zoom for a show-and-tell of backyard fibre materials, to share and…

  • ✿What Is a Digital Garden? ✿ Artist talk and Q & A with Sarah Holloway   ✮✮July 7th, 2020 7pm (PT) Get your tickets here! The language of how we describe experiences in the environment and computation are intertwined. The internet is described as water, social media as a mycelium network and navigating digital spaces…

  • Join in and help us map the garden in real time, so Sarah Holloway can create a digital map for both sites! These are free events, sponsored in part by Vancouver Park Board: Arts Culture and Engagement Dept and EartHand Gleaners Society What is a digital garden you ask? find out July 7th 7.15-8.15pm, virtual…

  • Weave a Box: From a Box! with Dawn Livera 3 step tutorial now on our youtube channel so you can make awesome lidded storage boxes with otherwise scrap cardboard. Video one: introduction and prepping materials Video two: the weaving process Video three: finishing and lids And, get your materials prepped and jump in to join…

  • On-line or in-person? Crafting together continues one way or another! If there is one thing I am learning in all if this- adaptability is the key to my emotional resilience… making plans, changing them, then letting go and changing them again- all with grace and ease is the game of the day.I still catch myself…

  • Sharon is working on a nettle garment, and hopes for your company working alongside her virtually.  When we  make for ourselves, are all those who have taught and shared with us not alongside as well? In the spirit of community labour, Sharon and Amy invite you to join them online for these mid sized groups…

  • More workshops coming up- taking old garments and making new again! May 26th- Tshirt hack time- check it out here June 2nd- pattern hacking and drafting 101- lets figure out your garment construction together- register here

  • We were super excited Sara was going to do walks with us this Spring, and when that couldn’t happen we asked Sara to embrace technology and bring the gardens to our homes. In honour of Bird Week this guest post by Sara Ross takes us on a walk (a sit-spot actually) at Trillium North Park…