Paid Programming Tiers

EartHand Gleaners works hard to provide low barrier, affordable  and deeply impactful programming through our various skill development, artist residency and land-inquiry projects while respecting the skill holders who lead workshops and paying fair and appropriate compensation. 

Generally, you will find three different types of tickets/fees for EartHand paid programs: 

Level One/Community Patron –  this standard fee is for those participants who can afford the cost of providing the selected program. The fee covers: the artist/host fee, supports administration costs of the organization, a program coordinator and a few dollars towards the artist in residence fees for the following year.

Level Two/Volunteer Supported Placement– covers a portion of the artist/host fees, a nominal amount towards organizational administration costs and relies on volunteer administrative support. 

Level Three/Sponsored Placement – covers a portion of the artist/host fee and is supported by Community Patron tickets, other fundraising efforts and volunteer administration.

Our goal with this fee structure is to provide equitable access to EartHand programs. Therefore if a program has 9 spaces, wherever possible we offer 3 spaces in each type of fee/ticket and program costs are set to account for a balance of the different ticket types.

Please pay as much as you are able, this will allow us to get a better sense of what our overall membership can afford and aid  in the  making of budgetary decisions that keep us fiscally responsible while supporting those community members needing a financial break in order to participate.

For more information and context please read this blog post by Executive Director, Sharon Kallis.

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The Stewardship Community Connects to Our Studio Work!

EartHand’s ethos is that of a community-powered cycle of renewable local provision. A cycle that facilitates creative-making without reliance on alienated extraction and consumption. What this looks like on the ground is a cycle of community members working together: planting, gardening and land stewarding, harvesting, creative-making, composting, seed collection, planting, gardening… (you get the idea). Along the way there is skill-sharing, tea parties, burgeoning friendships and laughter. 

EartHand has a range of Studio learning programs that connect directly to working with the seasonal abundance from the gardens, and we ask our skill-seeking community members to participate in the stewardship as a part of building relationships based on reciprocity- not extraction .

EartHand’s two learning gardens, Means of Production and Trillium North are our main material resource sites. This allows us to offer the urban experience of using local materials that we grow and harvest; promoting a healthy relationship to the land and plants.

EartHand is not a school, not a store, but a community that supports each other in our ‘learning and living local’ creative efforts.

As EartHand programs grow and move forward it is important we don’t lose site of this – of the need to participate where we live and play – otherwise we begin to perpetuate the consumptive and extractive behaviour we wish to change.

 We are happy to acknowledge the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation participation in the EartHand project through their generous allocation of ecological and artistic knowledge and resources.

 We are grateful to the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people on whose traditional territory we live and work and for their generous sharing of their deep understanding of this land which has been their home since time immemorial.