Tag: Locally Made
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Collaborative Land Care For 2024, EartHand is putting our Artist in Residency program on hold and investing our time and resources into learning about different types of collaborative land care modalities. Currently, our two learning gardens are run by volunteer labour for both garden work and program coordination, including connecting with artists for materials access…
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Program Now Full! Read on to be added to the waitlist in case of registration shifts. Want to make a commitment to yourself ( and your closet) while creating a locally grown garment and growing your community? This program takes a leap from our extended Blue Nettle program of 2023, having learned the great value…
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We are thrilled to be sharing our first report in from Keiko Lee-Hem, our new community facilitator for the Nelson area: “It has been my pleasure and honour to have joined the EartHand community as a facilitator! This winter I led Plant & Light Play where a group of us meet every few weeks to make…
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It feels so good to gather in person again! We have some outdoor open studio sessions planned, as well as community events that you will find us at over the summer months, as we share skills and methods for processing both nettle, flax for linen and wool fleece for spun lines that will be dyed…
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A Slow Clothing Collaboration Amy Walker of Makemobile joins Sharon Kallis, plus invited friends, colleagues and passers-by for Stitch and Strategize. Check out this page for more information about this project. Conversation and Clothing Fridays Dec 6, 13 & 20 9am-12noon Roundhouse Community Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews Friday Dec 27 11am-2pm Trillium Park , SW corner of Malkin and Thornton…
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Last week the Summer Heat Youth group began working with artist Alex Ruiz Ramirez to draft the mural design for the shipping containers that form the north wall of the Children’s Garden on the Strathcona Campus. The shipping containers hold the emergency supplies for the School and Community Centre, so even though they sit side…
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On the warm Saturday afternoon of June 22 we met outside the Strathcona Community Centre at 601 Keefer St and our keen group of over a dozen participants strolled east past MacLean Park and south along Hawks, admiring trees and flowers, observing the landscape and considering the time and events that have passed since it…
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Turning straw into gold is a magic process full of archaic terminology….If you want to learn more, check out Raven Ranson’s new book Homegrown Linen: transforming flaxseed into fibre The QuickStart Guide… Grow some flax — seed in the spring as early as the ground can be worked to reduce the need for water; or…
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Big studio sale Wednesday May 22 at Trillium Park North, 600 National Ave, Vancouver. 6-9 pm 20% of the proceeds will be donated to the EarthHand Gleaners Society to replace their stolen tools and keep their stewardship program thriving.CASH ONLY TOOLS Nancy’s Knit Knacks Andean Plying Tool – $30.00Video of how it’s used to make…
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Part of my vision for #TreasuringStrathcona has been to have a diverse team of artists, people who are all fierce in overlapping ways — fiercely intellectual, fiercely protective, fiercely inuitive, fiercely activist. With Anna Heywood-Jones and Jennifer Brant, their fierceness is under cover of ‘mild-mannered’. They’re thoughtful and attentive and don’t really draw too much…
EartHand Gleaners Society 