Janey and Jay hosted an afternoon of activities for the kids at the Strathcona childcare centre on the pro-d day on April 29. Both these artists are really connected with the wild, and the ideas that seem to have resonated most strongly with them in this project are of how the land and waters looked…
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Weaving Wagon in the News!
A great introductory article about the Weaving Wagon in the Westender, June 2017. Thanks Amy Logan! http://www.westender.com/arts-culture/artists-weave-a-wagon-with-hyper-local-materials-1.20553425
Weaving Wagon Introduction
The Weaving Wagon will be EartHand’s pop-up studio and pick up truck, a hybrid of cutting-edge bicycle-based transport and traditional woven willow carts. Geoff Hibbard, with an engineering education and co-founder of Shift Delivery, is designing the chassis; Alastair Heseltine will be overseeing our weaving of the body; and Martin Borden will be documenting the…
Soil to Sky – one very last event…
It’s almost hard to imagine that the time is upon us, but here it comes: the very last Soil to Sky event, the Final Celebration on Saturday November 5. We’ve all learned so much from this project. It didn’t go off the way we expected, but we took the twists and turns with good grace,…
PROJECT:Weaving Our Social Fabric
Announcing a new project for the Fall of 2016 at Trillium North Park. Three local artists, Melodie Flook, David Gowman and Arlin ffrench, will be joining us at our work space at Trillium. The group projects to be undertaken include collaborative fence weaving using local plants (Festoonery), a handmade rain catchment system carved from local…
Eslhalha7kw’hiwus project complete!
Eslhalha7kw`hiwus is a Squamish word shared with us by language keeper Rebecca Duncan, who received it from her late father. It describes how our lines are all connected: to each other, the land, the plants, and our ancestors; and it expresses the intention of our project to re-establish a respectful relationship of balance between a…
Pollinator House Video
Our 2015 spring season of working for the bees with Strathcona Elementary School and Environmental Youth Alliance wonderfully documented here by Martin Borden. The Pollinator House is lovely addition to Trillium North Park, and the bees are moving in!
Update at Trillium North
Did you know… Trillium North now has a dedicated website for all happenings? Yes! one place for all of your info needs on what is going on at Trillium North, we will do our best to keep info current on both the eartHand and the Trillium North websites, but take a peak and add Trillium…
New Project: Buzz-scaping Trillium North
We are thrilled to announce the 2015 events for Trillium North: Pollinator House Which we will be making with both adults and children. Strathcona Food Security Committee will build the frame with David Gowman, and Rebeca Graham and Sharon Kallis will lead the Strathcona Elementary Students in weaving bee-friendly housing forms. Erin Udal from Environmental…
Autumn Fibre Events
We have two final free public celebration events for our 2014 fibre projects, come out to both and get a solid understanding of how cloth is made, and have a great time meeting fun people and doing something extraordinary! Sunday November 9th 1-3 pm Hastings Urban Farm as a part of the Urban Cloth Project…