Arts in the Garden
Date: Saturday April 6, 9AM – 3PM
Place: The UBC Orchard Garden, behind the Macmillan Land and Food Systems building at Main Mall & Agronomy Road <theorchardgarden.blogspot.ca>
Price: sliding scale $5-10 to cover lunch
Come celebrate spring and the arts in the Orchard Garden in this spectacular workshop day! All welcome! RSVP on Eventbrite <artsintheorchardgarden.eventbrite.com>
Opening ceremony & welcome to unceded Musqueam territory by Elder Larry Grant
Participating artists:
Sharon Kallis & Brian Jones, Urban Weavers project: weaving invasive plants and traditional British wheat weaving <sharonkallis.com>
Mind of a Snail: “compost-modernist” duo, teaching the artistry of making shadow plays with garden materials & obsolete overhead projectors <mindofasnail.org>
Shadows, sundials, ancient calendars and time: a workshop about awareness of the shadows we carry with us with astrophysicist-artist Ben Pfeiffer <http://physicsandthefeminine.blogspot.ca/>
Tiddley Cove Morris Dancers & Musicians: dancing the plants awake in the ancient English folk tradition <tiddleycovemorris.net>
Orkestar Slivovica: irresistible Balkan Roma brass festival music featuring super-star trumpeter Demiran Cerimovic <orkestarslivovica.org>
Seedfolks: a readers’ theatre adaptation of Paul Fleischman’s novel by SFU student teachers supporting the Orchard Garden
Lunch and snacks provided, including dishes made straight from the garden!