July 17 & 18, 2021 10am-3pm
Join us for a workshop series creating community through art, ecology, and storytelling. Each day, artists will guide participants through projects using natural materials while sharing stories and reflecting on the ecology/history of the land.
July 17: Ocean debris and natural weaving workshop with Jennifer MacLatchy & Storytelling with Andrew Jackson Obol
July 18: Raw clay workshop with Lux Habrich & land-based knowledge with Reclaiming our Roots
~All ages are welcome!
~Suggested $15 donation for celebratory vegetarian/vegan lunch and snack breaks. Please pay on site when signing in, or send e-transfer to:
deaneryfinancials@gmail.com~Pre-registration is *required* and will be limited to 15 participants each day. Look for a welcome letter to confirm your participation.
~Current COVID protocols and physical distancing will apply
~Picnic lunch will be provided (please list dietary restrictions below)
~Stay for a hike or a swim!
The Deanery Project
751 W Ship Harbour Rd, Lake Charlotte, NS B0J 1Y0
Follow us on Instagram @deaneryproject or visit our FB event page.
Tel. (902) 845-1888
Contact:
sadiebills@nscad.caArtist Bios:
Jennifer MacLatchy (she/her or they/them) is of mixed European settler descent, living in unceded Mi’kma’ki. She is an artist, a kayak guide and instructor, and an Interdisciplinary PhD candidate at Dalhousie University. Their research and art practice focus on enacting an ethics of care in the Anthropocene as a move toward decolonization by engaging with invasive species, sites of destruction and waste, with a special interest in marine debris. She works with futility and hope through small acts of great caring toward insignificant things as an effort at enacting environmental justice beyond normative modes of kinship.
Andrew Jackson Obol is a Ugandan illustrator now living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, studying in the Masters of Art in Art Education program at NSCAD University. Andrew is a freelance illustrator, storyteller and a published children’s book artist. Andrew’s Afrocentric and otherwise interventionist work serves to celebrate, uplift, honour and restore self-esteem to Black/African undermined narratives. Andrew’s pedagogical aspiration is to teach both young and old minds to speak through art. When he is not making art, he is spending time with family and friends.
Lux Habrich is a multidisciplinary visual artist, arts facilitator and support worker practicing in K’jipuktuk (Halifax) following a BFA focused in ceramics and textiles from NSCAD University in 2015. She is drawn to the immense healing embedded in tactile processes and the intimate storytelling potential in craft as a means of accessing and sharing unspoken legacies and vulnerable narratives of resistance. Committed to expressing marginalized experiences, developing inclusive creative platforms, and reimagining cultural futures – Lux externalizes intense internal grievances, to open up collective issues and qualities of larger community struggle to allow for mutual moments of compassion and care.
Reclaiming our Roots, started by James Doucette and Chenise Hache, is committed to "(Re)connecting Indigenous and Non-Indigenous youth with meaningful land based knowledge rooted in Mi’kmaw values." You can read more about the work they do at
https://www.reclaimingourroots.ca 