January 29th – The King’s Lamp (Scottish Traveller Story)
February 19th – The Clever Daughter (Scottish Story Collected In Nova Scotia)
March 5th – Ivan and the Tsar’s Dream (Russian Story)
April 23rd – The Two Brothers (Part I) (German Story Collected by the Brother’s Grimm)
May 14th – The Two Brothers (Part II)
*EVENT BRITE LINK HERE TO REGISTER, PAY AT DOOR
These afternoons, held in a cozy yurt in Duncan, will be two parted. In the first part, you will be engaged in the process of basket making, weaving together real baskets, by hand with real plants. Don’t worry if you have no skill. You will learn.
The second part of the afternoons will be hearing and exploring the troubles and tributaries, travails and triumphs of community through the medium of an old, European folk tale.
About The Money Raised: 50% of the money raised during these afternoons together will go to support the work of Kakisimo Iskwew, an indigenous, cultural activist in Alberta who is rebuilding her home after she lost it to a fire in the Spring of 2022.
About The Baskets Made: The baskets will be given away for gifts for the Quw’utsun Elders as part of the 3rd Q’ushin’tul Ancestors Walk, June 29th to July 2nd,2023
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Many of us live in a time and place with so little of the basket of community left to carry us and to give us a place to thrash about in.
Maybe you’ve seen it in the broader culture around you and certainly on social media – the divisiveness, the polarization, the meanness and the piling on. And this is amongst ‘the good guys’. It’s easy to lose hope that we’ll ever get anywhere
Ignoring it doesn’t work.
But many have begun to wonder if the call outs and cancellings, the shamings and shunnings work any better in the end. Much of it feels ‘off’ somehow but there’s a fear of voicing this lest we are next.
These gathering offers little hope, few solutions, no easy-fixes and a likelihood of a deepening into the cultural poverties of our times. You won’t learn how to hold a healing circle or the ‘four steps to holding someone accountable’ but you might learn a great deal about why those things happen so seldom despite many of us yearning for them so badly. Very few ‘how to’s’ but plenty of wonderings on ‘how come?’
