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Weaving Community Milestones
From: Common Threads
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So how can this interest in getting together for a common purpose fit within a concept of celebrating life’s milestones? How do we support each other in those moments when we need our family and supportive community nearby? Find and define a common goal for creating something as a community. Have people who can lead in showing techniques, encouraging others, and bring together the group’s ideas for directing the project.
Contributors
Sharon Kallis
Sharon Kallis is a Vancouver artist who specializes in working with unwanted natural materials. Involving community in connecting traditional hand techniques with invasive species and garden waste, she creates site-specific installations that become ecological interventions. Through her work, Sharon has engaged with groups and studied plants and techniques across North America, as well as in Central America and Europe. Some of her recent projects include leading The Urban Weaver Project and Aberthau: flax=fibre+food. She brings together for collaborative projects fiber artists, park ecologists, First Nations basket weavers, city gardeners and the general community.
