We will create a basket from local fibre Piccabeen Palm inflorescence . (Fibre is provided on the day)

The workshop will be facilitated through means of a ceremonial space where you will be nurtured and held safely in a circle of like-minded beings, sharing and breathing and creating together. Beginners celebrated. Trauma informed, but please let me know by private communication if you would like your circumstances to be known, so you can be gently and considerately held.

This is an opportunity to experience the ancient art of basket weaving as a deeply mindful and contemplative practice. It is a space of sharing, creating, being and breathing, conducted through ceremony and celebration of life. Using natural materials from the land, you will learn to weave individual strands of fibre together to form a whole creation, while recognising and acknowledging the mirrors and metaphors that bind us together with nature and each other. Like a weave within a weave, this has the power of revealing a way of being that is nurturing, growthful, enlightening and honouring of the energy of creation. Together we will weave baskets that hold in their fibres all of the stories we share, flowing in symphony with the songs of nature as they unfold around and within us.

Please bring food to share, and a chair, blanket or cushion to sit on.

Pandanus fibre and DIY kits will be available to buy on the day, it is a revered fibre from the indigenous homelands of Arnhem Land (NT), dyed with natural pigments, harvested and prepared on land imbued with the stories and deeds of the ancestral beings. This fibre is ideal for external weaving projects, but is not necessary for this workshop.

$110 pp – concession available by application.

Tickets can be booked online or by emailing or messaging me to organise a direct deposit / cash (no-fee option).

René

weaverywork@gmail.com

0438162552

Please park at the top of the block and walk down, please no wheels on the neighbour’s grass verge.