Author Event: Revered Roots by LoriAnn Bird

EVENT IS AT CAPACITY. Please sign up for the waitlist.

With Indigenous Métis herbalist LoriAnn Bird as your guide, connect with the ancestral wisdom of numerous wild edible and medicinal plants from across North America.

Revered Roots is a purposeful and powerful reference to the lessons, nourishment, healing, and history of our “plant teachers” and LoriAnn Bird will share guidance on exploring, gathering, and reclaiming these long-revered plants as food and medicine. Separated into two sections, LoriAnn first reveals her own journey to understanding and respecting our plant elders. She offers teachings and lessons about remembering our relationship to the plants around us and our responsibility to the earth that sustains us.

The second part of the book is filled with insightful illustrated plant profiles detailing the identification, uses, and Indigenous folklore of some of the continent’s most treasured ancestral plants. Included are edible and medicinal bark, berries, and buds from trees and shrubs, as well as foliage, flowers, and fronds from herbs, “weeds,” and wildflowers; some native to the continent, others introduced generations ago.

Talewind Books will have books available for purchase at the event.

This event is happening as a part of syíyaya days which is a partnership between the District of Sechelt, the shíshálh Nation, and the syíyaya Reconciliation Movement.

Registration required. Online registration available.

https://sechelt.bc.libraries.coop/event/author-event-revered-roots-by-loriann-bird/

You may also like the following events from Sechelt Public Library:

• Next Monday, 30th June, 03:00 pm, Film Screening: Ninan Auassat: We, the Children in Gibsons
• Next Wednesday, 2nd July, 09:30 am, Big Kids Messy Science in Gibsons
• Next Thursday, 3rd July, 10:30 am, SRC: Colour Your Summer! in Gibsons

Also check out other Arts events in Gibsons, Literary Art events in Gibsons.