Indigenous Led Birch Bark Basket Workshop *WAITLIST ONLY*
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REGISTRATION IS NOW FOR WAITLIST ONLY. PLEASE REGISTER YOUR INTEREST AND IF A SPACE BECOMES AVAILABLE YOU WILL BE CONTACTED.
Join award winning Master Basketry Artist Dolores Purdaby for this 4 hour workshop on the traditional and beautiful art of Birch Bark Basket making. This is an incredibly rare opportunity to learn from a local Indigenous Knowledge sharer and is free to attend due to sponsorship by Tourism Revelstoke. Spaces are limited.
Saturday July 5th | 10am - 2pm | Revelstoke Seniors Centre
Sign up today using this google form: https://forms.gle/LpxyUcD67himWV7e8
What to expect?
A master basketry artist from the Neskonlith community of the Secwepemc Nation, Delores Purdaby has practiced as a customary artist for over four decades. Her mother-in-law, Theresa Purdaby, and her mother, Christine Allen, along with other Secwepemc women, taught her the skills she continues to use today. Deloresβ vast ecological and traditional knowledge β necessary for understanding when and where to harvest and how to process and finally use the materials pulled from nature into her baskets β is passed on to the many generations of Secwepemc she has gone on to mentor.
Dolores is excited to share this knowledge with others, Indigenous or not as the skills are too important to lose and are meant to be known to be in relationship with the Land.
Birch Bark for the baskets will be previously (respectfully) harvested locally to ensure maximum time for basket making on the day but the process and protocols of harvesting will be shared in the workshop.
This incredible opportunity is offered FREE due to the generosity of Tourism Revelstoke. Support/hosting provided by the Revelstoke Indigenous Friendship Society and prizes for participants from the Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network.
Limited Spaces. Sign up today using this google form: https://forms.gle/LpxyUcD67himWV7e8
You will be contacted to confirm your place. Bring your own packed lunch and thermos for tea/coffee.
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Join award winning Master Basketry Artist Dolores Purdaby for this 4 hour workshop on the traditional and beautiful art of Birch Bark Basket making. This is an incredibly rare opportunity to learn from a local Indigenous Knowledge sharer and is free to attend due to sponsorship by Tourism Revelstoke. Spaces are limited.
Saturday July 5th | 10am - 2pm | Revelstoke Seniors Centre
Sign up today using this google form: https://forms.gle/LpxyUcD67himWV7e8
What to expect?
A master basketry artist from the Neskonlith community of the Secwepemc Nation, Delores Purdaby has practiced as a customary artist for over four decades. Her mother-in-law, Theresa Purdaby, and her mother, Christine Allen, along with other Secwepemc women, taught her the skills she continues to use today. Deloresβ vast ecological and traditional knowledge β necessary for understanding when and where to harvest and how to process and finally use the materials pulled from nature into her baskets β is passed on to the many generations of Secwepemc she has gone on to mentor.
Dolores is excited to share this knowledge with others, Indigenous or not as the skills are too important to lose and are meant to be known to be in relationship with the Land.
Birch Bark for the baskets will be previously (respectfully) harvested locally to ensure maximum time for basket making on the day but the process and protocols of harvesting will be shared in the workshop.
This incredible opportunity is offered FREE due to the generosity of Tourism Revelstoke. Support/hosting provided by the Revelstoke Indigenous Friendship Society and prizes for participants from the Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network.
Limited Spaces. Sign up today using this google form: https://forms.gle/LpxyUcD67himWV7e8
You will be contacted to confirm your place. Bring your own packed lunch and thermos for tea/coffee.
Get Tickets
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