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"When you love nature, nature loves you back! Head to Leigh Woods for this plant and fungi-filled foraging walk, where you’ll learn about medicinal and edible properties, queer herbal histories and how to make clay imprints from your found treasures. "
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A event on Saturday 10th August. The event starts at 14:00.
UPDATE: Key info has been sent to ticket holders in your emails ~ please check your spam folders if you can't see it, or get in touch via the contact link in my link tree (below). Main things to know: Meeting point is The Green Barn (about 5mins from Leigh Woods Car Park); bring weather and clay appropriate clothing and water; let us know if you have any questions or access requirements. <3 much love & see you soon!
We'll start off the workshop with a guided foraging walk for gathering, identifying & learning about plants & fungi lead by foraging artist Ruby Scott-Geddes (they/them). We’ll get to know some of their uses as food, medicine, craft materials, and their significance within queer ecologies and histories. We’ll see some of the ways that nature completely defies binary thinking and hetero-normativity – how queerness is natural, just as nature is queer!
After the walk we will be getting physical with Earth that these plants & fungi grow in! In this pottery workshop, we’ll be learning how to make a wall-art hanging out of clay using the nature findings to imprint as artwork. Clay is an energy rich, tactile and therapeutic material to work with, and capturing the memories of the walk and the plants we foraged is just magical! The workshop will be facilitated by Bristol-based, ceramic artist and founder of @bristol.queer.pottery and @jasmine.maier.ceramics, Jasmine. After the workshop Jasmine will take your wall hangings to her studio in Fishponds, where she will glaze and fire them for you, ready to be collected 3 weeks later.
There'll be opportunities to talk about herbalism, foraging & spending time in nature as resistance, as autonomous community care, as a way of growing resilience, imagining alternative futures (and bringing them into being!), and decomposing oppressive systems that work to disconnect us from our environment and ourselves. These workshops are about centering time to explore ourselves and our environment with playfulness, creativity, kindness & queerness! They're about celebrating and building queer community and creating spaces for ourselves that are as radical & powerful as they are nourishing & gentle :~)
Some key info:
- The walk will be a very short distance and on mainly even or paved paths. We'll stop regularly to talk about the different plants and fungi growing around us, and there'll be plenty of opportunities for resting too.
- There'll be up to 20 people & 2 facilitators. We'll be outside, with plenty of space if you need to take breaks or some more space or time to yourself.
- Tickets are pwyc from £30 (low income) & £45 (general). We've made things as affordable as possible, whilst still covering costs and working to pay facilitators a fair wage. Please select a ticket price you can comfortably afford, let us know if ticket costs are a barrier to you coming, and consider paying more for your ticket if you're in a position to do so! Thank you!
- We'll be in touch with ticket holders via email to provide some more info (e.g. meeting point, parking and a break down of the day) closer to the time! Lettuce know if you have any questions or requirements in the meantime <3
More links & contact:
RUBY (they/them): https://linktr.ee/rscottgeddes @artist.forager
JASMINE (she/her): https://linktr.ee/jasminemaier @bristol.queer.pottery @jasmine.maier.ceramics
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
We'll start off the workshop with a guided foraging walk for gathering, identifying & learning about plants & fungi lead by foraging artist Ruby Scott-Geddes (they/them). We’ll get to know some of their uses as food, medicine, craft materials, and their significance within queer ecologies and histories. We’ll see some of the ways that nature completely defies binary thinking and hetero-normativity – how queerness is natural, just as nature is queer!
After the walk we will be getting physical with Earth that these plants & fungi grow in! In this pottery workshop, we’ll be learning how to make a wall-art hanging out of clay using the nature findings to imprint as artwork. Clay is an energy rich, tactile and therapeutic material to work with, and capturing the memories of the walk and the plants we foraged is just magical! The workshop will be facilitated by Bristol-based, ceramic artist and founder of @bristol.queer.pottery and @jasmine.maier.ceramics, Jasmine. After the workshop Jasmine will take your wall hangings to her studio in Fishponds, where she will glaze and fire them for you, ready to be collected 3 weeks later.
There'll be opportunities to talk about herbalism, foraging & spending time in nature as resistance, as autonomous community care, as a way of growing resilience, imagining alternative futures (and bringing them into being!), and decomposing oppressive systems that work to disconnect us from our environment and ourselves. These workshops are about centering time to explore ourselves and our environment with playfulness, creativity, kindness & queerness! They're about celebrating and building queer community and creating spaces for ourselves that are as radical & powerful as they are nourishing & gentle :~)
Some key info:
- The walk will be a very short distance and on mainly even or paved paths. We'll stop regularly to talk about the different plants and fungi growing around us, and there'll be plenty of opportunities for resting too.
- There'll be up to 20 people & 2 facilitators. We'll be outside, with plenty of space if you need to take breaks or some more space or time to yourself.
- Tickets are pwyc from £30 (low income) & £45 (general). We've made things as affordable as possible, whilst still covering costs and working to pay facilitators a fair wage. Please select a ticket price you can comfortably afford, let us know if ticket costs are a barrier to you coming, and consider paying more for your ticket if you're in a position to do so! Thank you!
- We'll be in touch with ticket holders via email to provide some more info (e.g. meeting point, parking and a break down of the day) closer to the time! Lettuce know if you have any questions or requirements in the meantime <3
More links & contact:
RUBY (they/them): https://linktr.ee/rscottgeddes @artist.forager
JASMINE (she/her): https://linktr.ee/jasminemaier @bristol.queer.pottery @jasmine.maier.ceramics
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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