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New Life for Old Shoes is underway at @all_thingy Sol Skelton is cobbling as creative play today 10-2 and tomorrow 10-noon. Bring to the Mt Erskine trailhead your old shoes that would otherwise be thrown out, and return from your hike to find them transformed.

New Life for Old Shoes Sol Skelton Saturday, August 30, 10am-2pm Sunday, August 31, 19am-noon allthingy, at Mount Erskine Juniper trailhead Salt Spring Island Reimagining cobbling as creative play, Sol Skelton offers the Salt Spring community an opportunity to have footwear transformed at the allthingy roadside platform. Drop off shoes that you no longer wear and would otherwise be discarded at allthingy, located next to the Mount Erskine Juniper trailhead, on Saturday and Sunday, August 30-31. Return from your hike to find altered shoes, imaginative shoe-like objects, and other products of the process.  Sol will borrow his recent experience as a cobbling apprentice, in combination with his creative practice as an artist, to make these transformations. He is a recent graduate of the University of British Columbia, in Cognitive Systems and Visual Arts. allthingy is a multi-purpose roadside production and presentation platform operated by artists Germaine Koh and Ian Verchere, and their supportive neighbours. https://allthingy.ca Instagram @all_thingy

Passing by allthingy • Bulgarian Rocket by Daniel Laskarin

Posted @withregram • @hemlock_micro_studio With the rains today, Blackhall, the barn, came into its own as a group production space, with a plein-air-à-l’intérieur session with @monica.tap and @melpaints and @all_thingy regulars and neighbours and tea and cookies and convivial chat.

“Plein air” session is still on today 11-2 with @monica.tap and @melpaints but you can stay dry inside! Park at the road and come down the drive to the black barn.

Join us at the allthingy roadside platform on Saturday 16 Nov for a plein air session with Toronto-based painter Monica Tap and local friends including @melpaints . UPDATE: MOVED INDOORS, SAME TIME, BOTTOM OF THE DRIVEWAY IN BARN. @monica.tap has recently been considering the act of painting as a form of activism and community resistance in the fight to save Ontario Place, a public park, from becoming destroyed for a private spa. Date/time: Saturday 16 November, 11-2 Location: Starting at @all_thingy roadside platform, 270 Trustees Trail, Saltspring Island, by the Mt. Erskine Juniper trailhead Cost: Free. Bring your own materials or use provided drawing/painting materials

We’re still on for today’s adventure-writing workshop and author talk with @meaghanhackinen , we’re just moving indoors just beyond @all_thingy

Saturday at @all_thingy and @hemlock_micro_studio Ultra-endurance cyclist and author Meaghan Hackinen These events will move indoors if there is a chance of rain 11:00 adventure writing workshop 12:30 author talk and book signing. Copies of Shifting Gears will be available 270 Trustees Trail, at Mt Erskine Juniper trailhead

November activities at @hemlock_micro_studio and @all_thingy Saturday 9 Nov Ultra endurance cyclist and author Meaghan Hackinen joins us for a two-part presentation: 11:00 adventure-writing workshop 12:30 author talk and book signing @meaghanhackinen holds several Fastest Known Times and has won multiple ultra-long-distance bikepacking races such as the 2024 Tour Divide and most recently the @arhighcountryrace . Her most recent book, Shifting Gears, shares her experiences from the road and the cultural aspects of this extreme sport. Saturday 16 Nov, 11:00-2:00 Painter Monica Tap will guide a hands-on plein air session while sharing about painting as a form of activism and community resistance in the fight to save the public Ontario Place park from becoming a private spa. @ontarioplace4all @monica.tap Meet at the @all_thingy roadside platform (moving indoors in case of rain) by 270 Trustees Trail, at Mt Erskine Juniper trailhead, Saltspring Island / CUÁN. These activities are free.

I am very grateful for the opportunity we had as a family to stay at the @hemlock_micro_studio and the Lululiving spaces created by artist @germkoh that are part of her Home Made Home initiative. Based in the Southern Gulf Islands in traditional territories of Coast Salish peoples including the Quw’utsun, Stz’uminus and W̱SÁNEĆ nations, these two micro dwellings are now in service as sites for artist residencies focused especially on land-based research and sustainability issues. As part of my residency, my focus was to learn from Scotch broom and explore the possibilities that this plant offers as a textile by harvesting, cooking, stripping, pounding, carding, spinning and weaving it. Thinking about the journey of this plant to better understand not only the undesirable impacts of this species that makes her an “invasive” in this bioregion, but also the material, cultural and spiritual possibilities of this “immigrant” plant. As immigrants to this territory too, stewardship and repair are for us as a family a way to reciprocate while we learn how to be in right relation to this generous place that we love and call home. As part of the community engagement component of this residency, I offered a Nettle for Textiles workshop at the @all_thingy . This workshop invited people to explore different harvesting and fibre processing methods and how to spin and ply nettle fibre into yarn using green unretted and also previously retted stalks. The @all_thingy is a multi-purpose roadside production and presentation platform that references the ancient democratic assembly of Iceland. It is a place available for community use and production, expanding the possible forms of produce one might find on a regular farmstand. Thank you, @germkoh for being a great host, and to the wonderful community of Saltspring Island for joining the workshop. We are also grateful for the many gifts we received during our time there, including witnessing the aurora borealis for the first time! #dignifythevilified #rightrelations #decolonizetheland #landback #rematriatetheland #stewardship #scotchbroom #nettlesfortextiles #broomfortextiles #ginestra #retamo #invasiveplants #invasivespecies

Juliana Bedoya @julianabedoya is in residence at @hemlock_micro_studio , experimenting with extracting fibres from Scotch broom, an invasive species that troubles this part of the world. Juliana is leading a workshop tomorrow, Sat 12 Oct, 1-5 at allthingy, on processing nettles into fibre. Nettle is an indigenous plant friend, so we’ll learn protocols for using them sustainably. @all_thingy is a roadside production/presentation platform at the Mt Erskine Juniper trailhead on Saltspring Island, operated by artists @germkoh and Ian Verchere and our neighbours.

This Saturday afternoon! Join environmental artist Juliana Bedoya for a nettle processing workshop on Saturday afternoon, 12 October, beginning at the allthingy roadside platform on Saltspring Island. ● Date/time: Saturday 12 October, 1-5 pm ● Location: by the Mount Erskine Juniper trailhead, near 270 Trustees Trail ● Cost: Free, and appreciated if you message @all_thingy to let us know you’re coming With Juliana, we will explore the lessons and gifts nettles have to offer as food, medicine, dye, and mainly as an ancient textile. We will also discuss when, where, how to harvest, and how to process green or retted stalks for fibre. We will cover the different stages and techniques from harvesting to spun yarn. All materials will be provided, but please bring gardening gloves and wear long sleeves and pants. In this workshop we will: ● Be in relationship with nettles to harvest them for their fibre, colour, food, medicine and more ● Learn the anatomy of the plant, when to harvest, seed saving and transplanting to create new patches ● Explore different harvesting and fibre processing methods ● Learn how to spin and ply nettle fibre into yarn using unretted/green and also previously retted stalks. @julianabedoya is a community-engaged environmental artist who supports individuals and community groups through skill sharing, including ethically harvesting and processing raw plant materials for art-making and environmental art practice. Respectfully using ancestral skills and traditional knowledge that cross cultures, and mainly working with garden trims or the so-called “invasive plants,” her work through @plants_are_teachers aims to support local ecological restoration that fosters native ecology while cultivating reciprocal relationships with the land and people. @plantsareteachers