Indigenous cultural weaving weekend with traditional weavers from Arnhem Land

René Bahloo is a qualified installation artist, facilitator and project coordinator, with a special interest in thepractice and philosophy of basket weaving, using natural plant fibres. She shares her knowledgethrough weaving circles and facilitates grassroots journeys to remote Indigenous Australian andAfrican communities, for deep connection to land, culture, healing and traditional weaving. Renéalso collaborates with Indigenous weaving elders to create large scale pieces and experiences of intercultural connection through weaving. She has presentedat a number of conferences and been involved as a lead artist in Floating Land Environmental Artevent in Noosa, Australia, and has made sculptural works for festivals and competitions. Rene’spassions stem from her experience of Australian Indigenous culture, leading to doctoral studiesbased on Indigenous culture, women’s business, creativity and weaving journeys to wisdom. Hergoal is for us all to weave our world into a better place, to weave ourselves in healing andwellbeing, to weave our environment with passion and purpose.

René Bahloo

Two tickets have just become available - please contact me via email - weaverywork@gmail.com
 
This is a special opportunity to share a weekend of with traditional weavers from Arnhem Land as they journey to the Sunshine Coast in Australia. These special weavers travel once a year to Weavery HQ, where Rene Bahloo hosts them as part of her family, to share their culture, hearts, stories and traditional weaving practices with the wider community. They will share knowledge on fibre preparation, natural dyes and weaving techniques in this weekend. This is so much more than a weaving workshop for sharing and learning techniqes, it is an opportunity for healing through the telling of stories, sharing song, learning language and culture from a remote community in the Indigenous Australian bush. It is a nurturing and safe space to ask questions, relax, have fun and immerse yourself in a new energy as you create your own basketling or earrings with naturally dyed pandanus fibre straight from the homelands.
 
It is anticipated (preferred) that participants will attend for the whole weekend, though there are limited spaces for drop-in attendance of a single day. 
 
Friday 2pm-5pm - pandanus fibre stripping and splitting and dyeing 
Saturday 10.30am - 3.30pm - traditional weaving - (please bring your contribution to a shared lunch) 
Sunday 10.30am - 3.30pm - traditional weaving continued - (please bring your contribution to a shared lunch)
All materials included.
 
Price pp early bird till 1 July 2019 - $350 entire weekend.
 
Friday single - $150
Saturday single - $185
Sunday single - $185
(Tickets for Thursday 12th weave still available) - $80 mininum donation
(Online tickets for Thursday 12th weave also still available <A HREF="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/indigenous-weaving-cultural-exchange-opportunity-1-tickets-64971690074" TARGET="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/indigenous-weaving-cultural-exchange-opportunity-1-tickets-64971690074</A>).

Weavery Headquarters

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