Weaving is Healing Brisbane August 2024

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

A deeply nourishing workshop, ceremony and healing experience. String bag making with natural plant fibres.

Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens

Workshops

"Weaving is healing" workshops are much more than skill-building fibre art classes. They are nurturing, trauma-informed, spaces where we heal together through the power of the weave, facilitated by weaver, healer and circle holder René Bahloo.

This session is a string bag technique basketmaking workshop. It is perfect for beginners as well as advanced weavers, and will include tuitoion on making basic cordage as well as how to use it to create a small yet flexible bag/ basket.Please note that this is not an Indigenous workshop or a technique indigenous to Australia, but a workshop that embraces creativity, ceremony as well as community to promote healing processes in an organic and soulful manner.This is a opportunity to join René Bahloo from Weavery, to sit and weave together in circle. It's much more than a skill-building, tuition-based workshop; it is a space where wisdom is shared, experienced and breathed together as the workshop unfolds itself, wrapped with the fibre of life as well as the fibre of nature, and deep human connection.10.30am till 3.30 pm. $120 pp.The workshop will be facilitated through means of a ceremonial space where you will be nurtured and held safely in a circle of like-minded beings, sharing and breathing and creating together. There is a deep focus on mindfulness and self-honour as we sit in the creative energy of this ancient practice, developing our muscles of consciousness and integrity.This is an opportunity to experience the art of basket weaving as a profoundly contemplative practice. It is a space of sharing, creating, being and breathing, conducted through ceremony and celebration of life. Using natural materials from the land, you will learn to weave individual strands of fibre together to form a whole creation, while recognising and acknowledging the mirrors and metaphors that bind us together with nature and each other.Like a weave within a weave, this has the power of revealing a way of being that is nurturing, growthful, enlightening and honouring of the energy of creation. Together we will weave baskets that hold in their fibres all of the stories we share, flowing in symphony with the songs of nature as they unfold around and within us.All materials will be provided.Special pandanus fibre will be available to buy on the day, if needed for future weaving projects or expansion of a current one, but will not be used in these workshops.Please bring a chair, cushion or mat to sit on, and something savoury to share for lunch.Tickets can be booked online or by emailing to organise a direct deposit / cash. (direct deposit bypasses the eventbrite fee).weaverywork@gmail.com(0438)162552

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