Listening in Relation with Rita Kompst - workshop | Dyeing with Fungi and Plants
In this hands-on workshop we will use locally foraged and grown plants and fungi to create a 16-colour sample card with wool yarns. We’ll also learn what can be harvested in different seasons.
Location
On Campus
ECU Campus. Meet at the ECU main entrance
520 E 1st Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5T 0H2 See on Map
Contact
Barbara Adler | barbara@theonlyanimal.comOpen to Public?
Yes
Listening in Relation with Rita Kompst (Musqueam)
Workshop: Dyeing with Fungi and Plants
In this hands-on workshop we will use locally foraged and grown plants and fungi to create a 16-colour sample card with wool yarns. We’ll also learn what can be harvested in different seasons.
FREE
Beginners welcome, ages 14 and up
What to Expect
All materials will be provided, including pre-mordanted wool, mushrooms and plants.
During the first three hours, Rita will work with the group to create eight dye pots with mushroom and plant materials. These pots will yield 16 colours when working with yarn mordanted with either alum or iron. Participants will take home a 16-colour sample card. The final two hours are dedicated to dyeing a skein (17-20 meters long) in one of the colours for you to take home.
Rita Point Kompst
Rita was born and raised in Musqueam. Her late Father, Joe Becker, a former Musqueam Chief, was mainly a carver and a fisherman. Rita started cedar weaving once her Father passed as per her Cultural teachings. She experienced several personal losses over the next 7 years and continued weaving on her healing journey. Her Mentor Todd Devries encouraged her to begin teaching cedar weaving several years ago. Now she teaches cedar weaving full-time.
About Listening in Relation
The Only Animal is teaming up with artist-activist, researcher and ECU faculty member Julie Andreyev, alongside faculty and students at Emily Carr University and the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology, to explore how listening, sound-making and land-based material art practices can help foster care for more-than-human lifeworlds. You can join us in sound walks, improvisation workshops, a reading group, natural dye workshops and botanical printmaking, and more. Participating artists/facilitators include Rita Kompst, Toni-Leah C. Yake, Anju Singh, Adrian Avendaño, Lara Felsing and the Branching Songs Ensemble. Events are free and open to the public, but registration is required. If you would like to be added to a mailing list to receive updates on this program, please e-mail info@theonlyanimal.com
Listening in Relation is supported through: an Art + Design Mobilize: Creativity and Innovation for Partnered Research grant, ECU-RIO NSERC Mobilize; and The Basically Good Media Lab