Sofia Jain-Schlaepfer
Pine Needle Baskets & Storytelling
When: 1-5 pm, Oct 20th
Where: Low, 20 min from Wakefield
Suggested Donation: $35- 60
Please Register so we have material for you!
email Sofia.jain.schlaepfer@gmail.com
exact location given upon registration
Bring: Something to sit on, and something to share for potluck
Weaving in community makes happy hands and happy hearts!
Join Us To:
- Learn how to weave a pine-needle basket
- Deepen in relationship with Pine Tree
- Hear, share and weave stories
As we shape pine needles into baskets, we can also allow our hearts to be shaped by the plants, our community, by stories and by our work. As our baskets grow wider, our hearts can also spiral larger becoming even more able to hold.
The Facilitators
Sofia Jain-Schlaepfer
Sofia has been collaborating with plants in her artistic practice, for 6 years, in the form of baskets, plant dyes and natural art material. Also coming through in her work is her apprenticeship to wild plants and the practice of wild tending, which aims to interact with wild plants in a way that promotes the health of individuals and ecosystem.
Sofia has followed a winding path through academic science, her own artistic practice, deep nature connection immersion, primitive/ancestral skills and many forms of soul-work.
Louise Profiet-LeBlanc
Tse Itsoh: Beaver woman. Better known as Louise Profeit-LeBlanc, enjoys living in Wakefield, a very beautiful community with so many artists who are wonderful loving & talented people.
Louise moved to the hills in 2002 from the Yukon to work as a director for the Indigenous Arts Office at Canada Council for the Arts. That was was over a decade ago and although this is home base now, her work takes her back home to the land of the Nacho N’yak Dän First Nation where she developed her appreciation of the great variety of artistic practices of her people the Northern Tutchone of North East Yukon including Traditional Storytelling which she has mastered over the last 45 years.
Louise loves working with people to learn how to utilize material from the natural world, to make things as her ancestors did, each generation passing along their knowledge to the younger generation.
And like her ancestors she knows that when the people worked together, they shared stories!! She looks forward to weaving stories into the pine needle healing basketry course.
