Join Master Weaver Tiger Leonard Williams (Quatsino First Nation) and environmental artist Juliana Bedoya for a hands-on cuff bracelet weaving workshop. Together, they’ll guide participants in a living dialogue with red cedar and so-called “settler plants”, species often labelled invasive, to explore the intertwined stories these plants carry: kinship with the land, medicine, colonization, disruption, displacement, and resilience.
Through the tactile practice of weaving, participants will work with plants that grow together in these territories, using them as symbols of allyship, mutual care, and collaboration. The process invites reflection on personal and collective lineages, migrations, and relationships to place, while deepening appreciation for local Indigenous cultures and their ongoing presence.
This workshop is not about fixing or resolving historical tensions. It offers a space to listen to the plants we will be working with, sit with complexity and learn from it.
As immigrant and Indigenous weavers, Juliana and Leonard hold this space as an act of relational accountability, inviting participants to slow down, listen, and reweave connection with land, plants, and community.
- Date: Thursday, November 13
- Time: 6–8 pm
- Location: Comox Valley Art Gallery, 2nd Floor. 580 Duncan Avenue, Courtenay, BC
Fee:
- $50 Regular Price
- $40 (Indigenous people only) using Code: CEDAR
