Last Sunday at the Britannia Library, Maggie Winston & I worked our way through the 4th Coyote Comforts Sewing Circle, in which we built comforters 5-7. Judging from the pile of patches left, we have another 4 or 5 more blankets to assemble before the project will be completed.
We don't have a destination for the completed blankets yet, but we are planning that they will go to a shelter or housing program in Vancouver. The project is built on the habits of the coyote and about how coyote has become uncomfortably urbanized. Thus, coyote's blankets will eventually given to those whose journeys have had difficulties in finding habitat.
Meanwhile, I am reading trickster Makes the World by Lewis Hyde. Maggie & I have also exchanged texts from Green Grass Running Water by Thomas King. The coyote is a teacher and trouble maker who is leading the two of us around town this year.
Maggie is also busy preparing for the Dusty Flower Pot Cabaret's The Listening Jar that will get started later this week. It will be a fantastic assembling of work-shopped puppets and dance and story. The tale is about the collective loss and recovery of something vital...
I will miss it because~~ I am Alberta bound...
From Feb 26 - March 29 I will be at the Banff Centre for the 'Liminal Screen' Residency at the new media institute. The project that I will be working on there is Garden Gnomad. GG is in the progress of becoming a mobile documentation machine that will attend local sites of urban agriculture. Follow the website for updates and opportunities for involvement. It is one part of an ambitious project to occupy the Means of Production community garden with artists in residence. I am participating with Sharon Kallis and Lori Weidenhammer in this project. Follow the website for MOPARRC events. It is a project that relies on public participation. you are invited!
Also in Calgary, Alberta
- I will be present for a screening of Flowers For Joyce (that S8 movie that I made for Kriss Boggild's exhibition, "Real Women Artists Don't Do Flowers") at the $100 Film Festival on March 6 @ 7pm, Plaza Theatre, Calgary. Flowers For Joyce is about guerilla gardening in a traffic roundabout during the civic strike in 2007.
- I will also be preparing for an appearance of Comforter Art-Action at the Glenbow Museum and the Canada Social Forum in late May. This installation of Comforter Art-Action will focus, visually, on the accumulation of social wealth and how that gets represented for the public.
Does a pile of blankets signify wealth for you?
hi lois! thanks for the update on all your many activities! have a stupendous time in BANFF! and Celebrate your achievements!!!
hugs
gail
Posted by: Gail Whitter | February 24, 2009 at 02:45 PM