Events in the Shuswap

Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Cultural Celebration and Cedar Basket Making

Sorrento Centre 1159 Passchendaele Road, Sorrento, British Columbia, Canada

Start your spring with a weekend of Indigenous Ways of Knowing and traditional Cedar Basket Making for adults. Friday evening begins after dinner with a smudge and a story by First Nations Knowledge Keeper Bernice Jensen. Over the weekend, Bernice and her sister, Susan Oliverius will guide authentic First Nations cedar basket making while sharing […]

Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Two-eyed seeing

Sorrento Centre 1159 Passchendaele Road, Sorrento, British Columbia, Canada

Welcome to the world of natural dyeing!  Nadine McSpadden, a fibre artist from the Secwepemc Nation and Zoe McDonnell, a fiber artist and biologist will host this weekend’s dye workshops.  Participants will be introduced to the notion of Two Eyed Seeing.  This is a perspective that takes Indigenous knowledge and merges it with science.  This […]