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Women with Green Thumbs: Celebrating the Creative and Curious Gardeners of Vancouver

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Women with Green Thumbs: Celebrating the Creative and Curious Gardeners of Vancouver

Time: May 12, 2011 from 7pm to 9pm
Location: Rhizome Cafe
Street: 317 East Broadway
City/Town: Vancouver, BC
Website or Map: http://www.herstorycafe.ca
Event Neighbourhood and Type: vancouver, talk, celebration
Organized By: Lori Weidenhammer
Latest Activity: Apr 25, 2011

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Herstory Cafe and Means of Production Artist's Raw Resource Collective (MOPARRC) present:

Senior artist and accomplished gardener Catherine Shapiro will give an illustrated artist talk focussing on ways that gardening has inspired her painting, drawing, and sculpture. This will be followed by facilitated

Hosted by Lori Weidenhammer aka Madame Beespeaker, community-based performance artist and member of the MOPARRC.

Food & beverages for purchase. Come early and join us for dinner. We have the whole cafe but seating is limited.

More info: www.herstorycafe.ca and moparrc.wordpress.com

Further information:

Catherine Shapiro has been an artist and an organic gardener for forty years. As part of her art practise Catherine loves researching history, focussing on ethnobotany and family history. Her projects often span several years of digging into the archives in between digging in the soil. She has worked with a variety of materials and techniques, including making paper from plant fibres from her garden and the natural environment. She has worked with The Public Dreams Society, All Souls (Mountainview Cemetery), the Powell Street Festival, and has exhibited in many galleries in the Pacific Northwest including The Pitt Gallery, the Simon Fraser University Gallery, Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden and the Burnaby Art Gallery. Catherine grew up in the Hollywood Hills; having lived in San Francisco and the northern town of Wells, B.C. before moving to Vancouver, she has experienced gardening in a variety of climates. She was the first head gardener at City Farmer Demonstration Garden in Vancouver, with a passion for permaculture. Catherine is truly a lifelong learner and a vivacious story teller.

"Story Circles" where gardeners can socialize, inspire and share their own gardening stories.

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