Lantern Making Workshop - Ivy Basket Lantern

Join Free the Fern and the Everett Crowley Park Committee and Joe Boyd - experience ivy weaver - for a ivy basket lantern making workshop. These lanterns will be used to display at Light Up the Night in Champlain Heights festival on Sunday 15th Dec. We would love for lantern makers to carry their homemade lanterns in the procession during this event!

In this workshop, we will work with invasive English ivy, which is an accessible and forgiving material abundantly available in our region. Invasive species disrupt ecosystems and contribute to habitat loss for our native species. Removing and using invasive species is advantageous for both creativity and biodiversity! All materials and tools will be included.

About the facilitator:
Joe Boyd is a long time East Van resident who has been active in stewardship in natural but disturbed areas locally: Everett Crowley Park, Champlain Heights, Still Creek watershed. His stewardship has led him to explore ways of weaving invasive and non-invasive plants into objects of various shapes and sizes and usefulness, and of teaching others about invasives and weaving. He has worked primarily with (invasive English) ivy, willow and cedar. Ivy in particular is satisfying to weed and weave into useful objects and lanterns.

This workshop is recommended for only 14 years +, if you are looking for a family and child friendly workshop, we will also be offering a globe balloon lantern workshop at 10am on Sunday 8th Dec. We request that you only sign up for either workshop so we can provide lantern making opportunities to as many of the community as possible!

Please pre-register on Meetup.com

Meeting location: Champlain Heights Community Centre
Meeting time: 1pm

If you are no longer able to make it, please let us know so we can make the space available for someone else.

If you have any questions, contact [email protected] or [email protected] .

This event is funded by Parks People and Neighborhood Small Grants.

The Everett Crowley Park Committee and Free the Fern Stewardship Society humbly acknowledge that we work and live on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Peoples.