• Community Rewilding in the City w/ Sharon Kallis

  • Aug 14 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
  • Podcast

Community Rewilding in the City w/ Sharon Kallis

  • Summary

  • In this episode I’m talking shop with my friend and colleague Sharon Kallis. Sharon facilitates a community organization similar to Rewild Portland in Vancouver BC called Earthand Gleaners Society. She is an award winning artist who focuses on fiber arts through a locavore lens, by growing, foraging, and gleaning raw materials and processing them into fiber and weaving them into finished products. She is known for her community art installations wherein she connects people to their place through creative collective works of art, often with garden waste, invasive species, or other locally available materials. Her book, Common Threads: weaving community through collaborative eco-art, was published by New Society Publishers in 2014 and is used in many post secondary programs as a model for creative engagement in shared green spaces. I met Sharon through our shared passion for using invasive species for arts projects. As fellow community organizers within an urban rewilding context, Sharon and I often converse to share ideas, commiserate over similar challenges that we face, and celebrate our successes. In the following conversation you’ll get a bit of all three of those as we discuss the ins and outs, and triumphs and failures, of running community rewilding organizations in the city.

    Notes:
    Sharon Kallis Instagram
    https://www.instagram.com/sharonkallis/

    Earthand Gleaners Society
    https://earthand.com/

    Common Threads
    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

    Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
    https://bookshop.org/a/24844/97815713...

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