Sacred Threads Camp & Social
In response to the NL wildfires, hurricane Fiona, and Snowmaggedon, Sacred Threads Camp is a multi day series of workshops, socials, and discussions that immerse individuals in art, storytelling, and nature, to inspire creative practices for community preparedness during climate emergencies.
Nature
Nature is used as a way to connect with the land, and is used in art activities, interactive workshops, and resource mapping techniques.
Indigeneity
Indigenous knowledge is interwoven into each workshop, ensuring that a two eyed seeing approach is applied to emergency preparedness and stewardship.
Culture
Culture is used as a way to create a dynamic and unified discussion that supports open, caring, and respectful outcomes.
Storytelling
Storytelling is used to connect lived experiences and include diverse approaches to workshop goals and outcomes
Past Events, Partners, and Keynote Speakers
The Power of Native Plants
By: Jude Benoit
Join Sacred Threads with Jude Benoit for a guided walk at the Geo Centre, exploring the benefits and risks of Newfoundland and Labrador’s native plants. Through a Two-Eyed Seeing approach, Jude will weave together traditional knowledge and scientific insight, highlighting how changes in these plants reflect shifting climates, while also sharing their edible and medicinal uses. This walk is for learning and conversation only and should not be taken as medical advice or a substitute for professional care.
The Art of Photography
& Natural Print
By: Daniel Griffin
This workshop will teach campers the basics of photography and help participants see and understand the spaces they move through in creative ways. Campers will make chlorophyll prints and create new digital images that speak to them in some way. By then sharing these different kinds of images with each other, whether using a metal/plastic sensor or the leaf of a maple tree, we'll discuss how composed images not only expose features of the changing environments we're part of, but also our own subterranean interests, impulses and passions
A Special Thanks to:
St. John's Mi'kmaw Women's Circle, Climate Collective NL, Sierra Club Canada Foundation, Fridays for Future St. John's, Shanta Bee, Memorial University, and:
