Category: Arts & Traditional Skills
This is a packed day of skill sharing workshops, demonstrations, great conversations, and delicious food on the beautiful Eastern Shore. Sessions range from wood carving with folk artist Barry Colpitts, and tool sharpening with...
Celebrate the sparkly wonders of the Perseid Meteor Shower and ocean phosphorescence in Ship Harbour. Sealight Skylight is our annual festival of astronomy and phosphoresence. There are two evenings of fun for the family,...
Everyone loves maple syrup, so it’s no surprise that our Maple Tree Tapping Workshop was such a success that we had to add on a second session! Participants took to the snowy woods with...
On March 14th, The Deanery Project came to Duncan MacMillan School, where ten of our Resource Team members taught interactive workshops to students in grades 7-9.
Learn about care and pruning of fruit trees and how to bring wild apple trees back into production with horticulturist, Jim Turner. If you enjoyed last year’s popular pruning workshop, then come on back for this year’s advanced class.
Last Saturday was one of the biggest events of the year at the Deanery Project: we hosted Rural Roots, a skill-sharing festival in which close to 100 people participated in sharing traditional rural skills...
We are still tweaking the schedule a bit, but it is coming together, and we just can’t wait to share all the exciting presenters with you. Here is the tentative schedule. If you’re hoping to...
You may have heard of “reskilling,” “upskilling” or “skill-sharing” lately, particularly from folks in the Transition Town movement. In the corporate world, reskilling means improving the collective skill set of your team.
Have you ever wanted to learn about low impact forest management? Spinning yarn? Food preservation? Natural building? Or other traditional rural skills?
Open House and Artist Talk with Alan Syliboy & friends Thursday July 17, 2-4 p.m. Four First Nations artists, Frannie Francis, Courtney Leonard, Charles Doucette and Alan Syliboy are part of an artist in...