Deanery Days at School
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.
Category: Arts & Traditional Skills
Tree Pruning with Jim Turner, horticulturist
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.
Lots of Skills Shared at Rural Roots
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...
Rural Roots Seasonal Skill Sharing – List of Presenters
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...
What are Reskilling and Upskilling?
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.
Rural Roots Skill-Sharing Festival
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 – July 17
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...
Giant Puppets! : Design & Construction – July 14 & 24, 2014
Giant Puppets! : Design & Construction Part 1: Monday, July 14 from 9 – 4 Part 2: Thursday, July 24 from 9 – 4 We LOVE Giant Puppets! With so many different kinds of puppets and ideas out there, the...
Pit Firing Pottery Workshop- June 1 & June 22
Part 1: Sunday, June 1, 12 – 4:00 St. Andrews Community Recreation Centre (6955 Bayer’s Road, Halifax) Instructors: Basia Lukwinski, Kayla Stride Create hand-built , wheel, and mold pieces in Raku clay. Terra sigillata will be...
Bicycle Carnival Scores
The Bike Carnival was a smashing success. More than 70 people of all ages came out to enjoy what turned into a beautiful Nova Scotia early summer day, complete with an all-day grilling operation,...
