Looking to learn an authentic folk craft this fall? Join us in making straw love knots and harvest tokens from wheat and rye, traditionally crafted as gifts or blessing talismans for the home.
Guided by artist and craftsperson Bozena Hrycyna, you'll learn a variety of straw plaiting techniques and leave with a selection of small pieces you can finish independently. These pieces make perfect Christmas tree ornaments, too! We'll work with heirloom wheat and other locally grown materials prepared by Bozena. Attendees get 10% off any purchases in the shop.
Where: BAA BAAZAAR, 73 Roncesvalles Avenue in Toronto
When: Wednesday November 13th, 7-9pm
Light refreshments will be provided.
About the Instructor:
Bozena Hrycyna is director of FOLK CAMP, an organisation connecting people with the folk arts, crafts, music, and land based traditions of Eastern Europe in the Canadian context. As co-founder of the Kosa Kolektiv, Bozena has collaborated with many talented and skilled artists, musicians, and community organisations in Ontario (and across Canada) to promote the richness of Ukrainian and Eastern European cultures, and to facilitate meaningful connections for people (cross-culturally and within their own lineage).
Bozena is an amateur singer, embroiderer, weaver, pysanka maker, textile and straw craftsperson, actively learning and sharing these art forms from her Ukrainian/Ruthenian heritage. She has taken workshops and travelled extensively in pursuit of deeper understandings of these and other folkways, and apprenticed to the land, spending the last six years on a homestead near Wilno, Ontario.
