Municipality
Kingborough
Funding Status
Awaiting Support
Achievement Plans
I wish to engage my Coastcare group members in weed and native plant identification through the creative process of basket-making. I would like to hold a number of workshops which would give adults and children the opportunity to get creative with weeds, and which would encourage people to harvest invasive weeds, such as banana passionfruit, willow, blackberry, watsonia, New Zealand flax, red hot poker, etc, for the purpose of making baskets and sculptural objects.
Methods
I would offer a series of basket-making workshops, for adults and for children, that would each focus on a style of basket, a basket-making technique, a weed or weeds. The workshops would possibly take place in the Kingston Beach Community Hall arts space. Ideally a range of different basket-makers from Southern Tasmania would run them. It may be possible to run some smaller workshops in situ in a weed collection site, such as near an infestation of banana passionfruit or willow. A sculpture trail at the back of Tyndall Beach may be a fun way to display the work.
Natural Values
Protection of native bushland in coastal areas.
Amount
$1k - $5k
