The Carnival of Plants & Animals

🐙🦊🌸🦜🌼🐯🌸THE CARNIVAL OF PLANTS & ANIMALS🌸🐯🌼🦜🌸🦊🐙

The Carnival of Plants & Animals is a community project to celebrate our connections with our more-than-human friends: plants, animals, minerals and elements.

Over two months, artist Flavia Bertram will be hosting drop-in sessions, where where we’ll make beautiful banners, posters, fans and masks & most importantly make sure we move our B-O-D-I-E-S to connect to our wild imagination.

All this is leading to a Carnival parade and playful event for Beltane/May 3rd to connect into our wild ecological community.

All ages & abilities welcome! Family- and adult-friendly!

Drop-in or book in to join one of these sessions.

Cost: free, donations welcome.

🌼🐝 Make-and-Create sessions 🐝🌼

Mondays March 16, 30 & April 13, 13:00-16:00 @ The Hive Warm Space

Saturday April 18th, 11:00 - 13:00 @ The Hive Repair Cafe

🎨Make your own decorative fan, flag or mask to celebrate what you love in this world

🎨Contribute to community banners for the The Carnival of Plants & Animals

We’ll be using paper, felt, cardboard, papier-mache and paint depending on where we are in the process. And of course, there will be random dance breaks!

🌸🐙 Half Term Mini-Carnivals 🐙🌸

Friday April 10th and Saturday April 11th

10:00 - 11:30 AM

🎨April 10: Banners, posters and fans + a bit of a boogie

🎨 April 11: Masks! Masks! Masks! + a bit of a boogie

🐙🦊🌸🦜🌼🐯🌸THE CARNIVAL OF PLANTS & ANIMALS🌸🐯🌼🦜🌸🦊🐙

May 3rd, 12:30-15:00

Join for a playful community ritual event to connect into our wild ecological community and to celebrate those we share the plant with.

🎨Part One: Final Making Session, 12:30 - 13:30

Drop-in and make a mask or fan of your favourite plant, animal, rock or element.

🎨Part Two: The Carnival of Plants & Animals, 13:45 - 15:00

We’ll meet in The Hive and activate the masks we made over the past few months. Then we’ll head out into the wilds of the park for a Carnival parade and a playful Council of All Beings* to connect to our deep ecological selves.

About the Artist

Flavia Bertram a community facilitator and theatre maker with over 15 years of teaching and performing. She hosts workshops, performances and conversations, that seek to invigorate the imagination and deepen interconnection between humans and the world we inhabit. Regardless of the field she operates in, her work is grounded in a commitment to play, empowerment and a just, fair ecological transition.

www.flaviabertram.com | @flavia.bertram

*Council of All Beings was developed by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown as part of The Work That Reconnects. It is adapted for The Carnival of Plants and Animals to incorporate more play and theatre techniques.

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