Soulful dilly bag weaving workshop at Newlands

R655

Sit in sacred circle with weaver, artist and ceremony woman, René Bahloo. As you engage in deep contemplative, soulful practice, you will be guided to weave a basket with with natural fibres. This basket will become a reflection of the weave of your self, your experience and your path of learning. Weaving is a practice which engages mind, body as well as spirit, and invites the wisdom of the weave to speak through your hands and hearts, in a safe and nurturing circle space. You will also gain a very practical understanding of natural weaving fibres and how to use them to create functional and decorative objects. 

René Bahloo of weavery.com.au will be back to facilitate this intimate weaving journey with us at Mogalakwena on Thursday the 27 February 2020. Rene is back in Cape Town briefly and is only facilitating this single workshop, so if you would like learn to weave, and to tap into the knowledge and stories of this fibre artist and cultural exchange practitioner living in Australia, now’s the time!

René will share her extensive knowledge of plants and practises of traditional and contemporary basket weaving with you in this beautifully soulful meditative workshop. It is actually so much more than a workshop, it is an experience of growth and connection, of joyful expansion, to self, others and the environment, and a journey of spirit as it unfolds through the wisdom of the weave - a truly gentle and ancient practice. 

You will use plants that grow locally to create a special twist weave dilly bag which you can extend to create a medicine basket, a garlic basket or a special altar piece. 

Although the technique will be taught in a way that ensures knowledge to begin, continue and complete a piece, it is not guaranteed that your piece will be completed in the time allocated for the workshop. This will depend on each person in the group - size of piece, depth of conversation engaged in, and quickness of practise. René is always available online however, to answer any queries that might arise in the continuation of your piece, to the completion of it.

René +61 438 162 552 (whatsapp)

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Other upcoming Weavery events: 

Australian Remote Indigenous weaving adventures

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/rene-bahloo-10793355289

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