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Sculptures in the Garden!
On a cool Kambarang morning, preparations began for our celebratory community day where we would finally reveal our woven animal sculptures in the Cowaramup Community Garden. We invited Wardandi Elder Vivian Brockman-Webb and custodian Mitchella Hutchins, to help celebrate our year of creativity where we explored our connection to our natural environment. For the previous…
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Little Bird Sculptures
What an incredible creative year this has been, how did we get to workshop number 18?! It was another beautiful sunny Saturday in the community garden and we were meeting to create small bird sculptures. We had an excited group of kids and parents join us under the gazebo to explore baskets filled with colourful…
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King’s Skink, Scales & Tails
Rain rain, go away, come again another day… It was a wet Kambarang morning for our 16th Weaving Stories of Boodja workshop at the Cowaramup Community Garden. Luckily the children and families came prepared for wet weather and so did we! We are getting to the pointy end of our workshops and have started construction…
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Creating the Masked Owl
It was a couple of weeks ago now that we launched into the creation of our final sculptures for the Cowaramup Community Garden. We had an idea to bring the garden to life by creating a collection of animals to live within the garden space. The first animal on our list was the creation of…
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Wildflower & Orchid Discovery
It was sunny and warm! So sunny that we all wore our sun hats to take a leisurely stroll with a dozen or so super duper excited kids to discover what wildflowers were growing along the Wadandi Track and to search for elusive orchids. Joining us for this workshop were two local wildflower and orchid…
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Clay Impressions & Masked Owls
We gathered an excited group of children and families in the pavilion for workshop number 13, Clay Impressions & Masked Owls. We knew it was going to be a messy one, so thankfully we had set up our clay working space in the outside undercover area to allow for the splats of clay that were inevitable… …and…
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Djilba Nest Weaving
We gathered in the warmth of the Pavilion for workshop number 12, outside it was a grey and cold Djilba day. Djilba is the Noongar season in August and September, when the days are clearer but still cold. Animals are nesting and having their young. Today’s activity was bird nest making using circular weaving. When…
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Native Planting
Djilba is here and rainy days are still the norm, but luckily the rain stopped for a couple of hours, enough time to allow us to enjoy our ‘Native Planting’ session last week. After enjoying a short break over the school holidays, it was wonderful to see so many beautiful, familiar and new smiling faces joining…
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Shape & Screen Printing
Makuru, the season with the coldest and wettest conditions… was living up to its Noongar name. The wind and rain made us all glad to be indoors again for our 10th Weaving Stories of Boodja workshop, Exploring Shape & Screen Printing. The children excitedly entered the room to gaze upon the colourful, textured, lichen-like prints…
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Exploring Textures in Nature
It is always so wonderful to watch what little creatives make with a blank piece of paper and some colourful liquid acrylic paints. We always knew it was going to be a messy one, but also a lot of creative fun!! In this last session we were looking at ‘Textures In Nature’, identifying how something feels, whether…
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