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Wild Bee-Making Bee with Charmaine Lurch

Join Charmaine Lurch from Monday August 21st to Friday August 25th, at the Haliburton Sculpture Forest to Make Bees.

Monday, August 21, 2023
Friday, August 25, 2023
Address:

Haliburton Sculpture Forest, College Drive, Haliburton, ON, Canada

From Monday August 21st to Friday August 25th artist Charmaine Lurch will be in residence in the Haliburton Sculpture Forest on the Haliburton School of Art + Design campus to work with community members to create wire sculptures of wild bees which will be installed in the Sculpture Forest.  

 

This summer we are celebrating pollinators in our forest. There are more than 400 kinds of wild bees in Ontario—a third of these bee species are reliant on forest habitat. Wild bees come in an extraordinary array of unexpected colours.


Over the winter Charmaine has been creating wire armatures for the bees. Community members are invited to join Charmaine under the big tent at the front of the College to make the legs and wings for the bees and wrap the bee structures with coloured wire– turning the wire armatures into multi-coloured wild bees. Participation is free and no experience is required. Youth ages 12 and up are welcome.

In each of the weeks that Charmaine will be in residence she will be demonstrating the various wire sculpture techniques and sharing knowledge about wild bees, their incredible solitary lives and their vital role as a pollinator of plants.


At the end of the week, we will install the bees created during the week in the Sculpture Forest.

To join the bee-making bee you can sign up on Eventbrite or just drop by.  You can come for a few hours, for a day. A couple of days or for the whole week.


For more information contact: info@haliburtonsculptureforest.ca


Times 9:00 am - 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Monday August 21 - Friday August 25.


Location:

Haliburton Sculpture Forest

Under the big tent in front of the College

297 College Drive, Haliburton ON K0M 1S0


presented in partnership with the Fleming College Haliburton School of Art + Design




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Land Acknowledgment

We would like to acknowledge that we are located on ancestral lands, the traditional territory of the Mississauga Anishinaabe covered by the Williams Treaties. This area, known to the Anishinaabe as “Gidaaki”, has been inhabited for thousands of years – as territories for hunting, fishing, gathering and growing food.


For thousands of years Indigenous people have been the stewards of this place. The intent and spirit of the treaties that form the legal basis of Canada bind us to share the land “for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows and the rivers flow”.

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To find out more about all of the extraordinary things to see and do in the Haliburton Highlands in every season click here!

Location:

297 College Drive
Haliburton, ON K0M 1S0
Tel:

(705) 457-3555

Email:

info@haliburtonsculptureforest.ca

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