Slow Social #5 - Dry Happy Hour @ Unwritten Weekend, September 22, 2024

For Slow Social #5, we’ll teach you how to create simple rope, aka ‘cordage’, from fibres you can find close to home, including fabric scraps, garden waste and leftover floofs from your hibernating craft projects. You can use cordage to create textured weavings, basketry, and yes - even *friendship bracelets*. Add your creations to our traveling textile installation, bring your own craft work, or catch up on some social coziness as we head into the dark months. We’ll provide materials and a beginner’s lesson at the start of the event.

Featuring live improvised music by DJ Paisley Evans, Elisa Thorn and James Meger. Spoken word by Tawahum.

(Line-up changed due to illness.)

Featuring live improvised music by Elisa Thorn and Gavin Youngash, with reading by Barbara Adler.

This event is PWYC/by donation. All proceeds go to support Two-Eyed Seeing: Ways of Being and Seeing, a multi-faceted Indigenous-led project by Coast Salish & Sahtu Dene artist, writer, storyteller Rosemary Georgeson and climate justice and human rights activist, performance artist and community facilitator Lara Aysal.

The Only Animal (TOA) is an interdisciplinary arts company whose mission is to bring art and artists to the heart of the climate crisis. We prioritize long-term and porous relationships with our publics and our artist collaborators, shifting what we do in response to local curiosities and needs. Our current projects explore how slow practice can sensitize relationships between people and place and set the stage for joyful climate futures.