FLEET: Edmonds

Intersection of Humphries Ave and Rosewood St, Burnaby

November 30, 2024 from 1-4 PM

January 18, 2025 from 1-4 PM

January 19, 2025 from 1-4 PM

Join Bianca Del Rio Kodato for Horta: Un-making/Re-making, a series of workshops that invite participants to reconnect to the significance of food in their lives by coming together to share stories through the making of bags. The bags will be created through textile manipulation; by un-doing, and then re-binding, existing food bags (rice bags, coffee bags, onion bags, lime bags, etc.) into new re-contextualized bags. Participants are encouraged to manipulate the bags using techniques from their own lives, heritages and cultures, turning them into carriers of stories (as well as memories, traditions and dreams) of both the bags’ histories and the histories of the ones who are entwining them together.

Nov 30, 2024, 1-4 PM: The workshop will focus on un-doing produce bags (such as orange bags and onion bags) and spinning them into new yarn.

Jan 18 & 19, 2025, 1-4 PM: Participants will use the yarn from bags to weave, net, sew, or knit new bags.

All sessions are free, drop-in, no registration required. You may stop in anytime during the session and can participate in any or all workshops. Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring any extra produce bags.

Bianca Del Rio Kodato is an interdisciplinary designer and artist whose work envisions reciprocal, resilient and symbiotic futures between the built and natural worlds. Her work unfolds itself in the form of place-based, playful and participatory community activations, being supported by tools/objects she develops and builds. In the past year, she has lead workshops with topics surrounding food and water sovereignty at the ServDes conference 2023 hosted in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, RSD12 Symposium: Entangled in Emergence 2023 - Vancouver Hub, and most recently in July 2024 at the Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre. Bianca graduated from Emily Carr University in 2023, majoring in Industrial Design, with a minor in Social Practice and Community Engagement.

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Image (above): I Come From Red Orange Dirt (ongoing series) by Bianca Kodato, 2024.

Image (below, left to right): photo of Bianca Kodato. Denim Pools (series of workshops exploring relationships of care through denim) by Bianca Kodato, 2022.

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