to register interest in any of the workshops, please enter your details on the contact page...they'll be passed on to the relevant organisers

W I N T E R W O R K S

an international bush textiles symposium is planned for the (southern) winter of 2009


 Workshops open for general enrolment in 2008 include

'Embellyish' Textile Fibre Forum, September 21-27, Geelong, Victoria contact Janet de Boer

Three day experimental Eco colour workshop at Mandya, near Bangalore in India; October 2008, contact Marion Gorr 

Two-and-a-half day r(eco)fashion workshop in Canberra on long weekend in June...contact Bonnie Begg

India Flint taught at Kapiti Summer School in Aotearoa (New Zealand) earlier this year (2008)...midsummer magic was made as the plants in the district were simply bursting with colour and vitality. To see some of the results from the week-long workshop visit the Kapiti samples page or visit the Summer School  blog. 

  

The fabulous summer school intensive at Kapiti - a beautiful region some 30 minutes north of Wellington, New Zealand – will be running again in 2009.

Although decisions regarding many of the courses haven’t been made as yet, it has been confirmed that India will again be leading a workshop in Botanical Alchemy, the art and science of applying eco-colours from plants to cloth. The Kapiti region is rich with all sorts of flora for dyes (including lots of eucalypts) and summer is the perfect time for making intense colour.

The campus – Kapiti Whitireia, a division of the Whitireia Community Polytechnic - is located on the road to the Lindale Tourism Complex (home of delicious Kapiti ice-cream), just north of Paraparaumu.

Classes will run from 9am – 4.30pm daily. We are planning a day trip to Kapiti Island. Throughout the week there will also be other shorter field trips to harvest weeds and windfalls as well as water from the rivers and the sea.

please make initial enquiries through the contact page and your details will be forwarded on to the organisers.