Name: What Artists Bring to the Table: Elisa Rathje @ Oaklands Community Association - Oct 06, 2019
Start: 2019-10-06T13:30:00-07:00
End: 2019-10-06T16:00:00-07:00
Location: Oaklands Community Association

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What Artists Bring to the Table: Elisa Rathje:

Join artist and garden farmer Elisa Rathje for apple-pressing on a century-old c...

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Agricultural / Culinary Culinary Event

Sun. October 6th 2019 + Add to Calendar

Oaklands Community Association (All Ages)

1:30pm - 4:00pm

Free

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Art Gallery Of Greater Victoria

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Join artist and garden farmer Elisa Rathje for apple-pressing on a century-old cider press using apples harvested from Appleturnover, her 1½ acre 1895 Salt Spring apple orchard turned food forest and micro-silvopasture. For the workshop, bring along a half-pint mason jar to collect fresh apple juice and come chat about the possibilities of home-scale wild fermentation. During the discussion, Rathje will explore ways in which participants can start to transition to simple living and “radical home & local economies” in an era of ecological crisis and energy descent.
The workshop is free, but registration is required as attendance is limited. If Eventbrite is not an accessible way of registration for you, please phone Regan Shrumm at 250-384-4171 x 220, or email at [email protected] to register.
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Running from July to November, What Artists Bring to the Table is a food series exploring the artistic practices of cultivating and cooking food. The series central theme is how food is both a political act, as through eating we are supporting different systems, and a cultural act, which can both reaffirm one’s own identity, but also assist us to see other’s worldviews. Each event will feature two components: a hands-on workshop, where participants will work with the artist to make a food product, and a discussion, where participants will have a larger conversation about food while sampling the food from the workshop.
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Oaklands Community Centre is on a ground-level floor, with no stairs throughout the building. There are four single-stall gender-neutral bathrooms, two of which are wheelchair accessible and one offering a baby change table. The Centre offers ample free street parking and is on the #4 bus route, with the closest stop being at Hillside and Gosworth. Bus tickets are available.

The Oaklands Community Centre sits on the unceded and traditional territory of the Lkwungen-speaking peoples, today known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations, and WSÁNEĆ Nation.
Visual description of image: A table full of clear glass containers, boxes of apples, and a sliced lemon sits in a dry, grassy field. Underneath the table are two more wooden boxes of apples. To the left of the table is an iron apple press.