God's Eye Workshop with Artisan Bozena Hrycyna
Learn to weave or plait a square weave known as a “God’s eye”, with natural golden wheat and rye. This craft harkens from ancient times and can be found in most places where grain growing (and straw) was and is a key component of people’s lives. These woven talismans have been found in remote villages from Scotland to Mexico, and in Ukraine and Poland, and probably many more places!
In this workshop you’ll get the chance to learn the basic principles of the craft and create your own delicate piece to hang in your home.
Experience the golden light and sacred geometry as you work with the simple gifts of wheat and rye straw, linen thread, and beeswax. All materials will be provided, and some grown by the instructor Bozena Hrycyna in her garden in the Madawaska Valley!
Sunday, November 26th, 2 to 4 pm
Cost: $55 materials included
Ages: 12+ and adults
In this workshop you’ll get the chance to learn the basic principles of the craft and create your own delicate piece to hang in your home.
Experience the golden light and sacred geometry as you work with the simple gifts of wheat and rye straw, linen thread, and beeswax. All materials will be provided, and some grown by the instructor Bozena Hrycyna in her garden in the Madawaska Valley!
Sunday, November 26th, 2 to 4 pm
Cost: $55 materials included
Ages: 12+ and adults
Bozena Hrycyna is director of FOLK CAMP, an organisation connecting people with the folk arts, crafts, music, and land based traditions of Eastern Europe in the Canadian context. As co-founder of the Kosa Kolektiv, Bozena has collaborated with many talented and skilled artists, musicians, and community organisations in Ontario (and across Canada) to promote the richness of Ukrainian and Eastern European cultures, and to facilitate meaningful connections for people (cross-culturally and within their own lineage). Bozena is an amateur singer, embroiderer, weaver, pysanka maker, textile and straw craftsperson, actively learning and sharing these artforms from her Ukrainian/Ruthenian heritage. She has taken workshops and travelled extensively in pursuit of deeper understandings of these and other folkways, and apprenticed to the land, spending the last six years on a homestead near Wilno, Ontario.
