FREE Gate Building Workshop for Women+Date – Saturday, April 5
Time – 12:30 – 3:30
Location – Whaletown
Our edges, our boundaries, our fences are important.
We get to decide where, when and how people enter our space.
And so we build gateways, portals, places where people can enter the places where we live.
This workshop is on building gates the way that we want them from local materials allowing for creativity in construction.
We will:
– learn about tools for building: circular saw, jig saw, impact drivers, measuring tape, set square.
– explore a variety of hand built wooden gates crafted by different people
– talk tips and tricks to make gates fit and swing in the ways that you want
– design and build your own gate with materials supplied and pieces of wood that you bring with you
– explore intentionality around creating openings for people and what you want that to look like.
Bring snacks and a water bottle and take home a gate.
Open to all women, two-spirit, non-binary & gender diverse people.
To prepare please collect driftwood or other attractive pieces of wood that you may want to use as structure, decoration or handles on your gate. Scraps of cedar plank or plywood for others in the group to also use would be welcome.
Facilitated by Connie Quayle – Connie has been homesteading, teaching, and making stuff for many years.
Women’s Hands Rural Skills Workshop Series for Women+ is a project of the Cortes Community Health Association Family Support Program and is funded by the Fund for Gender Equality as part of a partnership with Community Foundations of Canada and the Government of Canada and dispersed locally through the Cortes Community Foundation. The fund was created to support women, Two-Spirit and gender diverse individuals in support of a future grounded in equity, inclusion and justice.