Mark your calendars for April 17th-19th. Starting with a dance at Mahon Hall hosted by the Dance Temple Collective, the Plenty project kick off at 9am on Saturday morning. A weekend of community building, workshops, children’s activities, food, music, yoga, clothing swap and much more.
The launch of the Plenty Project will happen in the heart of Ganges at the Salt Spring Island Wellness Centre (Link to Fabebook Event). This building was mostly vacant and ignored for the last few years. Over the last year much has been created and invested in this hub for the Wellness Industry on Salt Spring Island. Now lets love the land that the building rests on.
The land in front of this building needs some organic Salt Spring community love and this launch is the first of what promises to be a full season of regenerative and celebratory community projects hosted at different farms around the island. This first event will showcase permaculture in an urban setting, inspiration in a context familiar to many of our visitors.
Workshops will be based around building raised bed gardens, planting fruit and nut trees in urban landscape, Integration of Hugelkultur beds,
A warm lunch will be served both days. We still need some ingrediants and a couple inspired chefs to help us prepare so check the Inventory/Exchange and see where you can help
There is no cost to this event and we have set the intention to not use currency except where needed to see the projects successful completion.
All the materials and plants for this project are coming from our farms and community as we look to regenerate from a place that utilizes what we already have. Please check out the Inventory/Exchange to see where you can help.
Weekend Schedule
Friday, April 17th (at Mahon Hall)
- Join us at 6pm for a very special Dance Temple where we unveil and celebrate the Plenty Project’s season of activities. Potluck at 6pm, unveiling at 7 – dancing at 8~ and capped off with a community music jam! Mahon Hall, $15, proceeds go to fund Plenty Project initiatives.
- Bring your gently used clothing to be used in a Clothing Swap on Saturday.
9am – 4pm – Saturday & Sunday April 18&19th (at the Wellness Centre)
- 9:00 – Yoga Awakening
- 10:00- 4:00 Workshop based Community Building (raised beds, paths, hugelkultur, herb spiral, tree planting, rainwater catchment system installation, etc).
- Ongoing family activities, workshops, yoga, snacks in studio and at United Church Meadow
- A warm lunch and refreshments will be served both days.
- Sunday 1-3pm check out Play Temple in the Yoga Studio – improv theater and expressive games
- Sunday 3-5pm – Clothing Swap