Earth Day++ working with more community partners

Spring time and eco-minded community groups want to come out to play.  We had a good run of public facing events in the Spring, where we were invited to take part.  Here's a round up:

On April 29th we supported a community swap hosted by the eco clubs at Davisville PS, lending them signs + materials +  swap remains.  We are trying to encourage more people to take lead on swaps so we can have more swaps.

Earth Day (April 22) We have partnered with local food focused community group Appletree Markets many times over the years, and this Spring we participated in two events they hosted. Alex Verkade and Tanya Murdoch humanned a booth  at the Eco Market at the Toronto Botanical Gardens for Earth Day (Saturday April 22, 10-4.)  Alex is very productive with her own studio (now TerryZeeStudio) and she has been making upcycled patches, pouches and hearts from vintage quilts and other materials, so half the table was Alex goods, the other was information about Works-in-Progress and a few items made from other artists in the collective.  We talked upcycling and visited plenty of awesome folks, including a butterfly fan in costume.​

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On Saturday May 6 (10-3) Works-in-Progress had a booth and ran a craft hour at the second annual Ringing in the Spring event in June Rowlands Park, also organized by Appletree Markets- they now have weekly markets at both sites.  This was a lot of fun- met a lot of local artists at our booth, and spent an hour pounding flowers with community members.  We encouraged the makers to hang their creations on a line prepped with more bunting pieces, and then we sewed the bunting up over the afternoon and donated it to the garden folks to use when they have programming.

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and on May 7 (10-12) we had TWO events.  In the morning we played with new community partners the Humber River Pals to support the volunteers at their monthly clean up event.  We were invited to activate their monthly gathering where volunteers clean up a section of the Humber River.  Since we were already pounding, we kept going and made some more bunting which we donated to the group for future gatherings.  Lerah won a T-shirt! And in the evening we made T-shirt bags and gave away the last of the flowers to a group of Rangers ... and got a BADGE!

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