Rebecca Chesney, I’m blue, you’re yellow (meadow, Everton Park, Liverpool), photo, 2012
- Friday, June 3, 2016
- 12:00pm – 1:00pm
- MAWA, 611 Main Street
Lori Weidenhammer will discuss female artists who have fallen madly and deeply in love with bees, and create bodies of work inspired by their favourite pollinators. These “women who run with bees” perform in-depth research, deep listening and deep observation, opening up the secret lives of bees and, in some cases, taking immediate action to improve their habitat. The current honeybee crisis and threatened populations of native bees means that the dissemination of bee-inspired art is more important than ever, providing the community new points of entrance into understanding the critical issues connecting humans to bees.
Free! All are welcome
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Lori Weidenhammer is a Vancouver-based artist originally from Cactus Lake, Saskatchewan. For nearly a decade she has been exploring the persona Madame Beespeaker, reviving the tradition of telling the bees. She also appears as The Queen Bee at schools and community events. Her collaborative media works with her partner Peter Courtemanche have been shown in Canada and abroad and she has worked in devised theatre in Canada and the UK. As an artist/educator Weidenhammer works with students of all ages on eating locally, planting for pollinators and community gardening. She is passionate about art that creates and strengthens community bonds and makes the world a better place for humans and bees. Lori has just released her first book: Women Who Run with the Bees: A DIY Guide to Saving the Bees published by Douglas and MacIntyre.