Looking to cultivate a creative community of learners? Well, look no further! In collaboration with the Cultivate Art Commons, KFPL co-hosts this monthly book club.
Book: The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Activity: Cyanotype Prints with flowers & leaves
Facilitators: Maddi Andrews, CAC Executive Director
In The Serviceberry, author Robin Wall Kimmerer invites us to think about how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world. As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, and she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most?
For our first Learning For Liberation session, we’re inviting folks to join us for an evening of discussion surrounding abundance, reciprocity, gift-economies and other themes of the book, whilst creating cyanotype prints!
This program exists to create a welcoming space for collective learning and art-making, critical conversation, and community connection through books that explore liberation, history, justice, creativity, and social change. Together, participants will engage with diverse voices and ideas, reflect on lived experiences, and imagine more caring, equitable futures.
On the first Tuesday of each month, folks will come together to discuss the book at hand, whilst participating in a hands-on art activity.
10 copies of each book will be available. All art activity materials are provided.
Sessions are led in partnership with Cultivate Art Commons, a non-profit organization in Katarokwi/Kingston dedicated to supporting contemporary artists through equity-rooted, community-engaged artistic practice.
