Take a break from your regular Monday afternoon next week to learn how to make your own portable plant press! Some supplies will be provided, but if you have some cardboard, scissors, and/or rubber bands handy, please bring them! All are welcome!
Bernadette Johnson, our BRC expert of pressing and encasing beautiful pieces of nature into resin works of art (remember her jewelry from the Huts Art Auction? If not, photos attached!) has been collaborating with the BotZoo Wellness Initiative to present TWO upcoming workshops!
This plant pressing workshop is part 1 - you'll leave this workshop with your own DIY press and knowledge to go out and (responsibly) pick up and dry some pieces of the Spring season.
THEN, for part 2, you can bring those dried pieces to a resin casting workshop during our annual Wellness Symposium on March 22nd (more details coming soon) to turn them into a lovely trinket, piece of jewelry, or abstract resin art piece (whatever your heart desires!).
Hope to see you on Monday! Save the date for our Wellness Symposium: Friday March 22nd, 12pm-4:15pm. There will be a free lunch, a plenary talk, a yoga hour, and the aforementioned resin casting workshop!
Botany and Zoology Wellness Initiative wellness@biodiversity.ubc.ca