All Videos Tagged gardening (Urgent Evoke) - Urgent Evoke 2024-04-28T23:45:41Z http://www.urgentevoke.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=gardening&rss=yes&xn_auth=no Gardening in Kissena Corridor Park - Week 3 tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-05-08:4871302:Video:143096 2010-05-08T22:57:51.503Z Paul Allison http://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/PaulAllison Week Two: Indigenous Knowledge in the Kissena Corridor Gardens tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-05-04:4871302:Video:137655 2010-05-04T00:36:02.482Z Paul Allison http://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/PaulAllison Planting our garden Planting our garden End of Week One: Creating our corner of the Kissena Corridor Gardens tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-04-24:4871302:Video:103299 2010-04-24T19:34:28.148Z Paul Allison http://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/PaulAllison Getting the soil ready for our community/school garden at the East-West School of International Studies, Flushing. Getting the soil ready for our community/school garden at the East-West School of International Studies, Flushing. Creating our corner of the Kissena Corridor Gardens tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-04-21:4871302:Video:98516 2010-04-21T03:08:07.788Z Paul Allison http://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/PaulAllison East-West School of International Studies, Flushing, NY East-West School of International Studies, Flushing, NY Indigenous Plant Diva tag:www.urgentevoke.com,2010-03-26:4871302:Video:65780 2010-03-26T17:36:13.586Z Katherine Morrison http://www.urgentevoke.com/profile/KatherineMorrison Cease Wyss, our "Indigenous Plant Diva", is a hip, urban Aboriginal single mother, video artist and community leader. She shares her traditional knowledge of plants that can be found throughout the streets and everyday spaces of Vancouver, reminding us that the medicines are all around us in our urbanized environments. Whether it's the secret curl of a fiddlehead, the gentleness of comfrey, or the blood-red streaks of frog leaf, plants carry with them millennia of wisdom, communicated through… Cease Wyss, our "Indigenous Plant Diva", is a hip, urban Aboriginal single mother, video artist and community leader. She shares her traditional knowledge of plants that can be found throughout the streets and everyday spaces of Vancouver, reminding us that the medicines are all around us in our urbanized environments. Whether it's the secret curl of a fiddlehead, the gentleness of comfrey, or the blood-red streaks of frog leaf, plants carry with them millennia of wisdom, communicated through color, texture and form. Cease Wyss has been listening to this unspoken language, and is now passing this ancient and intimate sense of connection to her own daughter, Senaqwila. The plant spirits are the Grandmothers, and they have good things to share with us to help us (re)connect to the land, if we listen.