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Basket Weaving Demonstration with Charlie Kennard

If you’ve ever visited the Basketry Garden and wanted to know more about the weaver behind it, now’s your chance!

   

Charlie Kennard will demonstrate weaving a straw beehive or “skep” of the type that he uses for bee-keeping in the Basketry Garden, using species of plants  found in the gardens here and traditionally used in basketry—most of them Californian natives. Stop the Livermore Pavilion to watch the skep take shape, and learn more about the process.

Date

Dec 15 2024

Time

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Questions? email info@maringarden.org or call 415-455-5260

Location

Livermore Pavilion
30 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Ross, CA 94957

Speaker

  • Charlie Kennard
    Charlie Kennard
    Charlie Kennard
    Charlie Kennard

    Charlie is a longtime basket weaver and student of California Indian and European techniques. He teaches adult workshops throughout the Bay Area, in many schools and at teacher trainings. Reed boats made in his workshops can be seen at the California Academy of Sciences, the Bay Model in Sausalito, and another is in the collection of the Oakland Museum. Charlie is active in native habitat restoration in Marin, managing several projects for Friends of Corte Madera Creek Watershed.

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