Trees are a part of our everyday urban lives but they are so often overlooked or unconsidered. Caring for Trees will bring participants into dialogue with the trees of their everyday by asking how we can care for them not just as background objects but as active agents that shape environments, both their own and those of creatures around them, including humans.

The workshop will involve making or drawing mind maps, sharing stories and creative note taking.

We will consider and share:

what trees mean to us already
what care is
what caring for trees in the city might look like
how urban trees care for us and other creatures
what actions we can take to reciprocate care for trees from the practical to the poetic

***Please bring along pens and paper to your session. You are invited to sit somewhere with a nice table, good internet, and view of a tree you love.

Brigitta Summers is a current Master of Fine Arts student at Sydney College of the Arts. She is researching what it might mean to begin to ‘think with’ trees through art, particularly socially engaged art and printmaking, as a means of transforming her own relationship with the environment. Previously she has completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Art School, Sydney, and a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Oxford, UK

The event is a part of the public program for a concurrent exhibition called Being Here. It engages the arts to provoke meaningful dialogue around diverse issues of climate change. More information can be found on https://www.tributaryprojects.....

Your support is essential for us. There is no other income for the organiser and organisation other than the ticket income. 25% of ticket sales goes to the organsation and 75% goes to the organiser and contributors. It is only for covering minimum costs and keeping Tributary Projects (volunteer-run organisation) alive. Please cancel your tickets 24 hours in advance if you can not make it anymore.

Tributary Projects is supported by Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres.

Banner image: courtesy of the artist