Presented in partnership with Neighbour 2 Neighbour
Colour of Pomegranates with Abedar Kamgari
You are invited to join Abedar Kamgari to eat pomegranates and share stories. Every part of the fruit is useful. After eating the seeds, we will make natural colour from the pomegranate skins. Can you guess what colour pomegranates create?
Colour is all around us! In West Asia, artisans used local plants to make vibrant colours for weaving carpets and textiles. We will learn to extract natural dye from pomegranates to colour fabric. We will consider how plants carry stories: about the land, its people, and their histories.
Everyone is welcome! Please wear comfortable clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty.
This program is aimed at Families, adults, kids 12+. Participation is free. All materials will be provided to participants.
To register for this program contact Embers Carroza by email or phone at ecarroza@n2ncentre.com or 905-547-1334 x 304. You can also register in person at the N2N Community Good Centre at the above address.
Abedar Kamgari is an artist and curator living in Hamilton. She makes art about migration, displacement, land and borders. She uses her body to communicate layered ideas through performance art. Other materials she regularly explores include natural dyes, ceramics, and video.
WAHC wishes to acknowledge the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Hamilton, the Province of Ontario, CUPE National, the Canada Council for the Arts, Canada’s Building Trades Unions, OPSEU/SEFPO and Teamsters Local Union 879 for their support of our exhibitions and ancillary programs.
For more information, please contact Sylvia Nickerson, Programming and Exhibitions Specialist, at (905) 522-3003 ex. 29 or sylvia@wahc-museum.ca.
