Winter Garden Light @ Waimarama Community Gardens

Sunday 4th July, 6pm at the Gardens or meet at Central School at 5pm for the Bike Rave to the Gardens

The Waimarama Community Gardens are hosting a mid-Winter community get together to coincide with Matariki and featuring music and singing from the Nelson Voice Collective. The gardens will be lit with lights from the Collective and Community Art Works, including the origami star lanterns that have been created over the past few weeks. We'll have a pot of soup to warm you up and a pot luck BBQ (bring something down to throw on it if you can). A koha would be appreciated.
Wrap up warm with sensible footwear (it might get muddy). There are some hazards so please supervise children.
The best way to get to the gardens is by bike, and it's going to be a fun! A group will be meeting at Central School and cycling slowly up the Brook to the Gardens with bicycles lit, music playing and breaking into the occasional song thanks to The Voice Collective.
Please RSVP here https://www.voicecollective.org/event-details/bike-rave-to-waimarama-gardens
If you can't cycle, there is limited parking at the Mountain Bike Hub and Tantragee Rd. and Brook St. (please don't park at the gardens).

Winter Garden Light - Workshop #2

Wednesday 16th June, 6pm @ Community Art Works (81 Achilles Ave.)

Book Tickets: www.eventfinda.co.nz/2021/winter-garden-light-workshop-2/nelson

Thank you to everybody that attended our first workshop - we're off to a great start!

Our second workshop will be next week and is for those that missed out on the first one and anybody that came to the first one and needs more help or would just like to continue working together. If you've mastered it you're very welcome to come along and help others.

Winter Garden Light is a project for the community by the community. The project will initially feed into two events; the Victory Matariki celebrations on 2nd July and a gathering at the Waimarama Community Gardens on the 4th July.
The project is about the power of community and the importance of bringing people together. It will also shine a light on just a few of the local community groups but in particular the Waimarama Community Gardens.

The project comprises a series of origami stars created from basic sonobes (modules), the building blocks of modular origami structures. When the stars are brought together, a small computer built into each star will communicate with other nearby stars and then through a series of LED lights, bring them to life.

The workshop is led by Paul Lowry, a local expert in modular origami, a member of the Light Nelson Collective and Trustee of the Waimarama Community Gardens Trust. More workshops will be added depending on numbers. You will be taught the technique of folding the sonobes and using them to create the stars. No previous experience is necessary (either origami or electronics) but as numbers and components are very limited so we do ask that if register that you commit to finishing a lantern (you can work individually but we recommend working as a group). You will require persistence and time (Paul can create one in about 2 hours but it is likely to be 2-3 times that if you haven't created one before, but you will have plenty of time before the events). 

Please make sure you book tickets here www.eventfinda.co.nz/2021/winter-garden-light-workshop-2/nelson

In July we will run workshops that will explain how to program the micro-controllers used in the lantern and how you can use it in your own projects in the future.

We suggest a minimum koha of $15 for each lantern to help cover the cost of materials (you will own the lantern, including the micro-controller, wiring and LEDs), but please donate what you can (obviously if you can donate more that would be great; it will help cover the cost for those that can't as well as any additional costs of the project). A small battery USB 'power bank' will be needed to power each lantern. If you don't have have one we can provide one (either to purchased or loan). Please note that everybody working on this project is donating their time (and a lot of time has already gone into the project). We also couldn't do it without the support of Community Art Works, a local charity organization who are hosting the workshops (a donation to CAW would therefore be very welcome).

Winter Garden Light - Workshop #1

Wednesday 9th June, 6pm @ Community Art Works (81 Achilles Ave.)

Book Tickets: www.eventfinda.co.nz/2021/winter-garden-light-workshop-1/nelson

Winter Garden Light is a project for the community by the community. The project will initially feed into two events; the Victory Matariki celebrations on 2nd July and a gathering at the Waimarama Community Gardens on the 4th July.
The project is about the power of community and the importance of bringing people together. It will also shine a light on just a few of the local community groups but in particular the Waimarama Community Gardens.

The project comprises a series of origami stars created from basic sonobes (modules), the building blocks of modular origami structures. When the stars are brought together, a small computer built into each star will communicate with other nearby stars and then through a series of LED lights, bring them to life.

This is the first workshop that will be held this month led by Paul Lowry, a local expert in modular origami, a member of the Light Nelson Collective and Trustee of the Waimarama Community Gardens Trust. More workshops will be added depending on numbers. You will be taught the technique of folding the sonobes and using them to create the stars. No previous experience is necessary (either origami or electronics) but as numbers and components are very limited so we do ask that if register that you commit to finishing a lantern (you can work individually but we recommend working as a group). You will require persistence and time (Paul can create one in about 2 hours but it is likely to be 2-3 times that if you haven't created one before, but you will have plenty of time before the events). 

Please make sure you book tickets here www.eventfinda.co.nz/2021/winter-garden-light-workshop-1/nelson

In July we will run workshops that will explain how to program the micro-controllers used in the lantern and how you can use it in your own projects in the future.

We suggest a minimum koha of $15 for each lantern to help cover the cost of materials (you will own the lantern, including the micro-controller, wiring and LEDs), but please donate what you can (obviously if you can donate more that would be great; it will help cover the cost for those that can't as well as any additional costs of the project). A small battery USB 'power bank' will be needed to power each lantern. If you don't have have one we can provide one (either to purchased or loan). Please note that everybody working on this project is donating their time (and a lot of time has already gone into the project). We also couldn't do it without the support of Community Art Works, a local charity organization who are hosting the workshops (a donation to CAW would therefore be very welcome).

Four years ago a number of us came together at Community Art Works over several weeks to work on a project 'Camp Light' for the 2016 Light Nelson event. It was a collaboration between the Collective and The Sukita Project.
Last year the project was presented at the Costume and Textile symposium (CTANZ) at the Suter and following that we were asked to write a paper for 'Context' which we are very proud to now see in print!

A big thank you to our Kayan community, Community Art Works and to everybody who worked on this project.