Juan William Chávez, Native Bee Workshop + Open House

Date: Saturday, June 17, 2023

Time: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Location: Northside Workshop, 1306 St Louis Ave, St. Louis, MO

Details:

Native Bee Stewardship Network aims to Decolonize the Hive by expanding our view of “Save the Honey Bees” to pivot towards advocating and supporting Native Bees. This hour-long knowledge sharing workshop celebrates native pollinators and their unique relationship with native plants through self-expression, environmental stewardship, and community building. Workshop participants will learn how to support native bees and plant native plants in a take-home grow bag. The grow bags are suitable for any outdoor space; your porch, balcony, front yard, or garden.

*** Thanks to everyone who signed up for the Native Bee Stewardship Network workshop! The workshop is now full, and we are no longer accepting RSVPs! ***

Juan William Chávez began his decade-long interspecies collaboration with the bees at the former site of Pruitt-Igoe in North St. Louis. Drawing parallels between colony collapse disorder and issues facing shrinking cities, like environmental racism and housing segregation, Chávez’s social practice models ways to reorient perceptions of places perceived to be vacant.

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