POLLINATORS by Yarrow Collective 

A participatory gardening installation series that playfully invites urban humans to build an ecosystem. 
​Part of Theatre SKAM’s SKAMpede 2021, Victoria BC
POLLINATORS Creative Team (SKAMpede 2021): 

LEAD GARDENER & CO-PRODUCER: Sammie Gough (she/her)
DRAMATURG & CO-PRODUCER: Laurel Green (she/her) 
CERTIFIED BEE STEWARD & LEAD GARDENER: Myriam Parent (she/they) @withbloompollinatorgardens
INSTALLATION & TEXTILE ARTIST: Emma-Sky Warner-Dilts (she/her) @blue.roots
DESIGNER & ILLUSTRATOR: Sophie Fuldauer (she/her) @fuldauer
ACTIVATOR: Zoe-Blue Coates (she/her)
Hych’ka Siem to artist Johnny Aitken.
​
A participatory gardening installation series that playfully invites urban humans to build an ecosystem: participate in seed selection, decide where to plant, learn to weather disruption, and ensure plants thrive through acts of caretaking. POLLINATORS was part of Theatre SKAM’s SKAMpede performance festival July 17 & 18, 2021.  

Shaped by those who tended them, interactive gardens were found at four locations around downtown Victoria: seeding on the coastal edge of Songhees Point p’álәc’әs, disrupting under the Bay Street Bridge, caretaking in the Wharf Street Parking Lot, and planting on the Gorge side of the Selkirk Trestle.
BEE ZINE features fun facts about  ‘star’ wild bees and native plants!
Created by certified Bee Steward Myriam Parent and backyard gardener Sammie Gough, designed and illustrated by Sophie Fuldauer. 
PRINT AT HOME 
 
Yarrow Collective is a collaboration between a group of settlers who are professional artists, performance activists, backyard gardeners, and a certified bee steward. In learning to be good visitors on this land, we seek to disrupt colonial, extractive assumptions around what ‘gardening’ is and imagine what it can be. Follow us on Instagram @yarrowcollective_
​
We pay our respects to the traditional keepers of this land, the Lekwungen-speaking People, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. The loss of bee and plant habitat in this territory are a direct result of colonization and stolen land. Yarrow Collective partners with local community groups who will steward future pollinator gardens and we learn from those who are healing the land. Plants from our gardens recently found homes at an Indigenous-led regeneration site on Mayne Island.
RESOURCES, LEARNING + ACTION 
Coast Salish artist, educator and activist Johnny Aitken 
First Peoples' Cultural Council Map of BC 
ŚW̱,ȻENEṈITEL Food Systems Initiative 
PEPÁḴEṈ HÁUTW̱ Foundation 
Island Pollinator Initiative
Saanich Native Plants
Compost Education Centre 
With Bloom Pollinator Gardens
Greater Victoria Green Team