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Bee Queens: Collaborating with the Hive

Bee Queens: Collaborating with the Hive, is a documentary project that looks at contemporary female artists who work with bees as a creative inspiration.

12/08/2024

Bees are dedicated to their hives

05/07/2024

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/chemicals-environment-testing-pollinators-northern-ontario-1.7250447

Dawn Lalonde of Mikkola Family Farm & Apiary in Lively, Ont., is raising money to send samples of the dead bees to a lab for further testing. She and others believe their sudden death is a warning that something is wrong in the environment.

25/05/2024

Good news for honey bees in Ontario!

Canada and Ontario Bolstering Honey Bee Health | Ontario Newsroom

21/05/2024

Happy World Bee Day!

Happy World Bee Day! 🐝

Do you know how important the bees and other pollinators are in the environment?

Here are a few activities you can consider to celebrate World Bee Day:

1. Plant bee-friendly flowers: Dedicate some time to plant flowers that attract bees in your garden or community spaces. Bees rely on flowers for nectar and pollen, so creating habitats rich in flowering plants can support bee populations.

2. Educational workshops: Humble Bee hosts a rooftop workshop several times a month. Our expert master beekeeper will provide an up close and personal tour through a live beehive. We'll show you the various parts of a beehive and explain how the bees work together.

3. Host a bee-themed event: Organize a bee-themed event in your community, such as a honey tasting, beekeeping demonstration, or art exhibition focused on bees and pollination. Ask us to part of your next event!

4. Support local beekeepers: Purchase honey and other bee products from our store! We have candles, wax and other fun products!

5. Spread awareness on social media: Share information about World Bee Day and the importance of bees on social media platforms. You can use hashtags like to join the global conversation and raise awareness about bee conservation.

Share what you know in the comment section. We can always learn from each other!

08/05/2024

BEE-ware protect our bees!

Did you know, those little bees you see in the evening sitting on flowers are old bees.

Old & sick bees don't return to the hive at the end of their day.

They spend the night on flowers, and if they have the chance to see another sunrise, they resume their activity by bringing pollen or nectar to the colony.

They do this sensing that the end is near.

No bee waits to die in the hive so as not to burden the others.

So, next time you see an old little bee sat upon a flower as the night closes in...
..thank the little bee for her life long service.

04/04/2024

Very cool!

These students from a local Oakville high school are building awareness about the conservation of Monarch Butterflies while providing individuals a safe way to witness the awe-inspiring event of the total solar eclipse.

To learn more visit their website https://www.monarchbutterflyeclipse.com/

The Monarch Butterfly Eclipse Project

04/04/2024

So powerful!! Save. The. Bees. 🐝

16/10/2023

It's amazing how many beekeepers came out to help with the bees when this accident happened.

Five million bees and their hives flew off of a truck in the midst of a "hive move" on Wednesday after the driver swerved to avoid a collision in Burlington,...

04/06/2023

Always BEE Kind 🐝

20/11/2022

A tip to help the bees! 🐝🐝

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Bee Queens: Collaborating with the Hive, is an incredible new documentary project co produced by Barbara Evans and Wendy Donnan. Bee Queens features the work of a unique group of contemporary Canadian artists who have been recognized for their work with the bee-- an endangered species whose demise could lead to untold environmental and ecological damage. Although diverse in representational modes, the work of these artists is united by strong aesthetic, poetic, and political impulses. Contemporary visual artists such as Penelope Stewart, Aganetha Dyck, and Diane Borsato use bees as metaphors and models for work that is both critically acclaimed and inspirational.

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Bee Queens: Collaborating with the Hive

The natural world has long been an important part of the artistic process. Many thousands of years ago, early humans set a precedent for including the animal kingdom in their art, traces of which can still be seen in paintings in the ancient Chauvet caves in France. Bees in particular occupy a special place in the creative spirit. In the early 20th centurey, such avant-garde artists as Marc Chagall, Modigliani, Maeterlinck, Apollinaire and Diego Rivera lived and worked in La Ruche, the Parisian Artistic centre conceived of as a hive of creative activity by the sculptor Alfred Boucher. Architects like Antonio Gaudi and Le Corbusier were deeply innfluenced by the bee and its social life. Salvador Dali included the honey metaphor in his paintings and Joseph Beuys’ startling performance art reflected his fascination with the bee. Contemporary artists continue to interpret the bee both metaphorically and literally, to explore ideas as diverse as the industrial age, architecture, migration, and environmental change. These works not only enforce a reflection upon the human condition, they also draw our attention to the often superior, “utopian” order of the natural world. The documentary Bee Queens: Collaborating with the Hive, will explore these ideas through the work of a unique group of contemporary Canadian artists who have been recognized for their work with the bee--an endangered species whose demise could lead to untold environmental and ecological damage. Female Canadian artists such as Penelope Stewart, Aganetha Dyck, and many others, use bees as metaphors and models for work that is both critically acclaimed and inspirational. This film will document how, and why, these artists feel a special affinity with bees, which helps them to do extraordinary work collaborating “with the hive.”