Sally Jean Davis [Shipard]
Our newest team member was featured in Thor's HammerOur newest member Sally was featured in Thor’s Hammer.
Sally Jean Davis [Shipard] is a Canberra maker who has recently finished her mature-age carpentry apprenticeship, and started learning to make furniture this year in Canberra.
This is already Sally’s second life at only 32, after a prestigious career as a professional soccer player, representing Australia with the Matildas from 2004 – 2014.
We are very lucky to have Sally on our team running classes for Two Sheds.
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Young Bega woodturner secures DFAT order
Young Bega woodturner secures DFAT order.Jamie, a talented woodturner and woodworker, first started doing woodworking classes at Two Sheds in Bega and it quickly became his favourite pastime. Look at what he's acheived now. Good on you Jamie! Read more from the...
From Rebels to a cause: Women and children take over former bikie clubhouse
From Rebels to a cause: Women and children taking over bikie clubhouse.Here’s a bit of excitement for us at Two Sheds. We made the front page of the Canberra Times. We've turned the old bikie fortress into a place where women and kids can learn lots of fun woodwork...
Australian Woodworker Feature Article
AUSTRALIAN WOODWORKER MAGAZINE FEATURE The summer fires which burnt out of control throughout the ACT High Country and destroyed so much of the Bega Valley and NSW South Coast prompted Jo to set up her program for the habitat boxes. The summer 2020 bushfires in...
Home of the Adirondack Chair
This is something I wrote when I was travelling in the US researching new ways to extend woodwork and carpentry to women and kids. I never did post it so I thought I would now since the Adirondack Chair Workshops have become such a staple at Two Sheds. Cheers Jo. I...
Champions
Anyone who lives in the country or has visited at the right time of year will know the excitement of going to a country town show.Anyone who lives in the country or has visited at the right time of year will know the excitement of going to a country town show. The...
Canberra Region Feature
Two sheds was featured as part of the Canberra Region. In 2019 Two Sheds Workshop was nominated by the Bega Valley Shire Council to be one of the Champions of the Bega Valley to be featured on the Canberra Region tourism website. Read more from the Blog....Ready...
About Regional Podcast
In 2019 Two Sheds was featured in an About Regional newsreel. About Regional features local stories in the South Coast NSW and ACT regions. This article is about the expansion of Two Sheds to the ACT.Read more from the blog....Ready to grow Yourself?children's and...
Festival Of Open Minds
In 2018 I was a guest presenter at the Festival of Open Minds. The Festival of Open Minds pulls together national and local ideas with the aim of strengthening regional communities presented in a TED X talk style. This one was the Inaugral annual event and brought...
Jo Saccomani Churchill Fellow
In 2016 I was honoured to be awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship....I travelled to the USA to find and explore new ways to teach carpentry and woodwork to women and children and discovered a social movement based on making with and learning from others....