Art for Social Change Workshop Series - Miikawaadizi: They Are Beautiful and Know What They Are Doing

FREE, Spaces limited – Register/RSVP at the link in bio!

Art Not Shame’s sixth workshop of the Art For Social Change Workshop Series, generously supported by OPIRG Guelph, is “Miikawaadizi: They Are Beautiful and Know What They Are Doing”. This workshop will take place on Tuesday, August 19th from 5-8 pm in our space, and is co-facilitated by Issac Two White Feather and Lori Gentle Eagle.

In this free, participatory art workshop, Isaac Two White Feather and Lori Gentle Eagle invite the community to learn what mental health and justice looks like through an Indigenous lens. The collaborative effort will be centred around creating a ceremonial blanket to wrap around a person looking to reignite their divine spark. By sewing, painting, and patching messages of hope on this blanket, we will demonstrate that ruptures can be repaired when we care about each other.

Issac Two White Feather is a member of the Wolf Clan from Saugeen First Nation who is now living on Treaty 3 (Cambridge, ON). After surviving a childhood disconnected from his cultural roots and enduring many overdoses in his young adulthood as a result of the aftereffects of multi-generational trauma, Two White Feather is grateful to have been given another chance to live the good life (mino-bimaadiziwin) and to give back to others; all while still navigating his way on the Red Road with a vulnerable brain.

Lori Gentle Eagle is of French Canadian, Irish, Scottish roots and Wise Woman ancestry. Committed to decolonization and allyship with Indigenous People for many years, in both professional and personal circles, she now grips her cane and walks proudly as an Empath with the medicine name “Gentle Eagle” gifted by Gaisheda Kheawok of The Whispering Song Teaching Lodge.