2018 Workshops
Sunday November 18 Workshops at Memorial Park Library - Free and All Ages
Zine Fair run by Blake MacLeod Featured artists : Stacey Bru, Chelsea Allard, Alexis Kondra, Olivia Forsyth, Madison Hope, Krow Potter, Mary GN
Patrons can drop by - type or handwrite a letter describing a personal situation that describes overcoming social/cultural challenges and how to overcome them. Be as raw and personal as you can be, it’s for yourself. It’s a way to expose oneself and to not ‘sweep under the rug’
Facilitated by: Leila Sidi from Tuna Tone + Kendra from Not Enough Fest, Edmonton
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"Do you create things?! Do you care about justice?! We do!
Design justice asks that we interrogate our creative processes and center community, care, and accessibility in our work. As creators and collaborators, we are encouraged by the Design Justice Network and its design principles to disrupt narratives of power and privilege that determine who gets prioritized in design practices and who gets left behind.
Join us in imagining what a liberatory design justice practice might look like. We will ask questions such as: how can we dismantle systems of oppression through code? Or heal through woodwork? How can the designer become facilitator instead of expert?
Leila is a tenderhearted community handyboy. She is a woodworker and designs and builds electric guitars under the name TunaTone Instruments. She organized the Brown, Black & Fierce festival in Edmonton.
Kendra is forever a schemer, faithful collaborator, and self-deprecating artist. She is a grad student in digital humanities and library and information studies and she works at the EPL Makerspace. She organized Not Enough Fest Edmonton for the 2 years of its existence.
Leila and Kendra love deep and meaningful friendship and each other."
Leila Sidi | Tuna Tone : tunatoneinstruments.com
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Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, and film. Vivek is headlining the Femme Wave Fun House on Friday night as one half of Too Attached, and we are thrilled to have her speak at our workshop event. This Q&A session will be hosted by local hip-hop favourites Cartel Madras.
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What the heck is a zine? The world wide web defines a zine as a noncommercial often homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subject matter. Come one, come all! Let’s turn a simple 8.5x11 sheet of paper into a vehicle for your doodles, poetry, maybe even your grocery lists - a zine knows no bounds!
Bio:
Blake McLeod is a mixed media artist originally from Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada whom is currently living and working in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
She moved to Calgary to finish her Bachelor of Fine Art at the Alberta College of Art + Design which she completed in May 2016. She has been writing songs and slinging coffee ever since.
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Join us for playful creative exploration and conversation through art and writing. There will be individual and group exercises. No art or creative writing experience necessary. Supplies will be provided.
Stephanie and Maraya are the Book Babas
Maraya Loza Koxahn is a published author, visual artist, teacher, editor, and book coach with over years in the health and wellness industry.
Stephanie Hrehirchuk is a published author with diverse training in complementary alternative modalities. She has been coaching women for nearly 20 years and facilitating women’s circles for over five years.
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The lunar nodes are not planets but points in the heavens where the Sun, Moon and Earth’s orbit meet. The North Node symbolizes our karmic path forward, our growth edge for this lifetime. The South Node represents both the reservoir of gifts we have brought with us AND our unfinished business from previous lives (or previous 'this life'). Knowing the meaning behind their placement in our chart can give us insight into the place we stumble and struggle and help us to activate our innate gifts and greatest growth potential for our time on the planet. Workshop time 1.5 hours
Instructor, Ariel Learoyd, is a wholistic counsellor, energy healer and certified counselling astrologer. She has been studying and using symbolic systems for personal guidance and in her work for over 25 years.
