Exploring Healing Through Art
Sept 7 – Oct 6 2024
This multi faceted exhibit includes art, workshops and ceremony.
- Sept 8 – Cooking workshop with Chef Destiny – Bison Three Sisters Stew
- Sept 14 – Artist meet & greet book signing with Suellen Evoy – Oozeer
- Sept 15 – Intuitive Energy Art Workshop with Suellen Evoy – Oozeer
- Sept 28 – Art Market with a variety of vendors
- Oct 5 – Intuitive Energy Art Workshop with Suellen Evoy – Oozeer
- Oct 6 – Drum Circle – TBD
Tickets to the workshops can by purchased here:
Workshop- Intuitive Energy Art Workshop – Suellen Evoy-Oozeer
This workshop includes creating a sacred space to explore your own spirit and connect with others. Individuals are encouraged to venture into the unknown and establish a greater familiarity with their spirit and their own unique creative source. Explore your own spirit with courage and abandonment while having fun. Some have reported feeling some healing or maybe even magic, you decide!
All materials provided. Please Bring paint shirt and water bottle.
Sunday Sept 15th 1pm – 5pm
Saturday Oct 5th 1pm – 5pm
Workshop – Culinary Class with Chef Destiny
Sunday Sept 8 1pm – 2:30PM
Join Chef Destiny Moser of FoodZen and Cedar Spoon Indigenous Catering for an Indigenous culinary experience. Learn to make Bison Three Sisters Stew and savour a bowl paired with a Fall Harvest Salad.
Growing up in a farming family, Chef Destiny combines her Indigenous heritage with her German upbringing to create hyper-local, ultra-seasonal meals. Her farm-to-table approach supports local businesses and prioritizes whole foods over processed ones. She collaborates closely with the Indigenous community, offering workshops and teaching experiences on Indigenous food, healthy eating, food sovereignty, and sustainability.
Come and enjoy familiar flavours elevated with unique Indigenous ingredients.
S.H.E. is Healing
by Suellen Evoy-Oozeer
“S.H.E. is Healing” 2024, a community art project resulting in 13 spirit portraits, is for all nations working to heal, themselves, families & communities. This project, which seeks to cultivate compassion, is inspired by the earth’s ability to heal. Like many women who turned to earthly wisdom during the pandemic, Suellen sought not only a connection with other women but also with her Celtic ancestors.
Encouraging women to tell their story Suellen caught the subject’s enthusiasm to share their spiritual side. This process resulted in her creating visual representations of spirit.
Artist Meet & Greet Saturday Sept. 14th 3pm – 5pm
The creation of this collection was the result of time Suellen spent learning from Indigenous Grandmothers. Join us Saturday Sept 14th 3pm – 5pm to hear Suellen’s story and take in the healing aspect of her Spirit Portraits. Suellen will be signing her book which will be available to purchase . This event is free to attend.
This work was greatly influence by many grandmothers: Powerful Sacred Woman. Grandmothers from various cultures who all pray for a kinder, gentler world for their grandchildren. These wise women know the future is only possible with a living earth. S.H.E. is healing, gives homage to all human’s connection to the earth. Also, nature’s ability to heal itself and all of us.
Woodlands After Dark
by Adam Monture & Jeremy Freiburger
The Woodlands After Dark is a collaboration between Adam Monture and Jeremy Freiburger of Cobalt Connects. The sculptures are hand-made by Jeremy, and are re-imagined versions of Adam’s stunning paintings. The series depicts woodland animals such as loons, bears, otters, deer, heron, frogs and turtles in aluminum with LEDs on the back that illuminate the sculptures when it is dark.
Adam is a Mohawk artist from the Six Nations reserve where he lives with his wife & five children. A carpenter by trade he enjoys spending time painting and being with his family. He is an entirely self-taught artist whose medium of choice is acrylic on canvas using various vibrant colours.
Jeremy is the founder and Cultural Strategist for Cobalt Connects
