Social Fabric Lab at Thinking Rock Community Arts HQ

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Join our next Social Fabric Lab, from 3:30pm to 6pm on Thursday, October 9th!

We'll gather at Thinking Rock HQ (199 Main Street, Thessalon, ON) to participate in a gentle, co-creative artmaking challenge: we'll begin to stitch a new patchwork of blocks and story snippets, handmade by many hearts and hands at Thinking Rock programs over the past year. We'll host this event as part of Ontario Culture Days, and we hope you can join us!

No experience is necessary. Supplies and instruction will be provided. Caregivers should accompany and support youth participants under 12. Pre-registration is appreciated - email [email protected] for info and to register.

And be sure to watch our socials and our programming calendar (via our Linktree in bio, or our website at www.thinkingrock.ca) for more great events to come. For details, please contact us by email ([email protected]) or by calling (705) 542-1100.

This program is supported by funding from the New Horizons for Seniors Program, the City of Sault Ste. Marie, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Governments of Ontario and Canada, and contributions by community donors!

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Thinking Rock Community Arts

Based in Thessalon, Algoma District, Northern Ontario, we co-create art with and for the people living along the North Shore of Lake Huron, from Genaabaajing (Serpent River First Nation) to Baawaating (Sault Ste. Marie) and all points in between. We’re a team of artists, cultural workers and community members of Indigenous, Newcomer and settler descent who co-create spaces for dialogue, mutual understanding and artful social change through multidisciplinary, multi-generational, cross-cultural community arts projects.

Through our free and inclusive artistic programming, we invite people of all Nations, ages, abilities, backgrounds and identities to join us in playing, making and dreaming about this special place we call home – as it was, as it is, and as it might yet be. We learn more everyday about what that invitation, the spaces we hold together, and the ways we show up for each other can and must look like, and we bring this growing understanding to our work.

We believe that if Central Algomans of Indigenous, Newcomer and settler descent co-create community arts projects and presentations, then we’ll build relationships across cultures and communities, and that opportunities to live, work and play in the arts will increase across the region. Ultimately this will lead to more inclusive, vibrant and resilient communities across Algoma.