Social Fabric Community Arts Project @ Fall Rendezvous

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Find the Thinking Rock Community Arts team at the Ermatinger Clergue National Historic Site's 2025 Rendezvous Event! We'll be bringing some hands-on activities to make together that are part of our larger, multi-year Social Fabric community art project. We invite you to come out and contribute to this project-in-process by adding some stitches, sharing some stories, and joining our circle to celebrate Culture Days and this special place we call home.

If you've got other handwork projects you'd like to bring along with you to work on instead, please do - we love to share creative space and learn more about what and why people are making across Algoma!

Registration is encouraged, and drop-ins are welcome. Please contact us for further details or to register (email us at [email protected]). Check out our website (www.thinkingrock.ca) to learn more about our work, a for a list of upcoming programming dates we've planned at the Old Stone House and elsewhere this Fall!

We thank our incredible partners at the Old Stone House for hosting us, and gratefully acknowledge our funders at the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the City of Sault Ste. Marie, the New Horizons for Seniors Program, the Governments of Ontario and Canada, and a host of community donors, partners and supporters.

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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.