Social Fabric Communi-Bee and Open House at Thinking Rock HQ

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Join the Thinking Rock team for a special Communi-Bee and Open House at the Thinking Rock Community Arts Office (TRHQ) in downtown Thessalon!

We'll be working on a selection of our Social Fabric activities, and sharing all of the materials and instructions needed to join in. No experience is necessary!

If you have a current textile work-in-process - perhaps some beading, stitching or knitting - please feel free to bring it along instead, and enjoy a creative visit with us.

We'll also be sharing a sampling of the Social Fabric works we've created to date: please drop by to take a peek at all we've created so far, as we're explored how fabrics, fibres and textiles have been made, used and created with over time, in Algoma; celebrated our common threads across community; and continue to find special storylines to weave into the Social Fabric project's upcoming culmination.

Registration is encouraged but drop-ins are also welcome. Caregivers are encouraged to accompany children under the age of 12. For details and to register, please contact Artistic Director, Miranda Bouchard at [email protected] or (705) 542-1100. We look forward to sharing creative space with you!

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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.