Social Fabric Open House at Thinking Rock Community Arts HQ

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Come and visit us at Thinking Rock Community Arts HQ!

On Friday, September 26th from 6:30pm to 8pm, we'll host a public Open House at Thinking Rock HQ (199 Main Street, downtown Thessalon, Ontario).

All are invited to visit our space, meet members of the team, and learn more about our free, inclusive, community arts-based work! We'll also acknowledge our funders (remarks around 7pm), share some of the Social Fabric artworks we've co-created in a special mini-exhibition, and share details about our upcoming Fall programs.

We'll set out one of our Social Fabric works-in-process to stitch away at together while we gather, If you've got handwork projects-in-process you'd like to bring along with you to work on around our making table, please do - we love to share creative space and learn more about what and why people are making across Algoma!

Light refreshments will be served. Please note that while the main programming space is accessible via a ramp to the sidewalk in front of the building, we do not have a wheelchair accessible washroom facility.

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 across Algoma this Fall!

We are thrilled to be part of Culture Days 2025, and we 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.