A Very Special Making Night: Orange Shirt Day 2025

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Join us on September 30th from 6:30pm to 8pm for a very special Making Night: a space of learning, reflection, connection and creation honouring Orange Shirt Day - the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

We are honoured to welcome special guests Devaney Boulter and members of the Northern Indigenous Youth Council (NIYC) at Central Algoma Secondary School (CASS), who will offer an Orange Shirt Day presentation and lead us in a beading activity: creating orange shirt pins.

This is a hybrid event: participants may join online via Zoom, or in person at Thinking Rock’s office (199 Main Street, Thessalon). Registration is required and we have a limited number of in-person spaces as well as beading kits to share. Please pre-register by contacting us at [email protected]; confirmation including Zoom details will follow.

Please note that while beading kits are free, we encourage participants to make a donation to the Orange Shirt Society (https://orangeshirtday.org/) or Indspire (https://indspire.ca/) in the spirit of reciprocity and reconciliation.

Along with your beading kit, registrants are asked to please bring an open heart. Your presence is appreciated as we craft an interwoven community committed to truth and reconciliation, together.

Thinking Rock gratefully acknowledges 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.