Another opportunity for a creatively therapeutic community art table!!
Join me and @juniorjuice93 at Queer n Trans Farmers Market - we aim to have a selection of art making supplies and invitations, and can’t wait to see what we create as a community!
ART HEALS! ART CONNECTS!
I’ll be tabling with the beauties @heartandhandsyyj and @greenmuseherbs accu-plants-n-art will be our vibe! Come see us!
Thanks to @queer.trans.farmers.market for all the labour involved in planning and delivering this awesome event for the second year in a row!!
June 28 2025
Oaklands Community Centre
11-4
Great poster by @graesalisbury!
@otherwayscreative and @esquimaltmutualaid will be participating in this years Esquimalt* Urban Arts Tour, Saturday July 5, 11am-4pm *on the unceded, unsurrendered lands of the Xwsepsum Nation
We will have a community art making table, a poetry station and a big community map where we hope to engage community members in sharing, marking and making art about what they love about their community!
Cannot WAIT to see you there.
‘We’re excited to let you know that 27 properties and more than 45 artists are on this year’s tour. We’re looking forward to event day, when visitors will walk, bike, bus and drive along the self-guided tour’
As a settler living on stolen Indigenous lands, at a time of multiple, brutal and interconnected global genocides, to draw on Anam Cara is not a nostalgic gesture—it’s a remembering and a responsibility to:
interrupt the colonial rupture of relationality,
return to land-based wisdom,
practice care that doesn’t dominate, diagnose, or extract,
de-center wealth accumulation,
bring our individual and collective soul back into our communities as we return to our full humanity.
CHECK OUT MY SUBSTACK (link in bio) for the inspiration for this post and the full story :)
****engage in reparations****
@eroticsofliberation has created this fund and I am inviting white bodied folks (especially those working in or participating / benefiting from somatic healing / therapeutic practices and spaces) to make a contribution - one time and monthly to this very tangible reparative action.
unearned wealth generated through racial capitalism reinforces inequitable access to healing modalities obvious in the wellness industry but also deeply, perpetually in liberation practice and activism spaces.
Link in my bio to participate in this work of reparation. Sign up for care’s newsletter while you’re there.
For many of us, staying connected to our creative selves in the heat of summer can be challenging.
It’s easy to just get busy trying to survive in the heat (and capitalism) and forget about the things that make us, us; that are important collectively.
Join me for this low barrier, low demand, low cost way to come together and imagine and become by making paper-bag-books!
0-$50 for the whole series - pay what you can, or not! Just come!
🌞 6-week creative summer series
Paper-Bag-Books
📅 Tuesdays | 🕛 12–1pm | 🌐 Online
June 17, June 24, July 8, July 15, July 22, July 29
* This is low barrier event with lots of space and choice*
Come on your own or with friends!
Come as and where you are! laying on some grass in the shade at the park, or from the beach, or from your bed!
cameras / screens can be on or off.
Each session will include the following OPTIONAL elements:
🙂↔️a guided somatically informed practice to connect to our creative selves
😎a brief community check in
🤩 some short creative prompts/inquiries to support your Paper-Bag-Book making
🥳 some time being together making or being
🤗a short check out
Making can happen before, during or after. You can make one or many books, using a range of materials.
ALL sessions will be recorded and shared out after so you can participate live or on your own time.
No art experience needed. Just curiosity, some paper bags, a glue stick and some scraps of bits and pieces :)
Supply list to be provided with registration.
Inspired by Monica Carpendale @katiarttherapy
DM me to join 💌 or comment “I’m in!”
#artastherapy #creativebecoming #resistance #neuroqueerworldmaking #paperbagbooks #griefandcreativity #arttherapy #creativecommunitycare
The thing about ART is that it needs you to become it! Unfolding is required! That is why Art is resistance to structures and patterns of dominance, and why Art together is an act of community care!
Supplies:
- paper bags (one or more)
- stapler
- glue
- some combo of: old magazines, books, papers, photos, fabric, string, needle and thread, buttons… whatever!
This book was created over a few days, unfolding. I didn’t have a plan when I started. I flipped through materials, and pulled out things that I felt drawn to or connected with. And started to place them on the folded, stapled paper bags… some i glued because I was sure or just felt like it - others I waited and moved again and then glued or stitched. I also tucked things in the pockets created by the bags opening, little secrets just for me.
I didn’t like it half way through. I didn’t like it when I finished it. I put it away.
A week later, I like it. I see myself reflected back to me, in ways I didn’t see before. a story of grief and power, loss and pleasure, connection and care, contradictions and conflicts…. articulated in choices.
Art reminds us who we are.
Stay tuned or dm me for more info on a summer creative practice series focus on this practice of paper-bag-book making. #collectivecare #art #neuroqueer #imaginationpractice #creativepractice
This paper-bag-book invitation inspired by Monica Carpendale @katiarttherapy
Hey community!
I’ve been away finishing my art therapy program and am now back @heartandhandsyyj !
glad to be here in the shoppe chillin with @greenmuseherbs looking so forward to making art with all of you that are booked in with me already.
For the summer I have 60-90min appointments Mondays 230-730, Wednesday 230-730 and Thursdays 1030-230. Link to more info and to book in bio. They are filling up which is awesome but there is still lots of room. Let me know if you can’t find something that works.
I am also offering OUTSIDE ART sessions by special arrangement so if that sounds like a fit for you send me a dm.
Things are a lot. We need art.
Looking forwards to seeing you!
I’m at @katiarttherapy finishing my final residency as I complete my 2 yr postgrad art therapy diploma. It’s been a process and I am so stoked to keep doing what I’m doing 🔥
