Interwoven relationships

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A Somewhere? makers’ workshop with interdisciplinary artist Megan Samms, joined by Kelsey Street

Centre for Research and Innovation

WORKSHOP Apr 22 &amp; 23Interwoven relationships.JOIN interdisciplinary &amp; textile artists Megan Samms and Kelsey Street in conversation and for a practical workshop.DISCUSS your sense of identity and place and what living in Corner Brook or Western Newfoundland means to you.EXPLORE how artists like Megan and Kelsey use textiles, fibre, beadwork, and other materials to express how they are connected to land and place.CREATE artwork to materialize your ideas with Megan and Kelsey.We’re CALLING all artists and people who like to make things! Please join us.See below for MORE DETAILSHow do we understand, respond to, and represent the ‘somewheres’ that create the intersecting lines of our lives? How can we share those representations to cultivate more story sharing, more caring, more truth of place? Join Megan Samms for a collaborative workshop that will explore themes of multi-faceted identity, relationship to immediate environment and place, story-sharing, and making based on these. The workshop will start by exploring different modes that tactile media can be used creatively to create objects reflective and representative of specific experiences of place, of Somewhere. Working both individually and collectively, participants will create pieces that represent Somewhere and their personal narrative connected there. The pieces created in the workshops will then be installed together, intertwining each story and idea, illuminating new meanings and understandings of place and belonging and creating an atmosphere of this place. An installation will be exhibited in public spaces around Corner Brook to activate the creative reflections made in workshop, around the community. Interwoven Relationships will run over two days at the Centre for Research and Innovation. Registration will be capped at 15 people for the morning sessions (10am-1pm, including lunch) and an open, all-ages drop-in will take place each day from 1-4 pm. Participants are invited to bring materials from their own surroundings and homes to incorporate in the project (fabric, paper, ceramics, wood, stones, found objects, odds and ends!); participants are also encourage to bring a personal item with them that represents their sense of place to them. These contributions will serve as a type of “mood board” for making. For this workshop Megan and participants will be supported by Kelsey Street, who is an artist from Elmastukwek.Note: A $10 registration fee is required up front to cover materials and other costs, but will be refunded to participants at the event (fee will not be refunded to registrants who do not attend). If participants pay directly to the Rotary Arts Centre box office (in-person or 709-630-0012) it will be refunded 100%, but unfortunately we cannot refund the additional service fee, of approximately $3, that Eventbrite charges. If this is a barrier to participation, please email whatissomewhere@gmail.com and accommodations will be made.Somewhere? is made possible with support through SiteLines, a partnership between Research and Graduate Studies at OCAD University and the Canada Council for the Arts, supporting BIPOC artists, and Memorial University’s Public Engagement Accelerator Fund.

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