Honouring Our Grandmothers Healing Journey is a movement that brings together generations of Indigenous people with other nationalities along the pacific northwest. The project endeavours to honour our Grandmothers lived experiences, stories, and legacies left for those of us to discover and share through storytelling, teachings, ceremony, and art.
A special community art project within this movement is the Elements Chest. The chest was created with the combined talents of seven multicultural artists, ranging from carpenters, poets, and visual artists who have a historic relationship with Indigenous peoples. These chests will travel to different communities collecting written letters, photos, and tokens for the creator, ancestors, mother earth, grandmothers, and families. These offerings help people to give thanks, celebrate, honour, grieve, resolve trauma, and find peace with what was destroyed, lost, stolen, forgotten, taken, gone missing, or murdered in their lives. The Honouring Our Grandmothers Healing Journey will end with the messages being properly respected, laid to rest, and released in ceremony to the sky. The focus is on personal, family, and community healing journeys, which take strength, truth, and courage (www.sacredrock.ca).
In celebration of this community art project, we invite artists of any cultural and racial background for a community meal at Mackin House. Come meet the visionary artist behind Honouring Our Grandmothers Healing Journey, Nadine Spence, and network with other artists in the community. During this event, Nadine will give an artist talk about this project and introduce an exciting paid opportunity for you to join the project. This opportunity is open to all artists attending this community meal.
Free. Registration Required.