The workshops
These 6 workshops are free of charge to our Northern community, offered in Flin Flon, MB. We invite artists of all mediums to dive into these practices to support their artistic practices, explore, and maybe step into moments of discomfort to discover a deeper connection to life around us.
childcare available during the workshops, please select on registration if needed.
generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts
Workshops
Workshops
Open Studio Time
Tuesday’s & Thursday’s
Open studio time is for artists of all mediums to come to together to experiment with ideas, chat with other artists, maybe collaborate with other artists while able to leave their work at a station during the entire 6 weeks.
4-6:30pm
Tuesdays April 9, 16, 23, 30, May 7, 14
Thursdays April 11, 18, 25, May 2, 9, 16
*onsite childcare for up to 4 children available. please note when registering*
Who are we?
Katie & Kristy: Our spiritual, artistic, and ancestral practices share commonalities and we appreciate the camaraderie we gain from being like-minded individuals in a small, remote area. Over the past 6 years, we have undertaken a number of cultural events as a means to add something new to the community—something that wasn’t present when we were growing up in the Flin Flon area. Our goal is to widen the perspective of people living here and to offer a deeper sense of belonging. In 2018 and 2019, we offered a wilderness retreat called Soul Sisters Summer Camp that focused on plant medicine, ceremony, meditation, and movement. In 2020, we founded a cooperative studio space that was entirely drop-in and by donation. In 2020 and again in 2023, we created an art event titled Art in the Wild, which has featured theatre, music, opera, visual art and performance art. A big motivator for both of us is that we grew up in this area and we both have professional practices that scarcely have opportunity for presentation here.
contact us
any questions can be sent to:
artistsinthewild53@gmail.com
Theme: Land and Site (Kristy and Katie)
Description:
Kristy will lead a 30 min meditation exploring the relationship of our body to place in terms of history and traditional land.
Introduction exercise.
This will either be followed by group discussion or walk around the performance site. Followed by a discussion and actionable exercises about site and site specific work.
What to Bring: Yoga Mat or blanket to lay on (let us know if you need a Mat
Theme: Collage as a portal to other worlds (Katie)
Description: World making, as artists we often create new worlds by choosing what is seen and unseen by the audience. We will use to think about the edge, cyanotype, collage, drawing, and mixed media to speculate other worldly possibilities or parallel unfolding of time. We will use our dreams, short readings and films to aid our research.
What to Bring: Scissors and Magazine for yourself and to share.
Theme: Yes/no, Boundaries and Consent (Kristy)
Description: A workshop around the theme rooted in the dance practice of Contact Improvisation and somatic exercise from Embodied Flow. There will be meditation, touch, learning to say yes/no verbally and non-verbally, and physical movement/yoga practice. This workshop will focus on establishing where one is and can be useful going into a collaboration process to guide what someone feels comfortable with by learning to listen to their intuition.
As art makers we use our intuition, knowing what that alignment feels like in our bodies in the first half of the workshop and then we will talk through our own personal practices and instinct and impulse in making - the questions we ask like “does that go there” do I need more colour? Less blue?
What to Bring: An in progress art piece you are working on.
Theme: Sculpture and impermanence (Katie)
Description: This workshop considers the materiality of all things in between rocks and snow, their timeline of ephemerality instead of imposing our human dominant timeline upon them. We will experiment with assemblage and repurposing of materials. To support these experiments, we will look at current artists and of the recent past whose work considers the timely decay of all things.
What to Bring: 5 objects (could be anything: a spoon, a photo, a toy, a stick, etc)
Theme: Dance a Poem (Kristy)
Description: How can we express movement from one medium to another? This is great for writers, content creators, those who use social media reels, and/or digital media artists.
Inspired by a workshop taken at the Dancefulness Contact Improv Festival in Ukraine (2018), I would like to introduce the idea of using a camera to capture the essence of a poem. We will use short poems, work in pairs, and have a time limit to prevent overthinking and to go outside to capture a movement sequence they feel expresses the words. This will be done on our phones and can be edited to share with the group.
What to Bring: Bring any poems or lyrics that inspire you to share, smart phone that records
Theme: Collaboration as an opportunity for unique outcomes (Katie and Kristy)
Description: This workshop considers collaboration between artists, how we communicate with each other, our practices, our materials. What points are we open in compromising, what parameters do we believe are so important they have no will to bend. All mediums and outcomes will be welcomed and explored. To support this work, we will look at collaborative pairs and groups and we will participate in communication exercises.