Indigenous Beading Workshop – Orange Shirt Pin

Join Toronto-based Cree-Métis artist Marissa Magneson for a beginner-friendly beading workshop. Through this hands-on workshop, participants will walk away with a greater understanding of Indigenous beadwork, tools, and techniques as they work to complete a small beaded Orange Shirt pin. No experience is necessary.

A note from the artist: “I include ceremonial tobacco in these pins, recognizing that learning and discussing topics including, but not limited to, residential schools is heavy. The medicine is there to help us in navigating those feelings, while marking our commitment to and responsibility of reconciliAction. Likewise, this becomes a part of the ceremony found within this workshop, as the medicine is added in the community, making everyone a part of that work.” Participants are invited to fill their pins with ceremonial tobacco, one of the four sacred medicines, but this step is not mandatory.

Agenda 10:00 am – Doors Open 10:30 am to 1:00 pm – Workshop (with a 30-minute break)

About the Facilitator Marissa Magneson is a Cree-Métis artist, photographer, educator, and workshop facilitator currently pursuing her Ph.D. at York University in the Faculty of Education, where she is researching Beadwork as Pedagogy: A Bridge Towards Cultural Reclamation and (re)Conciliation. Her research explores Indigenous methodologies using beadwork as visual storytelling. Marissa’s work is rooted in decolonizing education, strengthening community, and cultural reclamation.

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