Beaded Brooch Workshop with Cecilia Elizabeth Best

In this workshop, you will work alongside local Indigeneous artist Cecilia Elizabeth Best to learn traditional stitching techniques to create your own beaded brooch.

About the Artist

Cecilia Elizabeth Best is a local, Indigiqueer beadwork artist, researcher, and historian. They are responsible to the urban Indigenous community in the Kitchener-Waterloo region and is mixed Métis, First Nations, and Vietnamese. As a Scoop survivor, Cecilia Elizabeth was raised in Saskatchewan's child welfare system and was adopted out to non-Indigenous guardians from Ontario. Their art is an expression of their reclamation process in conjunction with their PhD studies in the history department at York University.

Discover more about Elizabeth through their website and social media.

National Day of Truth and Reconciliation & Orange Shirt Day

Each year, both the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day take place on September 30.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation honours the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities. Public commemoration of the tragic and painful history and ongoing impacts of residential schools is a vital component of the reconciliation process.

Orange Shirt Day is an Indigenous-led grassroots commemorative day intended to raise awareness of the individual, family and community inter-generational impacts of residential schools, and to promote the concept of “Every Child Matters”. The orange shirt is a symbol of the stripping away of culture, freedom and self-esteem experienced by Indigenous children over generations.

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