Community Living Room & Mural Reflection (Workshop 2)

Pull up a chair.

After our Past. Present. Future. workshop, we’re turning the plaza into a cozy outdoor living room — a space to gather, reflect, and look at what we created together.

Join us for a relaxed, drop-in afternoon where we’ll share the stories, drawings, collages, and symbols contributed by the community — and gently shape what comes next.

No worries if you didn’t make it to the first workshop. This is a beautiful moment to jump in, contribute your voice, and help make sense of what others have shared.

Stay for a few minutes or stay awhile.

We’ll create an open-air “living room” with frames and soft gathering spaces to display artwork and reflections from Workshop One.

You’re invited to wander, pause, and notice:

• What feels familiar?
• What feels powerful?
• What feels missing?
• What belongs together?

This is a chance to see the neighbourhood through each other’s eyes.

At the reflection table, you can:

• Write or draw a response
• Add new insights
• Submit a postcard from the first workshop
• Make connections between pieces

You don’t need to have attended the first workshop.
You don’t need to be an artist.

Just come as you are.

Throughout the day, facilitators will be there to chat and gently gather themes and emerging connections.

Serena will support real-time synthesis, helping translate community reflections into patterns that will guide the mural’s composition and storytelling. You’ll be able to see ideas forming as they happen.

This mural is not just about images, it’s about belonging.

This gathering helps ensure the final design reflects lived experience, shared memory, and collective imagination.

A third workshop will follow, where we’ll paint the mural design together.

For now, come sit, reflect, and help us make sense of what we’ve created.

After this gathering, the mural team will begin translating community themes and artwork into a draft composition.

Anyone who would like to stay connected can sign up for a virtual feedback session (Zoom), where we’ll share the draft mural design and invite your reflections before it’s finalized.

If you participated in either workshop, or simply care about how the mural takes shape, you’re welcome to join.

We believe public art should be shaped with the people it represents.

This project was initiated by artists Allison , Carol, and Emily, who came together to imagine a mural shaped directly by community voice.

They are joined by Serena, whose background in mixed methodologies and community data practices helps translate stories and visual contributions into themes that inform the mural design.

Dawson, a longtime neighbourhood connector, brings deep local knowledge and lived experience of Grandview-Woodland to the process.

Together, the team blends art, listening, research, and relationship-building to create a mural rooted in shared memory and collective imagination.

Learn more about the project:
👉 https://www.communitymarks.ca/

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