Queerly Yours: Community Art-Making

Queerly Yours: Community Art-Making Studio

Welcome to Queerly Yours - a celebration of all things 2SLGBTQQIA+! Join us in InnerSpace Art Therapy Studio's beautiful group studio space - cozy vibes, artsy energy and aesthetically pleasing-ness. This event is a safe(r) space for folks to express themselves, meet new people, spend time in community, and get to know themselves through art-making and creativity. Connect with like-minded individuals, share stories, and embrace the diversity that makes us all unique. Let's come together to create a vibrant and inclusive atmosphere that celebrates who we are.

Guest Artist Information:

Vikki (RaveMommys)

@ravemommys

RAVEMOMMYS is a harm reduction–focused community collective rooted in care, safety, and connection within nightlife and beyond. We create safer spaces where people can show up as they are, access resources, and build community through creativity.

Vikki is the founder of RAVEMOMMYS and a dedicated harm reduction worker with experience in addiction counselling and art therapy. She brings both professional knowledge and lived experience to her work, having been on her own recovery journey related to mental health and substance use for nearly three years.

Through exploring various coping strategies in sobriety, Vikki discovered a deep passion for creative expression as a tool for healing, grounding, and connection. She now shares these creative outlets through community-based workshops that encourage self-expression, mutual support, and inspiration, truly meeting people where they’re at and honouring creativity as a form of care.

To find out more about the amazing work Rave Mommys does, and/or how you can support or join them, please visit:

@ravemommys

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ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS EVENT WILL BE DONATED TO RAVE MOMMYS’ SERVICES

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Rave Mommyz's Queerly Yours Offering:

RAVEMOMMYS Creative Care Workshop

In this workshop, we’ll be transforming clothing using fabric paint, jewels, patches, and other materials as a form of self-expression and grounding.

We will also have a bracelet making station and harm reduction themed colouring pages.

Most supplies will be provided, along with harm reduction resources and a supportive environment that centres connection, creativity, and self love. While we are able to provide the decorative materials, we do encourage you to bring any articles of clothing that you wish to work on as we may have limited options.

No experience needed, just come as you are.

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Snacks and beverages will be available (included in the pricing), and art supplies / materials will all be made available (also included in the pricing).

If you have any accessibility questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out: [email protected] ; I'm happy to collab in whatever capacity I can to help make events more accessible to folks.

*Accessibility: There are no steps to enter the building / space ; there are gender-neutral washrooms available.

There is a parking lot located around the building, as well as street parking on King St.

Info: Soft start means that we won't officially get started with the event / workshop until 1:15 PM. This gives folks a chance to show up and arrive, get oriented to the space, move around the space, reflect and connect with others, grab snacks and beverages, etc.

Info: This is very approximate - but we will go around a meet everyone briefly (you are always welcome to pass or opt out of any sharing or speaking components of the workshop if you don't feel comfy). Lex will officially orient everyone to the space, where to find things, bathroom situations, etc. - as well as extend official invitations for snacks, beverages, freedom to take breaks whenever needed, art supplies. You are always welcome to speak to Lex directly if you are wishing for assistance in accessing anything in the space or have any questions or concerns.

Info: Please see description above for more specifics about the artist and their offerings. Offerings are always an invitation, so if you just wish to sit and listen and do your own thing in the space, you are more than welcome to as long as we are all being respectful of each other's space and the facilitator's capacity / ability to share their information and practice.

Info: Very approximate time frame - we will check in with one another on how the day went, what we learned or want to take from the workshop, and things that came up for us throughout the process. We will make metaphorical offerings to the group and one another in order to close in a good way. Folks are welcome to stick around for a little bit afterwards to chat further.

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