Beading is Medicine Workshop

Elder Doe Thomas will lead a conversation and circle where we come together in an intentional way to discuss how beading is healing and how connecting to it as a practice can be tied to our emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being. We will be beading ornaments and will have supplies on hand to do so! We hope to have talks on how beading in circle can foster common threads within community, and how the power of beadwork can be used to resist and push back against ongoing settler colonialism.

Beading is an important pathway for Indigenous peoples to restore, revitalize, and reclaim ancestral practices and community connections destroyed by colonization. As a decolonial practice, beadwork mobilizes Indigenous knowledge transmission and is intrinsically tied to the emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being of Indigenous peoples.

Justine Woods and Presley Mills in their article Beading Is Medicine: Beading as Therapeutic and Decolonial Practice
(2023)

Where
OLARA, Second floor in the All My Relations space

Supplies Needed
Supplies are provided along with light refreshments

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