Sessions
Powwow Etiquette
Chat all things powwow with host Killa! Learn the dos and don’ts for powwow including respectful protocol for dancers, drums, different dance styles, differences between traditional and competition powwows, when audience members can participate, and much more! Everyone is welcome to join the conversation and encouraged to come with questions.
Session host Killa is from the Listuguj First Nation in Quebec and is one of Every One Every Day’s Co-Directors.
A powwow is a gathering and celebration of First Nation cultures through dance, singing, food, music, and crafts. In Mi’kmaq the word mawio’mi is used, which means ‘gathering’.
Handle Making and Tool Restoration #3
Ever wondered how a great tool handle is made? Or how to restore an old favourite? Join us to learn wood, methods, and hands-on techniques for shaping and fitting handles to tools, plus caring for them so they last. No experience needed; all are welcome.
Embracing Unpredictable Paint Pours #2
Join Ronald and David in a playful exploration of acrylic paint pouring as we mix and layer paint colours to reveal some amazing abstract designs. No two paintings come out the same, leaving you with a truly unique piece to take home.
Mi'kmaw Language: In Conversation
Learn how to introduce yourself in the Mi’kmaw language and practice with your fellow participants! This session is designed for beginners, but advanced speakers are also welcome to practice with us.
Pop-Up Art & Bike Repair Hub
The Pop-Up Bike Hub Mini and the Art Bikers are traveling in tandem to provide space, tools, materials and inspiration to create art and fix your bike. Get tuned up and tune in for some creative explorations!
Indigiqueer 101
This workshop is meant to promote acceptance, allyship and understanding for 2SLGBTQQIA+ Indigenous communities. Things covered in this workshop include the gender and sex binary, 2SLGBTQQIA+ identities, the impacts of colonialism and the church have had on shaped our current understandings of gender, sex, and sexuality, Canadian and Indigenous queer histories, and tips for allyship.
Inuit Style PomPom Keychain
Join Dora and Frances to learn how to sew your very own rabbit fur keychain! We will have lots of brightly dyed rabbit and faux fur for you to craft with your family, friends and neighbours. Listen to Dora and Frances throat sing while making this unique craft!
Frances and Dora run the Atelihai Inuit program at the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre that supports Inuit families in the Maritime Provinces.
Discovery Day at the Neighbourhood Shop
Join the Every One Every Day team as we explore the potential of the Neighbourhood Shop! Stop by for a light lunch and refreshments while we chat about the benefits of hosting a session with us, what you’d like to see or do in the Shop, and more.
Casual Sewing Drop-In
The Neighborhood Shop is open to everyone looking to start or continue working on their current sewing projects. Use our drop-in sewing sessions this spring and chat with fellow lovers of the craft. Learn, share, and exchange ideas!
Kite Making
Join us for a fun, hands-on session where we’ll turn simple sticks and paper into your very own high-flying craft! We’ll show you the easy tricks to get your kite off the ground and dancing in the clouds. Come get creative, get colorful, and let’s fill the sky together!
Acknowledgement in Relation
At Every One Every Day, we value and honour relationships, Wsitqamu'k (land), as well as our fellow human and nonhuman kin. That’s why we’ve adapted our view away from Land Acknowledgments and instead towards Acknowledgments in Relation. We invite all residents interested in learning and reflecting on their unique roles as treaty people to attend this session. Join host Tammy and your fellow neighbours for open and honest conversations about how to begin an Acknowledgment in Relation.
Session host Tammy is from Glooscap First Nation and is one of Every One Every Day’s Co-Directors.
Open Shop
Visit us at the Neighbourhood Shop for Open Shop hours. Bring a friend, work on a project, or just pop in to say hello and get inspired!
Open Shop
Visit us at the Neighbourhood Shop for Open Shop hours. Bring a friend, work on a project, or just pop in to say hello and get inspired!
Big Picnic!
Come join us at the Big Picnic, where our community gathers for outdoor games and a BBQ! Let’s celebrate together in North End Kjipuktuk, transforming the field by the George Dixon Centre into our playground!
Rain date: Sunday, June 28
Open Shop
Visit us at the Neighbourhood Shop for Open Shop hours. Bring a friend, work on a project, or just pop in to say hello and get inspired!
Open Shop
Visit us at the Neighbourhood Shop for Open Shop hours. Bring a friend, work on a project, or just pop in to say hello and get inspired!
Open Shop
Visit us at the Neighbourhood Shop for Open Shop hours. Bring a friend, work on a project, or just pop in to say hello and get inspired!
Open Shop
Visit us at the Neighbourhood Shop for Open Shop hours. Bring a friend, work on a project, or just pop in to say hello and get inspired!
Open Shop
Visit us at the Neighbourhood Shop for Open Shop hours. Bring a friend, work on a project, or just pop in to say hello and get inspired!
Open Shop
Visit us at the Neighbourhood Shop for Open Shop hours. Bring a friend, work on a project, or just pop in to say hello and get inspired!
Open Shop
Visit us at the Neighbourhood Shop for Open Shop hours. Bring a friend, work on a project, or just pop in to say hello and get inspired!
Open Shop
Visit us at the Neighbourhood Shop for Open Shop hours. Bring a friend, work on a project, or just pop in to say hello and get inspired!
Community Potluck
Celebrate the last day of May Action Week with a Community Potluck at the Neighbourhood Shop! Join residents and community members alike. Share conversations and connect with your neighbours over food! Please provide an ingredients list if you're bringing a homemade dish.
How to Play Waltes
Waltes is a uniquely Mi’kmaq game played with dice made traditionally from bone, wooden sticks, and a carved wooden bowl. It is a game of chance and strategy, with origins rooted in culture and storytelling.
Join Linda at the Neighbourhood Shop to learn how to play the game of Waltes with neighbours, friends, or family.
Discovery Day at the Neighbourhood Shop
Join the Every One Every Day team as we explore the potential of the Neighbourhood Shop! Stop by for a light lunch and refreshments while we chat about the benefits of hosting a session with us, what you’d like to see or do in the Shop, and more.
We Are All Dancers
Let’s move and groove to the songs we love and share the stories that move us! Everyone is welcome! Come solo, with friends, or bring the whole family to a joyful, all-ages celebration of dance, music, and community in Kjiptuktuk.
Handle Making and Tool Restoration #2
Ever wondered how a great tool handle is made? Or how to restore an old favourite? Join us to learn wood, methods, and hands-on techniques for shaping and fitting handles to tools, plus caring for them so they last. No experience needed; all are welcome.
Protest Banner Making
Do you have scrap fabric or old pillowcases lying around and want to give them a second life? Join our low-sew Banner Making session and design your own applique pillowcase banner at the Neighbourhood Shop!
Autism Roundtable Discussion
Join us for an engaging autism roundtable, exploring what autism is, lived experiences, and available supports. Connect with community, ask questions, share perspectives, and learn about local resources to better support autistic individuals and families together.
All My Lil Relations (Msit No’kmaqji’j)
Join resident Pat and explore Mi'kma'ki under the microscope this spring! Come check out some of our little relations: bees (amuk), flowers (wasuekl), butterflies (mimikejk), pebbles (kunte'jl). Bring small things you want to see magnified!
Casual Sewing Drop-In
The Neighborhood Shop is open to everyone looking to start or continue working on their current sewing projects. Use our drop-in sewing sessions this spring and chat with fellow lovers of the craft. Learn, share, and exchange ideas!
Walking the Circle: Tools for Wellness
This session invites participants to explore wellness as a living and dynamic circle. Through the wellness wheel and compassion meditation, participants will discover practical tools to connect mind, body, spirit and community.
Stitch a Community Tatreez Tapestry
In this session, there will be an introduction to the history and making of Tatreez; traditional Palestinian cross-stitching. Tatreez includes hundreds of region-specific motifs, which we will learn how to cross-stitch together.
Eight-Pointed Star Cross-Stitching
Join host, Kendall (They/Them/Nekm) for an afternoon of cozy crafting! Kendall will be teaching cross stitch, which is a type of embroidery comprised of X-shaped stitches done on fabric with an even and open weave, like Aida. Kendall has created a simple pattern for beginners using the Mi’kmaw eight-pointed star as a reference. Everyone is welcome to come and learn the basics of cross stitching and learn about the significance of the eight-pointed star in Mi’kmaw culture. Kendall is a proud Mi’kmaw person, originally from Membertou First Nation in Unama’ki (Cape Breton).
Open Shop
Visit us at the Neighbourhood Shop for Open Shop hours. Bring a friend, work on a project, or just pop in to say hello and get inspired!
Open Shop
Visit us at the Neighbourhood Shop for Open Shop hours. Bring a friend, work on a project, or just pop in to say hello and get inspired!
Open Shop
Visit us at the Neighbourhood Shop for Open Shop hours. Bring a friend, work on a project, or just pop in to say hello and get inspired!
Open Shop
Visit us at the Neighbourhood Shop for Open Shop hours. Bring a friend, work on a project, or just pop in to say hello and get inspired!
Open Shop
Visit us at the Neighbourhood Shop for Open Shop hours. Bring a friend, work on a project, or just pop in to say hello and get inspired!
Open Shop
Visit us at the Neighbourhood Shop for Open Shop hours. Bring a friend, work on a project, or just pop in to say hello and get inspired!
Amalamek Way Build Day
Building on insights gathered at the Neighbourhood Shop, this outdoor session brings NSCAD students, the Community Build Trailer, and neighbours together at Amalamek Park for hands-on design and build activities that transform shared ideas into real, on-site possibilities.
Meet at the greenspace on Amalamek Way - look for the Community Build Trailer!
Latin Cooking with Latispánica
Join Latispánica for a cooking class with Venezuelan ambassadors Darwin Rengifo and Tulio Quintero as they prepare Asado Negro (Grilled Roast), a traditional Venezuelan dish from Caracas, born in colonial times. Today it usually served on special family occasions and is a symbol of Venezuelan tradition.
Growing on Common Ground with Veith House Urban Farm
A multicultural garden knowledge exchange. Through conversation and stories, we'll co-create the foundations of multilingual crop signs installed at Veith House Urban Farm to help all gardeners connect, learn, and grow together.
Discovery Day at the Neighbourhood Shop
Join the Every One Every Day team as we explore the potential of the Neighbourhood Shop! Stop by for a light lunch and refreshments while we chat about the benefits of hosting a session with us, what you’d like to see or do in the Shop, and more.