What does freedom feel like when you reclaim your place in the waves?

For Black History Month, we dive into Freedom Swell (1 hour), a story of Black youth in North Preston, NS, who are redefining what it means to belong in outdoor spaces through surfing and resistance.

Together, we’ll celebrate stories of empowerment and brainstorm how we can each help break barriers in recreation and outdoor spaces.

Celebrate African Heritage Month with a vibrant, drop-in cultural experience exploring Bahamian traditions—Junkanoo and Rake ’n’ Scrape. Enjoy music, art, and food through sound, taste, and touch. All ages welcome for an immersive, flexible space of joy, pride, and connection.

CANCELLED. This session will be rescheduled at a later date: This session is built around the idea of affirmations. Finding words that will lift up your day. Using poems and writings from various artists or from yourself you will create stamped ring magic charms that you can wear daily to remind  you that the greatest love is found within.  

I’thandi Munro is an award winning dancer, performer, visual artist and educator, who has reached International recognition. She incorporates her lived experiences of her own cultural understanding within her artwork. She has a double major in Photography + Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing from NSCAD University. Munro has been facilitating within dance studios, Halifax Regional Arts, artist centers, and community programs for over a decade. Munro continuously seeks to learn new ways of making, teaching, collaborating, and continues to educate herself in a multitude of techniques. She has spent her entire life pursuing art but dancing is the constant base of creating throughout her professional career.

Movement is at her core of making. Munro found herself naturally drawn to the research behind improv and freestyle dance. She uses the representation of line and cultural lineage as underlying concepts in her art. Her work has become an ever-changing body of work that can be explored and realized in many different ways. Munro is the founder of Drifted Collective, A co-founder of Scotian: The Collective. She has collaborated with many professional dance and theatre companies primarily based out of Mi'kma'ki and the Atlantic regions such as The Woods Professional Hip Hop Company, Mocean Dance, Kinetic, Rooted Dance (Votive) Nestutasi Story Telling, Home Economics Collective, and KasheDance.

This session invites participants to explore their own unique stories through creativity, reflection, and discovery. Sessions begin with an engaging warm-up, followed by guided exercises where participants map out personal experiences through storytelling.

Andre Fenton is an award-winning African Nova Scotian writer, performer, and arts educator who has represented Halifax at seven national spoken word festivals across Canada. He had founded The Ink Collective in 2025, a program series to help Black writers find their path in the publishing industry. He is the 2023 recipient of the Portia White Protege Award and a 2022 recipient of an Emerging Artist Recognition Award from Creative NS Awards. Andre is the author of three young adult fiction novels, Worthy of Love. ANNAKA, which was the 2022 recipient of The Community & Place Award from Digitally Lit, and The Summer Between Us, which won Gold in The Coast’s 2022 Best Of Awards. Andre has facilitated writing and performance workshops in over 100 classrooms across Nova Scotia. He is currently screenwriting the film adaptation of his novel, ANNAKA that is being produced by Fine Devils Films. Andre is based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

What happens when access to land and movement is controlled?

In The Pass System (51 mins), we uncover a hidden part of Canadian history. The system that restricted Indigenous peoples’ movement for over 60 years. Together, we’ll discuss how these policies echo in today’s recreation systems and what Indigenous freedom of movement and expression looks like today.

Who gets access to clean, safe, and joyful spaces?

Our first Media Meet Up session dives into environmental racism and the power of community through There’s Something in the Water (73mins). This documentary exposing how pollution and industrial planning have impacted Black and Mi’kmaq communities in Nova Scotia.

We’ll explore how environmental justice connects to recreation and what it means to support communities leading the fight for change.

All your hard work comes to life as you prepare and print your final versions. We’ll print a small, numbered, edition of your print and enjoy the fact that each is unique in its own way.

Latispànica Cultural Association is back to teach us how to make another delicious traditional recipe!  Join us for an afternoon of learning and cooking with your neighbours.

Celebrate the last week of Fall Program 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!

Cut, collage, and craft your own zine while learning about the power of zines in activism and community-building. All materials provided, no experience needed. Hosted by artist and climate educator Ive Velikova.

Exploring proper press setup, the critical role of correct pressure, ink preparation and inking the block. Then we will print test prints and examine them, discussing what changes to consider before final prints.

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 Aaron at the Neighbourhood Shop to learn how to play the game of Waltes with neighbours, friends, or family.  

Aaron is from Eskasoni First Nation in Cape Breton.

The Waltes board illustration above is from our Spring 2022 program cover illustration by Shannon Long.

Spanning more than a decade, Yintah follows Howilhkat Freda Huson, Sleydo’ Molly Wickham, and their Wet’suwet’en Nation as they reoccupy and protect their ancestral lands from the Canadian government and some of the largest fossil fuel companies on Earth. Yintah (meaning "land" in Wet’suwet’en) is a documentary about Indigenous sovereignty, resistance, and the struggle to defend unceded territory from colonial industry. 

Join co-hosts Larissa and Megan for a screening of this powerful documentary, followed by an open conversation about Indigenous land rights and modern-day colonialism through resource extraction and environmental racism. Please note: The documentary is rated R and contains scenes of violence. Image: CC BY 2.0 Unist'ot'en Camp

RESCHEDULED FROM OCTOBER 29: Join Bryan Blue (Bear) at the Neighbourhood Shop for a sharing circle as we discuss, learn, and share some teachings of the Sweat Lodge Ceremony. Our ways have deep historical significance that support on-going community wellness.

BYOL! Bring Your Own Loom (if you have one, otherwise you can borrow one!) Join us in learning some weaving basics on a frame loom with Ashley-Rose. We will prepare our looms for weaving, learn fun weaving techniques and make our own wall hanging.

Let’s walk to thirteen Mi’kmaq communities without leaving the North End! Bring your smart watches (or borrow a pedometer from our limited supply) for this active learning experience.

We will start or continue carving the blocks, discuss how to avoid & deal with slips and accidents, and how to create textures, patterns, as well as how to achieve tones and shading, volume, and perspective.

SESSION CANCELLED: Join Deanna and Natalie to create unique, monoprinted bookmarks using local botanical plant matter. Materials will be provided, and participants are welcome to bring any plants that inspire them.

Masks required at this session. 

Curious about 3D printing? In this beginner-friendly workshop, discover how it works and the basics to get started. From tiny parts to full-scale buildings, grow your knowledge, spark ideas, and open new creative possibilities.

In her award-winning documentary, director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril joins a new tech-savvy generation of Inuit as they campaign to challenge long-established perceptions of seal hunting. Armed with social media and their own sense of humour and justice, this group is bringing its own voice into the conversation and presenting themselves to the world as a modern people in dire need of a sustainable economy. 

We invite you to join us for a screening of this powerful documentary, followed by an open conversation about food security, environmental stewardship, and traditional living.

Join us at the neighborhood shop to finish up your scrappy sewing projects or just drop in and do a little sewing!

Masks required at this session. 

Join us at Circulate for a light experiential tour and discover a new community sauna space. Together we will discuss and learn more about the positive health impacts of cultural communal bathing practices.

We’ve got lots of scrap fabric that is itching to be used, and Caitlin has some creative ideas for what we can turn them into. Join our sewing party and make some handy everyday items!

Masks required at this session. 

Do you use pre-written land acknowledgements in your work? Have you been interested in writing your own land acknowledgment but weren’t sure where to start? Come learn about the importance of land acknowledgments. All are welcome to attend and reflect on their unique roles as treaty people living on treaty lands. Come learn the who, what, when, where, and why and have the chance to create your own land acknowledgment.    

Session host Tammy Mudge is from Glooscap First Nation and is Every One Every Day’s Co-Director of Strategy. 

We’ll discuss block materials and pros and cons, the tools, safety, drawing (and positive and negative space), transferring images to the block, and different ways to remove material for different effects (cutting tools, abrasives, rotary tools).

Learn the basics of rainwater harvesting while helping build a collector for a community garden. Gain DIY skills, explore simple sustainable design, and be part of creating a system that will keep the garden thriving all season long.

This Halloween, come by the Neighbourhood Shop for a special screening of Hocus Pocus! Settle in with your neighbours, enjoy the cozy atmosphere, and watch this classic spooky-season favourite together on the big screen.

Have you ever wanted to try woodworking? Join us at the Neighbourhood Shop to help build a new community workbench. Learn skills, meet great people, and leave your mark on a space that will serve everyone for years.

We’re learning Argentinian Tango! We’ll get into the basics of partnering, learn about the music and come away with a few new steps to break out on the dance floor. We can’t wait to see you there!

Let’s walk to thirteen Mi’kmaq communities without leaving the North End! Bring your smart watches (or borrow a pedometer from our limited supply) for this active learning experience.