Virtual Two Spirit Regalia Skills Program – Registration

Week 1: Two Spirit Roles, Gifts, History and Identity

• Introductions
• Healthy Spirituality, Community and Wellness
• Navigating Pan-Indigenous and Western Views
• Peer-led Narratives for Two-Spirit Futurisms and World-Building

Week 2: Planning and Designing Your Regalia Colouring Book

• Orientation to Indigenous and Western Colour Theory
• Powwow Dance Styles
• Motif Exploration

Week 3: Visioning a Two Spirit Regalia

• Vision-boarding with Pinterest, Digital Scrapbooking
• Planning your designs using Spirit and Research
• Connecting our Histories and Nationhood to a Two-Spirit Fluidity
• Activity: Make your own rabbit fur pom-pom

Week 4: Building Your Two-Spirit Bundle

• Medicine Teachings
• Activity: Make Your Own Medicine Pouch
• Activity: Make Your Own Tobacco and Medicine Ties

Week 5: Sharing Circle and Virtual Gathering

• Completing our projects
• Sharing Circle, Project Feedback, and Reflections
• Celebration, Ceremony

Note about the Material Kits

You will find extra materials such as beading supplies, hide pieces, fidget toys etc. that will support you in extending your regalia-making skills.

We hope you enjoy these gifts!

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in a 5-week condensed program (1 month) of beginner structured weekly sessions where we will connect, get to know each other and work on creative beginner regalia techniques and listen to the importance of the items you are creating.

The start date is anticipated to begin on August 2, 2022 and conclude on August 30, 2022.

Time TBD: Tentative time slots are:

• 3:00 pm – 5:00:pm EST
• 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm EST
• 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST

The zoom sessions will be only made available to participants of the program, elders and CRE staff who are scheduled to be in the sessions. You will be informed if such occurrences will happen. There may be an opportunity to showcase or share our work with others, and prior to this happening, you will receive consent forms where you can choose which ways you would like to be represented and whether you want your work to be shared. 

We know it is important for many reasons for participants’ identities to be protected and kept safe. We ask that you respect each individual, preferred name, and any other way people choose to identify themselves. 

The priority for the program is to create a sense of community, networking opportunities, crafting skills, and a supportive space where we can collectively talk about regalia, teachings, queerness, identity and culture. 

We ask for your mailing address to send you the supplies to participate in the program. This information will be used to ship your materials package. You are welcome to opt-out for any reason.  All packages will have neutral information on the outside and will say from Canadian Roots Exchange. If for any reason, you are unable to give out your home address but would still like to receive the supplies, please let us know and we will do our best to make accommodations.

Before beginning the program we would like to know a bit more about you and how to support you as best as we can during your participation in the 5 weeks of programming. The form begins with basic demographic questions that help us run our program, and will help us run future programming. We have made efforts not to ask anything more than is required and some questions have a “prefer not to answer” section.

We are currently only able to register 15 applicants for this cycle of programming, even though we would love to connect and offer this to everyone who applies. We will only be able to select candidates who fit the eligibility criteria at this time. If you are selected, you will receive an email at the email address you provided for you to confirm your registration at the beginning of October. Visit the CRE Instagram account for updates and more information on our upcoming events, workshops and programs!