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Virtual Two Spirit Regalia Skills Program – Registration

About the Beginner Two Spirit Regalia Skills Program

The Virtual Two Spirit Regalia Skills Program is a five-week series of peer-led virtual workshops for queer-Indigenous and Two Spirit youth aged 16-29 to engage with regalia making and traditional arts. We developed this program to provide an inclusive space for Two Spirit youth to access culture, ceremony and regalia skills; prioritizing fluidity, futurity and freedom. Our programs are currently being facilitated online via zoom to promote a sense of community and connection through the COVID-19 pandemic.

What to expect

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!

Timeline

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

Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure

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.

Register today!

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.

This survey will take you 10-20 minutes to complete.

For questions, please get in touch with Amanda amanda@canadianroots.ca

We appreciate your time and energy in completing this survey – The Culture and Wellness Team

Amanda Amour-Lynx – Indigenous Wellness Specialist

  • This does not need to be your “Legal” name.
  • Program Accessibility & Supports

    These sessions will be happening on a weekly basis over Zoom/video call. It will be interactive in nature, with the opportunity to network and build trusting relationships at your own pace. Since the Beginner Two Spirit Regalia Skills Program is online, some access supports may look a little different for us, but there are many tools and resources available that can make this experience easier for you. This section is for us to listen and understand how we can best accommodate your needs so you can feel comfortable during our programming. These questions the selection of program participants.
  • Program Subject Matter Disclaimer

    Because of the nature of reconnecting to identity, the impacts that colonialism has on our Indigenous identity as well as our LGBT identity, there may be times when subject matter may be sensitive and bring about some emotions. The Beginner 2S Regalia Skills Program’s primary focus is designed to engage our bodies in crafting and in material activities, with light socialisation. There will be some elements of gender fluid cultural teachings and storytelling, intended to nourish our bodies, minds and spirit. The following questions will not affect the selection of program participants.
  • Program Schedule

  • Thank you for participating in this online survey to assess the reach of our activities. CRE will share the results of this survey in a highly aggregated report (no unique identification) to our program funder.
    Your participation in this survey is voluntary. You may refuse to take part in this survey, skip questions or exit the survey at any time without penalty.
    You will receive no benefits from participating in this online survey, but your responses will help us improve the program. There are no foreseeable risks involved in participating in this online survey..
    If you feel you have not been treated according to the descriptions in this statement, or that your rights as a an evaluation participant have not been honored during the course of this program, or you have any questions, concerns, or complaints that you wish to address, please contact CRE’s Privacy Officer James Arruda at james@canadianroots.ca.
    You may print a copy of this consent for your records. Clicking on the “Agree” button indicates that: You have read the above statement; You voluntarily agree to participate.

This survey will take you 10-20 minutes to complete.

For questions, please get in touch with Amanda amanda@canadianroots.ca

We appreciate your time and energy in completing this survey – The Culture and Wellness Team

Amanda Amour-Lynx – Indigenous Wellness Specialist

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