Baby Star Blanket Workshop - Kistehitah kimeskanām
Sat, Feb 08
|Grow Centre Cowork
A free TWO- weekend (four-day) workshop for Indigenous people living in the city of Edmonton to learn to make crib-sized star blankets
Time & Location
Feb 08, 2025, 10:00 a.m. – Mar 09, 2025, 6:00 p.m.
Grow Centre Cowork, 10516 82 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6E 2A4, Canada
Guests
About the event
This star blanket workshop will take place over two weekends: February 8-9 and March 8-9, 2025. Participants must be able to attend both weekends (all four days) and have good machine sewing skills. This class is not for beginner sewists.
Kistehitah kimeskanām (honour your journey/road) is a project arising from the identification of unmarked graves at former residential school sites across Turtle Island. It comes from a vision of a path lined with baby moccasins leading to a beautiful healing lodge. A pipe ceremony was held for the start of this project with Elder Ruth Cardinal de Ubiera in 2021. The little moccasins (maskisina), moss bags (wâspisona) and baby star blankets created as part of this project will honour the children who were sent to the schools as well as the new spirits coming into the world today.
An Elder or knowledge keeper will be joining us to share their…
