This first Sunday of June, CCA is hosting drop-in workshops in Park Baile for youth and families. These workshops focus on Blackness and Indigenous identity in the built environment and everyday life. Converging at the intersection of space and identity, the activities are an opportunity for participants to explore their cultural heritages as well as how it can validate their experiences within the world around them.

How does your block sustain community connections? Vanessa Owusu-Piameng invites you to reflect on the changes around your neighbourhood and how it impacts your community and rituals.

How do you slow down? What do you see? Niki Mulder prompts you to take a moment to identify hidden gems in your environment through an observational zine making session.

Join us anytime from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., on the lawn in front of CCA’s entrance, for printing, collage and writing workshops suitable for children 7 years old and older. In case of rain, the activities will be moved inside the museum to the Shaughnessy house.

Niki Mulder is from the Nisga’a Nation in British Columbia. She is the Indigenous Consultant and Programmer Indigenous Communities at the CCA. She has a master’s degree in fine arts from Concordia University. She is a curator, educator, and programmer. Over the years Niki has worked at the Banff Centre for the Art’s and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. She is currently the Program Coordinator at the Native Women’s Shelter of Montréal.

Vanessa Owusu-Piameng, Black Communities Programmer at CCA, is a Ghanian-Canadian master’s student at Carleton University, raised in Parc-Extension, specializing in cultural communication, popular music, black music, and social justice. She has worked as a Creative Director for the Inclusion and Diversity Committee, Department of Social Work at Carleton.

These workshops are part of CCA’s initiative started in spring 2022, to increase engagement and accessibility of architecture education to members of the BIPOC community through public programming. To learn more about these Co-Created Community Workshops for Indigenous and Black Youth, please email public@cca.qc.ca.