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Landing Workshop on March 29th

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Landing

Free visual and physical creation workshop
March 29, 2025 from 10 am – 1 pm
The Registry Theatre – 122 Frederick St., Kitchener, ON

Join us for this exciting artistic exploration in visual and physical creation, facilitated by Vanguardia Dance Projects and Aanmitaagzi! Get ready to move and tap into a new way of creating, brush up on your existing skills, and develop new abilities in creation.

Landing is a workshop aimed at exploring and investigating the relationship between place, land, and our own landscapes. We will engage in creating small dances inspired by big questions: What are we moved by? How do we celebrate the multidimensionality of who we are and the multitude of ways we express ourselves?

This workshop activity is being hosted as part of the presentation of the dance theatre piece CONVERSATIONS: Hidden Stories, presented by MT Space as part of their 24-25 season. Get the chance to meet the artists behind the work and discover how the work was created.

The world premiere of CONVERSATIONS: Hidden Stories runs from March 27-30, 2025 at The Registry Theatre.

For more information, please contact MT Space or visit the workshop event page on Facebook.

About MT Space:

Founded in 2004 by Lebanese-Canadian director, actor, and dancer Majdi Bou-Matar, MT Space (Multicultural Theatre Space) is a platform for all artists that have felt marginalized, racialized, and displaced. Centralizing marginalized and racialized artists and stories, it was created to fill what seems to be a great void in a community of many different peoples.

For the past seventeen years, MT Space has been fulfilling its mandate by creating, producing, touring, and presenting artistic work that reflects Canada’s cultural diversity. Since 2004, MT Space has become a conduit for internationally trained immigrants and newcomer professionals across all disciplines. It has grown from being a company that produces one show every year to an organization that brings culturally and socially relevant work from across the country and around the world to our community of Kitchener-Waterloo. MT Space challenges the preconceptions of theatre to create, produce, and present work that is accessible and affordable to low-income families while creating a space for Indigenous, immigrant, refugee, and marginalized voices to be heard.

Fall Workshops are Back!

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Aanmitaagzi is back with another series of community-engaged workshops for Fall 2024. The workshops are part of our current project, ALL MY R(el)ATIONS, which explores and examines the themes of relationality and resource capacity/scarcity. Through them we will be gathering, creating, and developing stories, installation materials, and performance pieces that will feed into the larger project and future presentations.

The workshops are free to attend, and no experience is necessary. All ages are welcome.

2024 FALL WORKSHOP SERIES

Movement Class with Penny Couchie
Mondays & Wednesdays from 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Contemporary dance and movement explorations to unleash our power and creativity. For movers of all ages and abilities.

Written & Visual Explorations with Aanmitaagzi
Mondays & Wednesdays from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Join Aanmitaagzi’s artists in exploring the stories and themes of All My R(el)ations through semi-guided written and visual activities such as poetry, spoken word, storytelling, drawing, painting, body-mapping, embroidery, textile work, and crafts. Materials will be provided, but you can also bring your own too!

All Ages Multi-Arts with Sherry Guppy & Sid Bobb
Tuesdays from 3:30 – 5:30 pm
A multi-arts drop-in class for artists of all ages. Activities will include drawing, painting, storytelling, crafts, dance, textile work, and more! Materials will be provided.

Community Dinner
Thursdays from 5:15 pm – 6:00 pm
A time to gather and share a meal with our artists, workshop participants, and community members each week.

Pow Wow Making & Jam Night with Sid Bobb & invited guest artists
Thursdays from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Weekly drop-in making & jam sessions for all things pow wow. Bring your regalia, beadwork, or other unfinished projects to work on or bring your voice and/or an instrument for singing, drumming, and dancing! Sid Bobb and other invited guest artists will be on hand to help out and join in the fun.

For more information, please contact Sid Bobb or Penny Couchie at aanmitaagzi@gmail.com or (705) 474-2227.

2024 Winter Workshops

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Poster for the 2024 Winter Workshop series.Our weekly workshop series is back with a great set of winter workshops to keep you busy until Spring!

On Tuesdays from 3:30 – 5:30 pm we have All Ages Making with Sherry Guppy, a drop-in multi-arts creation session for artists of all ages. Materials will be provided.

On Thursdays from 3:30 – 5:30 pm we have Yoga/Dance with Animikiikwe Couchie-Waukey & Penny Couchie. A blend of yoga, movement, and dance, this workshop will help participants to build on their strengths and knowledge of their bodies, help them to unleash their creativity and power, and get everyone moving! No yoga or dance experience required.

The workshops will run from now until March 7th, and are open to people of all ages and abilities. For more information, please contact Sid or Penny at (705) 474-2227.

2023 Fall & Winter Workshop Series

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The poster for the 2023 fall and winter workshop series.

Aanmitaagzi is back with another series of community-engaged workshops for the 2023 Fall & Winter season! The workshops are part of our current project, ALL MY R(el)ATIONS, which explores and examines the themes of relationality and resource capacity/scarcity. Through them we will be gathering, creating, and developing stories, installation materials, and performance pieces that will feed into the larger project and future presentations.

The workshops are free to attend and no experience is necessary. All ages are welcome except where noted.

Click here to download a printable 2023 Fall workshop calendar.

2023 Fall & Winter Workshop Series

All Ages Making with Sherry Guppy – Tuesdays, 3:30 – 5:15 pm
A multi-arts drop-in class for artists of all ages. Materials will be provided.

Dance with Penny Couchie – Tuesdays, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Contemporary dance and movement explorations to unleash our power and creativity.

Nishinaabemwin with Blair Beaucage – Wednesdays, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Fun and easy Nishinaabemwin language classes for learners of all ages and abilities.

NOTE: The Nishinaabemwin workshops will take place at Big Medicine Studio on November 7, November 22, and December 6, and at the Garden Village Community Hall on November 15, November 29, and December 13.

Elders’ Storytelling Luncheons – Thursdays, 12:00 – 2:30 pm
Have some lunch and an extra helping of stories and conversations with local Elders and knowledge keepers every Thursday afternoon at Big Medicine Studio.

Comedic Improv with Sid Bobb & Michaela Washburn – Thursdays, 4:00 – 6:00 pm Comedic improv is a great way to release your inner storyteller and have some fun! It teaches you how to think on your feet and work collaboratively while honing your listening skills and group awareness. In this workshop, participants will engage in improv ice breakers, exercises, and games while exploring principles of play, spontaneity, and listening. This workshop is for Ages 12 and up.

Yoga & Dance with Animikiikwe Couchie-Waukey – Thursdays, 6:30 – 8:00 pm
The focus of these classes will be to build on our strengths and knowledge of our bodies, and gain freedom of motion, so that we can play and have fun. No yoga or dance experience necessary.

For more information, please contact Sid or Penny at aanmitaagzi@gmail.com or (705) 474-2227.

Fall/Winter Workshops 2022

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After what seems like forever, we are extremely excited to get back to engaging, making art, and sharing good food with community through our new Fall/Winter Workshop series! The workshops are part of our current project, ALL MY R(el)ATIONS, which explores and examines the themes of relationality and resource capacity/scarcity, and through them we will be gathering, creating, and developing stories, installation materials, and performance pieces that will be presented at Ice Follies in February 2023. The workshops are free to attend and no experience is necessary.

Workshops

Nishinaabemwin with Blair Beaucage
Fun and easy Nishinaabemwin language classes for learners of all ages and abilities.

Singing & Music Jam with Blair Beaucage & Tasheena Sarazin
Weekly drop-in jam sessions. Bring your voice and/or an instrument and join in!

Multi-Arts Kids Class
Geared towards children aged 5 – 13, the Multi-Arts Kids class will include activities such as drawing, painting, storytelling, crafts, dance, and more! Snacks are also included. 😊

Yoga & Dance with Animikiikwe Couchie-Waukey
The focus of these classes will be to build on our strengths and knowledge of our bodies, and gain freedom of motion, so that we can play and have fun. No yoga or dance experience necessary.

Elders Storytelling Luncheons
Have some lunch and an extra helping of stories and conversations with local Elders and knowledge keepers every Thursday afternoon at Big Medicine Studio.

Visual Arts with Sherry Guppy
Working in textiles, painting, harvesting, and sculptural components, participants will explore installation making for Aanmitaagzi’s latest project All My R(el)ations and the upcoming presentation at Ice Follies 2023.

Dance with Penny Couchie
Contemporary dance and movement explorations to unleash our power and creativity.

For more information, please contact Sid or Penny at aanmitaagzi@gmail.com or (705) 474-2227.

*Please note that the Yoga & Dance workshop on Wednesday and the Dance workshop on Thursday are now starting at 6:30 pm.