Monday Art Group brewing new experiments 

We will be working with Tel-Talk, an intervention project taking place at a telephone booth near you. On June 13th, 2012 we will be decorating a phone booth in the Junction to coincide with the opening of the Tel-Talk exhibit at the Telephone Booth Gallery. Poetry readings are planned alongside the intervention.

The MAG chose a name last night for our installation which is quickly albeit laboriously taking shape:
The Art of Conversation

More details coming soon!

New Research Project

We have started work on a new research project called Women's Stories: Aging, Disability and Homelessness. The Red Wagon Collective has received a small grant to do arts based research in the form of a photo-voice project. We will be working with women from Evangeline and Mainstay Housing to discuss issues of precarious housing. Is a house four walls and a roof, or is it somewhere to live? How does precarious housing affect bodies? How does it impact the aging process? How does aging impact how home is understood? How do bodies fit within the shelter system as they age? What challenges are faced?

We will be involved in a group dialogical and creative process of discussion and production of photographs. We will hopefully end up with a suite of images with text that we can put to use in discussion with housing providers, politicians, community people, and health care practitioners - and anyone else whose interested.

We put out a call to our neighbours for donations of digital camera's (that work) and have received four so far. Thanks Junction folks!

A quilt we all made for a new mother - 

enough

good morning gentle reader. we are thinking about the idea of enough. when we need to say ENOUGH (yes - shout it out), when we need to say it's not enough... How much icing do you want on that cookie? How many cookies do you want? Why is someone else doling things out.... How do they know how hungry I am and what nourishes me... it becomes too arduous. Be thankful for the cookie that has not quite enough icing, and for the coat that does not quite fit...
We say enough.
Last night we sat on the floor surrounded with scraps of crochet and knitting, wilding it all into a surprise for the community.... part of saying enough.... watch out...