In a world where the sense of division is at an all-time high, Karim Mosna will provide a rare opportunity for participants to interview each other, and be moved by each others stories and perspectives. As an experienced journalist, broadcaster, and podcast workshop facilitator, Karim will guide participants through active listening skills, curiosity, and open-ended questioning.

Karim Mosna is a journalist, broadcaster, podcaster, and workshop facilitator. Through his radio career, he has hosted and produced multiple current affairs and interview-based programs featuring conversations with world-renowned musicians, doctors, and entrepreneurs, students, activists, and those living in encampments.

In this free, participatory art workshop, Isaac Two White Feather and Lori Gentle Eagle invite the community to learn what mental health and justice look like through an Indigenous lens. The collaborative effort will be centred around creating a ceremonial blanket to wrap around a person looking to reignite their divine spark. By sewing, painting, and patching messages of hope on this blanket, we will demonstrate that ruptures can be repaired when we care about each other.

Isaac Two White Feather is a member of the Wolf Clan from Saugeen First Nation who is now living on Treaty 3 (Cambridge, ON). After surviving a childhood disconnected from his cultural roots and enduring many overdoses in his young adulthood as a result of the aftereffects of multi-generational trauma, Two White Feather is grateful to have been given another chance to live the good life (mino-bimaadiziwin).

Lori Gentle Eagle is of French Canadian, Irish, and Scottish roots and Wise Woman ancestry. Committed to decolonization and allyship with Indigenous People for many years, in both professional and personal circles, she now grips her cane and walks proudly as an Empath with the medicine name “Gentle Eagle” gifted by Gaisheda Kheawok of the Whispering Song Teaching Lodge.