This reflective, hands-on workshop invites you to reconnect with your creativity, clarity, and care.
Through guided journaling and simple paper-based prototyping, you’ll explore a personal story or challenge and bring it to life — no design experience needed. Slow down, shift perspective, and leave with something meaningful in your hands.
Saturday, September 13th
1 PM–3:30 PM Instructor:
Renn Scott, Designer
Cost: $65 (sliding scale available)
$45 Supported Rate $85 Pay it Forward
Location: Studio 301 - CoWork
Discover the craft and power of humour in this engaging, interactive workshop. We'll explore why jokes work (and why they sometimes fall flat), and unpack the essential elements of joke writing—from timing and structure to tone and delivery.
More than just laughs, this session is about tapping into your own authentic sense of humour and understanding how it can enhance your communication in everyday life, relationships, and even business. Whether you're looking to sharpen your wit, build confidence, or just bring more levity into your world, this workshop offers practical tools and creative exercises to help you access and express your funny side with purpose.
Tuesday, September 16th from 7 PM–9 PM.
Instructor: Jacob Duarte-Spiel
Cost: $30
Location: Studio 301 - CoWork
Dive into the playful world of ink as you explore mark making techniques, embrace happy accidents, and experiment with expressive styles. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll try a variety of approaches and build toward creating a finished, loose abstract sketch. No pressue - just curiosity, creativity and flow.
Wednesday, September 17th from 7 PM–9 PM
Instructor: Matt Dampier
Cost: $40 Materials Provided
Location: Studio 301–CoWork
As the days grow shorter and seasons shift, Light Workers invites you to pause and reflect on the light within you—and the ways you share it with others. In this therapeutic art workshop, we’ll come together to hand-paint garden lanterns as symbolic reminders of personal resilience, hope, and generosity. Through gentle guidance, conversation, and creative expression, you'll create a beautiful lantern to carry forward into the darker months—a beacon of the light you bring to the world.
No art experience needed. Just bring your spirit and your stories.
Thursday, September 18th | 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Instructor: Dawn Grant, Artist
Cost: $45 | $35 (Supported Rate)
Location: Studio 301 - CoWork
Gelli printing is a versatile, accessible printmaking process. Whether you're new to gelli printing or already have experience, come explore the possibilities of this medium with printmaker Beverly Allen. Have fun producing your own original prints.
Saturday, September 20th
1 PM–3:30 PM
Instructor:
Beverly Allen
Cost: $45. Location: Studio 301 - CoWork
In this workshop I will lay out the basics of repairing and refinishing wood furniture. You will learn how to make simple repairs, identity different types of wood furniture (veneer, solid wood, and particle board). And lastly will guide you through the dense and sometimes contradictory lexicon or finishing methods and products with a focus on the best products for the environment.
Saturday, September 20th
1 PM –3:30 PM
Instructor: Blake McColl
Cost: $25 (suggested price or P.W.Y.C.)
Location: Studio SH145
Make your own original silk scarf with leaves, flowers and plant materials. Find out about this recently popular method based on time honoured techniques while creating a gorgeous scarf.
Sunday, September 21st from 1 PM–3:30 PM Instructor: Beverly Allen
Cost: $95
Location: Studio 301 - CoWork
Join us for a fun, beginner-friendly session where you’ll learn to make bold, expressive marks to capture poses, muscles, and movement—all from a live model! No experience needed, just bring your curiosity and creativity and Expressive Figurative Artist, Karen Klucowicz will instruct & guide you. Bring your drawings to life!
Tuesday September 23 from 7 PM - 9 PM Instructor: Karen Klucowicz
Cost: $25 | Includes Life Model + Materials
Location: Studio: Cowork Studio 301
What is it that catches your eye?! Spend some time looking at things a little differently as we tour the Cotton Factory building and surroundings, sketching from observation as we go. All levels, guidance provided (so don't be afraid to try even if you've never sketched before!).
Saturday, September 27th
1 PM - 3:30 PM
Instructor: Corine Van Hoeve
Cost: $50 | Materials included (feel free to bring your own as well)
Location: Start in CoWork Studio 311 and move through the Cotton Factory
Make paper. with recycled paper, plants, flowers, yarn, fabric. See the magic happen!
Saturday, September 27 Session A 10 AM to 12 PM
Session B: 2 PM - 4 PM
Instructor: Susan Barton-Tait
Cost: $50 | Materials Included
Location: CoWork, Studio 301
Discover the magic of combining watercolour art with natural flower dyes and plants!
Explore the art of flower pounding and pressing to extract natural colours, along with
expressive watercolour methods to produce nature-inspired art pieces on paper.
Sunday, September 28 10 AM - 12 PM Instructor: Janice Kovar
Cost: $25 | Materials provided
Location: CoWork - Studio 301
Participants will learn the principles of photography by making their own miniature camera obscura.
Experimenting with analogue magic they will capture what they see through their camera obscura on a photo walk with their phone, and print their favourite photograph to take home.
Sunday, September 28 10 AM - 12 PM Instructor: Natalie Hunter
Cost: $50 | Materials Included,
Sliding Scale Available
Location: CoWork Studio 311
Take a tour of our visiting exhibition from China featuring Silk Painted Tapestries created by the women of Beizhen, China and then try your hand at the ancient technique of Chinese Brush Painting and take home your own tapestry.
Saturday, September 27th from 1:00–4:30. Instructor: Karen Logan
Cost: $45 | Materials Included
Location: CoWork Studio 301
This workshop will encourage participants to observe nature more closely and will enable participants to learn a range of skills relating to botanical drawing. Students will be given step-by-step instructions on how to progress through botanical drawing project using graphite and pencil. The workshop is best suited to students with some drawing experience and an interest in botanical art.
Sunday, September 20th 1 PM from 4:30 PM
Instructor: Karen Logan
Cost: $35
Materials List Provided on Registration
Location: Studio 301 CoWork
Smell something, feel everything. Join us for a hands-on-candle making workshop where scent meets memory. Through blindfolded scent exploration, we'll dive into how fragrance connects to seasons, colours, and emotion. You'll blend your own signature scents, add beautiful botanicals, and pour two custom candles - complete with creative labels inspired by your senses and stories
Sunday, September 28 from 12 PM - 2 PM and 3 PM - 5 PM
Instructor: Ashley Shortall
Cost: $50 | Materials Included
Location: Studio SH246
This is not your average paint party! Instead of copying a step-by-step image, you will be guided in order to create a meaningful piece of art that reflects an emotion, season, experience, or idea that’s personal to you. Learn how to mix colours and explore acrylic painting techniques that bring your unique concept to life on canvas.
Saturday September 27 3 PM - 5 PM
Instructor:
Karen Klucowicz
Cost: $45 | Materials Included
Location: Cowork Studio 305
Hang out, Talk, Network,
Bring a Craft or bring along a project you are working on. Food Vendors will be present.
Saturday September 27th
7 PM - 11 PM
Cost $10
Some Materials Supplied (bring along a pair of scissors + glue stick + spare magazines
Location: Cowork Studio 301
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