Mending Station with Jocelyn Kagige
Sunday, October 18, 2026
10 AM - 1 PM
FREE
Jocelyn Kagige is the owner and founder of Minwaate Designs and in her various roles supporting community wellness and Indigenous fashion, she has fostered sustainable connections between creative practice and community wellbeing that continues to positively impact our community. Kagige’s Mending Station is in relation to both her own design practice and community wellness work. Kagige will be leading a group of 15 participants in creating their own medicine bundles informed by her Anishnaabe Teachings while utilizing repurposed textiles.
Participants will also be provided the opportunity to create drum bags and are welcome to bring to their drums. Participants are also welcome to bring in their own garments and textiles for this workshop.
This Mending Station engages textile mending and repurposing as both an act of environmental care and as a commitment to personal and community wellbeing informed by Anishnaabe teachings.
The Mending Station, generously funded by TD Friends of the Environment, is an Indigenous-led, public-facing repair and learning hub that centres garment mending as both a creative and sustainable practice. Each session will welcome up to 15 participants and is led by an invited textile artist or designer who brings their own practice, knowledge, and approach to repair into the space. What was originally conceived by Raven Spiratos as an extension of Eye of the Earth, a solo exhibition by Samuel Nnorom, has now become an extension of the Museum’s upcoming exhibition: Always in Fashion. This exhibition, curated by Amber-Dawn Bear Robe, is an engaging exploration of Indigenous design languages and their transformative impacts on the fashion landscape.
This program was generously funded by TD Canada.
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