We educate young womyn on relevant histories that pertains to our fluid identities. We use various forms of arts as an expressive outlet to share what we’ve learned.

Vision

Womynation seek to foster an environment that empowers young womyn with tools for self expression, reflection, and positive exploration of self identity.

Goals

• Reclaiming our identities and our neighbourhoods

• Finding value and self-worth

• Inspire community engagement

• skill-sharing

• Developing critical thinking/analysis

• Use art making as a vehicle for social change

• Increase the participation of young womyn in the arts as well as demonstrating the importance of utilizing art as a creative outlet

• Increase the awareness of the disparities of womyn of colour in the arts, media, television, politics as well as their exclusive from mainstream literature and academia

• Provide meaningful opportunities for engagement in a program pertaining to our interests; a program that they can take an active part of molding to grow with them

• Provide a safe space to talk about any issue

• Encourage the personal development and growth

• Be accessible, (all expenses covered; tokens, food, supplies, facilitators, transportation, babysitting) there are no barriers to learning and growth

Workshops

Flow/Lines

Flowlines is about exploring process, process as art and poetry as thought process. In this workshop our artists learn the foundations of different types of poetry and different types of art-making (sustainable and cheap) where you start from the ground up with materials… and the narratives that come out of that. The art-making will include found objects, priming a painting, egg tempura and other forms of process art. This workshop series is all about collaborating with the process and translating this into your daily practice. The poetry explored will include Haikus, spoken word and sensory poems.

Photovoyce

Photovoyce is about finding relevant truth/a truth in your life and capturing it visually. In this workshop, our artists learn and reflect on their identities and what is true within the context of their lives. Our artists get the opportunity to have their photographs taken in a studio by a professional photographer. Our artists also study other photovoyce artwork and undergo anti-oppression workshops. The object of this workshop is to develop a better understanding of photography and the surrounding world.