Mural Engagement - We are Still Here

Weekly schedule

About this program

Britannia turned 50 this year! Join three artists that will commemorate the accomplishments and intentions for the future of Britannia CC. Please use this link to register: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQAAAAAAAAAAAAN__p9YObBUMzlFTU9FNDhHTU5CRE1QTEhVUjVNUkc4US4u&origin=QRCode Day 1: The program opens by grounding participants in the history of the place they share. Facilitators lead a land acknowledgement and walk the group through fifty years of Britannia's story using archival photographs, cultural event records, and personal images from the Corn Festival and the community garden. Participants then create an abstract colour palette representing their mood, identity, or an emotion connected to community, with no skill required and no wrong answer. This warm-up loosens the hand before any technical expectations are introduced. Day 2: Participants turn inward. The central question is simple and direct: Who am I? What matters to me? (discussion on values, identity wheel exercise) - collage and paint exercise. Day 3: Having explored who they are individually, participants discover what they share, through elder stories, Indigenous knowledge, and intergenerational translation. One Elder or long-time community member is welcomed with care and protocol to share their memories of Britannia. A celebration they attended, a garden they helped plant, a moment when the community came together or had to fight for something. Youth receive these stories by drawing illustrated notes rather than writing, keeping the body and the imagination engaged. Day 4: The collective vision takes shape. The mural design is presented, participants discuss on symbols, imagery, words (values, sentences) that could be represented in each circle.