Upcoming Programs & Events

"For me, the crux of music is to find your own voice. You put yourself and your spirit into it. If you do, we'll feel you" --Linda Carvery. Join Linda Carvery, award-winning blues and gospel singer for a joyful healing singing workshop to chase the winter blues. Linda will offer exercises to help you find your voice, and bring yourself to the songs. We're thrilled to have Linda share a part of her one-act play "Watch over Me," a tender story of resilience told through humour and song. Linda will be supported by facilitator and poet, Nanci Lee on facilitation design and delivery for the workshop.

A supportive, peer-led weekend for playing, play-testing, and leading role-playing games - beginners are more than welcome! Some of the themes we explore together: how to make the move from player to game leader; how to build inclusion and community; and how to support diversity, disability, and mental health through Roleplaying Games.

On Feb 29th 7:00 pm Atlantic Time Tatamagouche Centre and Women of First Light will welcome the Cassandra Ferrera and Jason Patten, from Centre for Ethical Land Transition (CELT) to this first of several webinars exploring the practical process of land rematriation. CELT has supported organizations and their communities in culturally-grounded land transitions (land back). Because they have accompanied a number of these processes in the United States including with Indigenous and BIPOC communities, they can help us to see patterns, principles and things to consider in our journey.

Learn about creating safe space for co-facilitators and participants during workshops, gatherings, board meetings, community events, etc. Developing confidence in holding uncomfortable conversations as they arise in a caring and respectful way in any setting.

Please join Elvira Prado Robles, she grew up in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico where she discovered her love of food and cooking from her grandmother who ran a Cantina for local construction workers. She attended gastronomy school close to home before moving to Spain in 2012 to continue her studies. In 2019 Elvira came to Antigonish in hopes to share authentic Mexican cuisine with Nova Scotians.

You will also enjoy the food at the end and will have opportunity to make some new friends, share your food stories and culture as well.

Please join Funke - Aderinokun Taiwo to learn about Nigerian cuisine, food stories and culture.

Nigerian cuisine brings together a fusion of culture as unique spices, meats, and ingredients. Nigeria has a food culture rich in flavors, agriculture, spices native to the land, and undeniable passion.

You will also enjoy the food at the end and will have opportunity to make some new friends, share your food stories and culture as well.

Our August community conversation is an opportunity to learn more about what is happening at Tatamagouche Centre, and to connect with members, partners and friends. We will share what is happening around Rematriation, shared leadership, and how our learning programs support our journey and our diverse communities.

Join us for an evening of delicious locally-sourced meal, entertainment, and drink (non alcoholic). All of our ingredients are purchased from hard working local farmers who take pride in providing top notch pesticide free food. We are grateful for local vendors and everything they supply us with.

Please join Alia to learn about Middle Eastern cuisine, food stories and culture. You will have fun learning how to cook traditional Stuffed Grape Leaves(Dolmas), Chicken shawarma with rice and salad, and of course traditional Lebanese Baklava.

This project is focused on righting and healing our relations with land, food and one another across varied lived experience with “land or homeland,” dispossession, food justice and sovereignty while demonstrating a nourishing, loving connected community of communities around land and the local food system.

Join Yoli's cooking class on July 16th from 17h00 to 20h00 at the Tatamagouche Centre and make a delicious and traditional Hungarian meal!

You will have fun learning with Hina Shehzadi and Ellaheen how to cook traditional Pakistani dishes such as chicken curry, chickpeas masala and Basmati rice with south Asian spices. You will also enjoy the food at the end and will have opportunity to make some new friends and learn about Pakistani food culture & stories.

On Saturday, June 3rd, we invite you to our Annual Gathering of Members at beautiful Tatamagouche Centre. Come join us for a complimentary lunch at noon. Weather permitting, we hope to be outside for the afternoon. Gathering, gardening, sharing.

Bring your gloves, your transplants, your pruners, rakes and shovels! We're going to work on our composting system, plant, tidy up the grounds, dig into that lovely soil.

On Friday June 2nd, we plan to have some learning, dialogue and connecting. We are beginning a strategic visioning process and look forward to some good dialogue about your dreams for Tatamagouche Centre. We will share updates on our green retrofit and other exciting projects. As always, we will review our financial situation and auditor’s report.

Spring is a glorious season for retreat, with Earth inviting you into rebirth and awakening. We welcome all those who seek quiet, both those who may be curious about contemplation and those who are more seasoned practitioners.

Reflecting on our relationship with life and death. Learning about difficult conversations and feeling the sacredness of death itself. We see opportunities to claim final moments of intimacy in sacred space during times that are often difficult and to recognize the healing power of ceremony, and the practice of rituals for the different stages, before and after death.

Our free March community conversation is an opportunity to share strategies for loving accountability and how we construct safety in workshops and spaces. We will share some of the strategies used at the Centre. Forget calling out, even calling in. How do we implicate ourselves in these dynamics in ways that are accountable and clear yet generative enough to stay in right relation? We will be offering a fuller program around this by our friends at New Leaf in the Spring-Summer. Meanwhile, come and join us for the sharing!

Join us to feed the spirit of winter and honor the indigenous teachings. The theme is sharing histories, ceremonies of grief and loss typical of winter. The indigenous, settler, mixed-background participants will explore their histories, identities and ceremonies or processes for winter/ grief/loss.

Join facilitator Joël Jones in community as she shares her Personal-Community Care Approach/Framework. This workshop is a place to share our knowing and come together as peers in community to share our stories of resistance, share and learn techniques for staying healthy and recognizing when we need support, and discussing innovative ways to find solutions to our challenges.

Join Dr. Lynn Jones and Curtis Wiley, leaders with Down the Marsh Community Land Trust and Upper Hammonds Plains Community Land Trust as they share the exciting developments of two Black-led Community Land Trusts here in Mik’maki. Community land trusts are community organizations that hold land and property in long term trust for affordable housing and community purpose.

A supportive, peer-led weekend to try playing and leading games for the first time. Some of the themes we explore together: how to make the move from player to game leader; how to build inclusion and community; and how to support diversity, disability, and mental health through Roleplaying Games.

In 2020, we had a practice of community conversations to have open dialogue around emerging issues. We are pleased to invite you this winter. Our January conversation is about distributed leadership. We are beginning at the staff level with a co-Directorship. How can we do that well? Beyond that, how can we best draw on our diverse talents and lived experience? Ensure equity as we experiment and play with power differently?