The kitchen table is where some of the best learning occurs. When we gather with friends and family around food and tea, we relax into easy conversation, lending to a safe space for dialogue and knowledge sharing.

Métis Kitchen Table Theory is the practice of learning through sharing around a kitchen table while eating, drinking, and making from an Indigenous (and specifically Métis) worldview. This practice is not expressly Métis – or even Indigenous – as many non-Indigenous communities gather in similar ways. However, Métis Kitchen Table talks are focused in Métis methodologies, and work from Métis worldviews.

Please join Cathy Mattes and Sherry Farrell Racette in a discussion about methodologies of making on March 24, 2019 at 1pm. They will lead us in a conversation about their practices and the ways in which Indigenous ways of knowing are activated through their processes of working. This interactive conversation will ask participants to share their own experiences of working within Indigenous frameworks. All are welcome to participate and are also welcomed to bring beading/sewing/tufting/etc to work on during the event.