1:00pm - 3:00pm

The theme of Arsene Joseph Alexander Arcand’s new body of work for this year’s Indigenous Artist in Residency is centered around teachings of the moss bag. The pieces are visual interpretations of a moss bag, what we use to swaddle a baby in Indigenous traditional parenting. The stone motifs of a moss bag is a reminder to return to ôpikinasowin, meaning the act of raising children in nêhiyawêwin, the Cree language. For everything that is ceremonially significant to us, we keep it safe in a bag. This is protection from the outside world, mimicking the warmth and safety of your mother’s womb. Your body is a moss bag for your spirit. Many of the carvings are hollow inside to represent the opportunity to fill the space with something good. It represents the significance of our potential as human beings.

6:15 PM - 8:15 PM with reception to follow.

Rove with artists on this special curator led walking tour to select Works Festival exhibits!

Ticket includes: Curatorial guided tour of select Exhibits at The Works Art & Design Festival, 2 drinks and refreshments.

Gather between 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM at the Niwapahkwanin // I See Flowers When I Close My Eyes exhibit by Sharon Rose Kootenay, on Churchill Square. Look for the white umbrella. The first Rove begins at 6:30 sharp.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/roving-reception-the-works-art-design-festival-tickets-1991735772311

1:00-3:00PM (Virtual Event)

Zachary Ayotte will be in conversation with Gendai Collective about their work around alternative art economies and how arts work is a core investment in our civic structures. Finding parallels between their work and Artist Civil Service, the conversation will tease apart the importance of structural critique and collective change through artistic practice. 

Gendai is a collective based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Throughout its twenty-five-year history, Gendai has supported experimental curatorial and organizational practices, whilst creating space for East Asian artists and artists of colour. As Gendai’s newest stewards, Marsya Maharani and Petrina Ng are dedicated to building a more equitable art sector through collective research with BIPOC artists and arts workers. Using gossip as a methodology to trace the contours of institutional power, Gendai builds relationships with emerging and mid-career arts practitioners of colour to learn about current workplace dynamics in the sector. By offering peer mentorship and access to Gendai’s platform, resources, and network, they invite collaborators to support each other in pursuing non-institutional futures and imagine “off-ramps” from the linear expressway of traditional, capitalist, and institutional career progression in the arts. Gendai also participates in Guidance Council, a bi-monthly casual drop-in organized by Alexandra Hong and Peter Rahul for racialized arts workers to share stories and solicit advice from each other. Gendai has published their research in the Gossip issue of C Magazine, titled “We Should Talk: Obvious Truths About Working in the Arts.”

Register for this Virtual Event: https://www.latitude53.org/events/2026/6/27/gendai

11:00am-3:00PM

7:30PM

Experimental electronic music with Jacob Audry Taves, Will Northlich Redmond, and guests. Entry is PWYC (pay what you can).

7:30PM

The concept behind Scapes and Shapes is quite simple: pair a visual artist with a sound designer or musician, and with no prearranged agenda, they spend 20 minutes creating an impromptu work of art that complements a sound piece also composed on the spot. Entry is $5 to $15 or PWYC (pay what you can). 

7:00PM

Come early to shop for original art and then stay for popcorn and movies with the artist.

4:00-9:00PM

1:00-3:00PM

The Centre for Autism Services Alberta’s visual arts programs for children, teens, and young adults allow aspiring artists on the autism spectrum to bring their ideas to life through a variety of media. Led by instructors from the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, artists develop their skills in drawing, painting, and ceramics, and explore digital media and animation.

10:00AM-10:00PM