Plein air painting is about leaving the four walls of your studio behind and experiencing painting and drawing in the landscape. Join Patti Dyment at the Canmore Museum as she demonstrates her plein air painting technique. She will bring studies created in mountain landscapes this past summer to the comforts of the Canmore Museum, where...
New to Canmore? Want to learn a bit more about the community you now call home? Join the Canmore Museum during the Bow Valley Immigration Partnership's Community Week (November 7 to 13) for a guided walk through our exhibit ‘From Coal to Community’ to discover some of the stories - and the people - behind...
Plein air painting is about leaving the four walls of your studio behind and experiencing painting and drawing in the landscape. Join Patti Dyment at the Canmore Museum as she demonstrates her plein air painting technique. She will bring studies created in mountain landscapes this past summer to the comforts of the Canmore Museum, where...
Ally is a verb; allyship means action. How do you stand up for your friends, loved ones, and values? In this session, we will create a common language and use that language to describe and detail tools you can use with confidence and fall back on when things get tough. There will be exercises to...
You have most certainly heard of the Canmore Hotel, but Canmore has a long history of motels, lodges, and cabins where travelers and new arrivals took a rest or settled in. Join us as we explore the history of lodging in Canmore and the Bow Valley. We will look at photos, postcards, and other ephemera...
The community is invited to participate in a special ceremony as the Canmore Museum welcomes John Snow Jr. (Chiniki), David Bearspaw (Bearspaw), Trudy Wesley (Wesley) and Glenda Crawler (Wesley) as members of the museum's new Stoney Nakoda Advisory Circle. We will also be welcoming Tony Snow, who is joining us for a two-year Indigenous Cultural...
Do you have a rock that you have collected because it caught your eye but don’t know what it is? Bring it down to the Museum to have a professional geologist help identify it. If you don’t already have a favourite rock, you might find one among the select samples that we will have available...
As the facilitator dresses two life size mannequins with the Nakoda Sioux style traditional dresses, she integrates storytelling within cultural pedagogy. Workshop themes include historical impacts of settlement, intergenerational trauma, language and communication, beadwork and traditional dress regalia origins, song and dance, rites of passage, addictions, suicide, MMIWG, healthy relationships and parenting, grief, trauma and...
As the facilitator dresses two life size mannequins with the Nakoda Sioux style traditional dresses, she integrates storytelling within cultural pedagogy. Workshop themes include historical impacts of settlement, intergenerational trauma, language and communication, beadwork and traditional dress regalia origins, song and dance, rites of passage, addictions, suicide, MMIWG, healthy relationships and parenting, grief, trauma and...
Join Trudy Wesley, author Ne Îethka Makochî Chach, This is Our Home, and Natasha Wesley, author of Îethkaîhâ Yawabi, Counting in Stoney, for a reading of their two books followed by an animal craft activity and an animal friendship dance. Light refreshments will be served following the activity. Indigenous languages have long been underrepresented in...
Mayor Sean Krausert will be raising the Pride flag in the spirit of celebrating Canmore Pride 2022 with special guests, the Honorable Janis Irwin, MLA for Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood and NDP Critic for Women and LGBTQ2S+ issues and Sarah Elmeligi, Alberta NDP candidate for the Banff-Kananaskis Constituency. Following the flag raising, Canmore Pride will welcome folks to...
Join us on a walk with a knowledgeable guide who will share the fascinating stories of Grotto Canyon from an Indigenous perspective. Grotto Canyon has a long and intimate relationship with Indigenous people from this area. There are important landmarks, signs, and even message boards left on the land that are read in a unique...
