Northern Ontario Research Development Ideas and Knowledge Institute, or NORDIK for short, hosted a day-long culture camp for young high school students. The camp was held at Sault Ste. Marie’s Algoma University with a goal to explore themes of Indigenous creativity and resistance.
Students started off the day with a panel discussion before taking part in a printmaking workshop. Organizers say art has always been used as a mechanism for Indigenous storytelling and as a method of healing and connecting young people back to their culture.
Krista Bissiallon is a researcher at NORDIK Institute.
“We want the culture to thrive and be alive, so we’re hoping to engage Indigenous youth and really thinking about the things they can do to reclaim some of the things that of been taken away from us.” said Bissaillon.
35 people took part in the cultural workshop, most were Indigenous high school students.
