Join us on September 21st from 1-4 pm to make a beaded orange shirt pin with Wagella Hunt. This pin is to be worn on Truth and Reconciliation Day.

We wear orange shirts on September 30th to raise awareness and honour the survivors of Residential Schools, as well as the children who never returned home.

About the Artist
Wagella Hunt is from the Heiltsuk Nation of Bella Bella, BC and Sapotaweyak Cree Nation in Manitoba (Treaty 4) and is the creative mind behind Bella Cree Beads.

Growing up in the East Vancouver Urban Indigenous community, Wagella learned how to bead from her mother creating items to sell at pow wows and canoe gatherings to earn money for summer spending. She picked up beads again during the pandemic as a way to calm her heart and mind following shift work in the DTES.

Currently, she is working with Providence Healthcare as the Indigenous Cultural Safety Lead developing and facilitating education to promote fair treatment of Indigenous people in the healthcare systems. Outside of work, Wagella participates in cultural ceremonies, and dances, learns the Heiltsuk language, and creates art through her beadwork.

Limited to 15 participants!