Saturday, November 29, 2025
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM | Daniels Spectrum Lobby
Craft & Chill, facilitated by Labour in the Arts
With Guest Facilitator: Bailey Bornyk
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM | Daniels Spectrum Lobby
Three Sisters Indigenous Pop Up Market
7:30 PM | Aki Studio
Music + Comedy Night
Craft & Chill
Facilitated by Labour in the Arts
We will be bringing along snacks, chill vibes (quiet music and warm lamps again this year), in addition to Bailey's beading teachings and Elder Whabagoon's stories and knowledge sharing.
The only rule? NO WORK TALK ALLOWED!
Lead Facilitator, Natasha Ramondino
Lead Facilitator, Caolán Kelly
Guest Facilitator, Bailey Bornyk
Caolán Kelly, Lead Facilitator (Labour in the Arts)
Hey I’m Caolán (kay-lawn)! I’m a descendant of French/Scottish settlers, Irish/Ukrainian immigrants, and Mi'kmaq first nations, living in Tkaronto. My artistic practice includes an evolving body of graphic and digital work, currently taking inspiration from visual and data based patterns in nature, language and mathematics. Happy 38th Weesageechak Begins to Dance! See you at the craft and chill! 🌟🧵✏️😍💖
Bailey Bornyk, Guest Facilitator
Bailey Bornyk is a writer of Michif and Ukrainian/Russian/German-settler heritage from Saskatoon, and currently works and lives out of Toronto, Canada. He is a member of the Gabriel Dumont Local #11 and recently graduated as an English Major, Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto. Bailey’s art and writing appears in The Polyglot Magazine, IHRAM Literary Journal, and Bobbi Lee: A Collection of Indigenous Knowledges. His artistic practice spans writing, beadwork, embroidery, textile, tattoo taking inspiration from the natural world interlaced with family stories.
Natasha Ramondino, Lead Facilitator (Labour in the Arts)
Hey friends it’s Tash (she/her) 👋 I am an actor, creator, and arts worker. I am a descendant of Venezuelan, Trinidadian, and Italian immigrants, with settler lineage from France. I like being outside, yapping with friends, and will always ask if I can pet your dog.
Can't wait to be back crafting & chilling at the 38th Weesageechak Begins to Dance Festival. Tell me all about the show you’re binge watching rn, or we can vibe/zone out in our own worlds together 🌎✨
Three Sisters Indigenous Pop Up Market
FEATURING:
Karahkwa Jewelry
Jocelyn Kagige (Minwaate)
Jared Tait
Bruno Henry
Otter Bee Creative
Three Turtles Beadwork
Music + Comedy Night
Hosted by: Isabel Zaw-Tun
Performers: Yolanda Bonnell, Cale Crowe, Evan Redsky, Warren Mason
Isabel Zaw-Tun, Host
Isabel is a Métis and South Asian comedian from the tiny northern hamlet of Fort Vermillion, Alberta who now lives in Toronto, Ontario. She has appeared on CBC Gem, Just For Laughs, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and The Debaters. Her hot takes are what she describes as a 'medium spicy:' not quite incendiary, but something fun to chew on for the listener with an adventurous palette.
Yolanda Bonnell, Performer
Yolanda Bonnell (They/She) is a disabled Queer, 2 Spirit Anishinaabe-Ojibwe, South Asian mixed-race multidisciplinary storyteller, creator and facilitator. Hailing from Fort William First Nation, Ontario their arts practice is now based out of Tkarón:to. Yolanda is a multi-award nominated performer and published playwright. Her play, bug, which held four Dora nominations, was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Literary Award while My Sister’s Rage won the Playwright’s Guild of Canada Tom Hendry Drama Award. Yolanda has been nominated for outstanding performances in bug, Two Odysseys: Pimooteewin/ Gállábártnit and Kamloopa. Her published play, White Girls in Moccasins will be hitting the NEPA stage in 2026 and she is completing her first full length young adult novel, The Golden Birch. Yolanda proudly bases her arts practice in land-based creation and Anishinaabe methodologies, working towards disability justice in theatre.
Cale Crowe, Performer
Born and raised in Alderville First Nation, Cale Crowe has always been fuelled by music since picking up his father’s guitar at age 12. Today, performing using an acoustic guitar, an electronic drum pad, and a loop pedal, Cale has performed at bars, theatres, and festivals from Sydney, Nova Scotia to Albuquerque, New Mexico. His performance has shared stages with William Prince, Digging Roots, Aysanabee, Ron Sexsmith, and many others. To date, Cale has released two EPs and, most recently, one full-length album – a collection that funnels influences from Pop, Rock, Folk, and even R&B & Hip-Hop and reflects his deep love for storytelling & expression.
Evan Redsky, Performer
On The Language of Fishermen, Evan Redsky embodies and relays Indigenous stories and perspectives in order to better understand his own. Raised on the First Nations Reserve of Mississaugi First Nation in Blind River, Ontario, and now based in Toronto, Redsky’s new album reclaims the music of his childhood—Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, and Blue Rodeo—to share vulnerable stories of longing and resilience. A former member of Juno-nominated Single Mothers, current member of “Turtle Island Hardcore” band Indian Giver, and side person with acts including Altameda, Wyatt C. Lewis, and Nicolette and the Nobodies, Redsky’s latest sees this seasoned musical polymath digging deep. Inspired in part by the works of Ojibwe author Richard Wagamese, LP2 reflects on intergenerational trauma and the healing process while deftly honouring profound moments of everyday fulfillment. As Redsky sings, ““If love and work is enough for them / It’s good enough for me.”
Warren Mason, Performer
Soul Healing
Warren’s music is a reflection of who he is and where he comes from.
Healing past injustices is what Warren’s music is about. Warren see’s music has a strong and powerful story telling tool.
Being self-taught singer songwriter Warren see’s this as a great benefit to how the stories he shares come from his own sense of being in this world.
Warren feels privileged and honoured to have the opportunity to share story through music to a wide spectrum of communities throughout this country telling stories of and about him and his peoples.