Saturday, November 29, 2025
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM | Suite 130
Craft & Chill, facilitated by Labour in the Arts
With Guest Facilitator: Bailey Bornyk
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM | Daniels Spectrum Lobby
Mini Three Sisters Indigenous Popup Market
7:30 PM | Aki Studio
Music + Comedy Night
Craft & Chill
Facilitated by Labour in the Arts
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.
Music + Comedy Night
Hosted by: Meg MacKay
Performers: Yolanda Bonnell, Cale Crowe, Evan Redsky
Meg MacKay, Host
Meg MacKay is a Toronto based comedian and comedy writer. As a writer they worked on This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Baroness von Sketch Show, Acting Good and were a writer/producer on Don't Even. As a stand-up they have done Just For Laughs, Winnipeg Comedy Festival on CBC, and have two comedy albums-- Probably a Witch (2020) and Clown Baby (2023), both on Howl and Roar Records.
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.”