Join our in-person artistic workshop facilitated by Luna Aixin. Registration will be limited to 20 participants. The workshop is built around active engagement between participants and will not be recorded or shared. 

As part of YWCA’s “Reimagining Our Cities” series, artist and facilitator Luna Aixin (GaGiNang Productions) will lead a group of participants in an inquisitive, heartful, and imaginative in-person zine-making workshop. During the workshop, participants will engage with the City of New Westminster’s Poet Laureate Elliot Slinn’s poem (emerging from previous “Reimagining our Cities” events) as well as other inspirations while imagining bold and brave ideas on the future of cities on these unceded Indigenous lands. The group’s creations will be collated into a collective zine. 

Participants will be given a $75 honorarium and we can provide transit subsidies if needed. 

Facilitator

Luna Aixin 月爱心 (They/Them/它/它们)

Luna is a multiracial, non-binary, neurodivergent, disabled settler, community planner, facilitator and artist, whose has ties to communities in Southeast Asia and South Pacific Islands. As someone that was borned into a colonized society, Luna has been reseaching , learning, understanding and working on creating cultures and communities that are decolonial - accepting, inclusive, celebratory and supportive of each other.  As a neurodivergent person, Luna loves multimodal ways of creative expressions and experiencing the joy in witnessing others “play with imagination” on “very serious matters”. They work with local governments, non-profits, community organizations and projects through GaGiNang Productions (自己人创作) on ways to create equitable, just and safe systems and practises that can better serve our communities. They currently reside on the stolen and unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

This workshop is now at capacity; please email sshortt@ywcavan.org to join the waitlist.