SUITS OFF: Community Pop Up Art Activity

SUITS OFF is a monthly art experience with PoMoArts, exploring how privilege and power can distance us from real issues. Every 4th Friday of the month, we "unsuit"—acknowledging formalities that mask injustice to open ourselves to a connected community through art. To help us navigate division, anxiety, and overwhelm, we invite you to make art with us each month to find hope, clarity, and belonging in the act of creating. Drop by PoMoArts any time from Friday at 3pm through the weekend to take part in a free, self-guided art activity. Each month we’ll explore a new theme and medium, inviting you to contribute to a collective experience that challenges barriers and ignites conversations. Come art with us—for awareness, empathy, and connection!

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Current Activity - Fabric of Healing

In recognition of Truth and Reconciliation Day on September 30, contribute to this weave and add to the healing process in our communities. Each natural fibre and thread of orange you weave carries intention, coming together to form a unified fabric of support and action.

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Past Art Activities

August - September: Beaded Lavender Bouquet

Lavender has long stood as a powerful symbol of resistance, empowerment, and remembrance within the LGBTQIA+ movement. Whether you're a member of the LGBTQIA+ community or a proud ally, show your support by crafting a 3-piece lavender bouquet. Help foster visibility, solidarity, and a more inclusive space for all.

July - August: Wish Tree

Inspired by Yoko Ono’s ‘Wish Tree’, you are invited to write or illustrate your hopes and wishes on a colourful blossom and add it to the tree. As it blooms with community voices, the tree becomes a living artwork, and a collective expression of hope, healing, and unity.

June - July: Rock Wrapping

Join us in wrapping heart strings of intention, remembrance, healing, and hope around earthy rocks to take home or leave where you would like. Inspired by the Japanese art of rock wrapping and the journey of reconciliation we are all on, towards healing, as we move each generation forward.

May - June: The Big Picture: Collective Mark-making

In a world shaped by power and privilege, it’s easy to feel disconnected. Our future is shaped by many hands, voices, and perspectives working together. Join us in adding to this evolving mural, as part of our ongoing participatory art experiences, and help us build a shared vision rooted in connection and shared responsibility.

April-May: Power of Words: Poetry Station

This space is for exploring complex feelings, uncertanties, and visions for a better future. Use the word tiles to assemble poetic phrases, questions, or truths surrounding awareness, injustices, overwhelm, hope, clarity, and belonging.