Join us for our Nurture Spring Retreat May 30-June 1, 2025
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Facilitated by: Nimra Bandukwala, mixed media artist
Found at: @nimrabandukwala.art
Working with: yarn, crochet, mixed media
Hi, I’m Nimra – a painter, community-engaged arts facilitator, and nature artist based in Cambridge, Ontario on the traditional territories of the Attawandaron, Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples.
I come from a lineage of women who crafted with what they had, appreciated and grew plants, and valued the lives and stories of materials. I was born and raised in Karachi, and have lived in Italy, England, and Canada over the past decade.
I am interested in the intersections of making, storytelling and well-being through creating art with foraged and found materials. I also co-lead Reth aur Reghistan, a multidisciplinary arts project exploring Sindhi folklore, poetry, and sustainable artmaking (sculptural storytelling).
I’ve facilitated community-engaged art workshops with folks of all ages and abilities in Canada and England and believe that artmaking is a collaborative process that everyone should have access to.
Together, we explored the intersection between the natural world and our personal stories with natural botanical dyes.
Facilitated by: Katrina Marie (she/her), ceramic artist and sexologist
Found at: @myorgasmiclife and @snacksceramics
Working with: clay
Oh hey there! I’m Katrina! I’m the woman behind Snacks Ceramics.
I work during the day as a sexologist and group facilitator over at @myorgasmiclife. I loveee diving deep and tackling the most taboo, complex topics. And sometimes I need a freaking break from all the nuance and tension. Enter my ceramics practice!
Hands in clay to make something out of mud.
To get out of my head and into my body.
To process big feelings.
To feel the power to create beauty in an often ugly world.
To smell earth.
To be around other creative people.
Ceramics is my snack break of life (cookies are my fave snack). I love to share what I’m working on, and to sell small batches when my studio shelves get too full.”
Together, we explored sensory themes of strong boundaries and soft surrender, forming vessels out of clay that can hold it all.
Facilitated by: Sonja Seiler, food storyteller
Found at: @nurtureretreats
Working with: cream, time, fresh herbs and mix-ins and emotion
Hi, I’m Sonja – I consider myself a ‘food storyteller’.
To me, food carries the ability to connect, to inspire and to create and reignite memories. Cooking and eating well, especially together, is a deep form of nurturing that often gets overlooked.
My food and my approach in the kitchen is less ‘chef’ and more ‘kitchen witch’ – it is my biggest delight when you walk into the room and your eyes light up at the feast of options before you!
This workshop is a love letter, an invitation to awaken your creative impulses and a sensually delicious spell.
To me, food has the ability to tell stories. Flavours, colours and textures evoke memories, act as a beacon of beauty and bring people together.
I’m after inspiring you to bring beauty back to your daily table through the lens of your own longings.
Together, we used cream and expressive (e)motion to create butter from scratch, compounding it with a smorgasbord of unique ingredients. Ultimately, the finished butters represented the flavour of where we’d like to go next in our lives.
Captured by: Ricky Pangilinan
Found at: @sincerelyimage
Working with: digital photography
Hi, I’m Ricky! I love capturing places, movement + uniqueness and love to help artists and mothers celebrate and memorialize their raw and real moments.
Toronto-born to immigrant parents, I understand the importance of representation and strive to bring BIPOC stories to my platform’s forefront.
I’ve studied Advertising and Graphic Design, Image Styling and UX Design. My Dad taught me a lot about photography at an early age. He’s a retired lifestyle photographer and once owned a photo processing studio.
When I’m not with my camera in hand, I am at home with my twin girls, out with a friend, rewatching Bridgerton or writing up some kind of list on my Evernote.
I love movie nights, learning to be a better mother/human, thriller movies, supporting other local businesses, seeing new growth on my house plants, driving out in the countryside, sniff kisses, thrifting, visiting flower/family farms/garden centres, public art, poutine, cheesecake, alone time to recharge, celebrating wins (big + small) and catching sunrises/sunsets.