FREE, please register

Drop by anytime between 2 and 5pm — no experience, artistic skill, or commitment required. Come for ten minutes or stay the whole time.

Join us for an afternoon of storytelling and reflection as part of the Sparrow residency's HOME exhibition. Throughout the residency, our cohort of artists — Ezgi Turker, Shea Iles, Kseniia Koshmai, Jona Redwood, and Yu Chen — has explored what home means through miniature boxes, portraiture, beadwork and games, dreamcatchers and maps, and letters — the places we've left, the ones we've found, and the ones we carry with us. Now it's your turn to add your voice. Using a frame we provide, you'll create a small piece of your own story of home — a memory, a feeling, a place, a person — expressed however you'd like: write it, sketch it, collage it. All supplies are provided, so just bring yourself and your story. The artists will be present throughout the afternoon, so it's a chance to create alongside them and hear more about the work. When you're done, take your frame home as a keepsake of the afternoon, and of what home means to you.

Stay on as the afternoon rolls into our closing reception, where we'll celebrate the exhibition together over food and conversation. It's the last chance to see the installations before the show closes — come frame your story of home, then stay to hear everyone else's.

This is part of the HOME residency in July/August 2026 and gratefully funded by Calgary Arts Development.