Slipper Making Workshop

This Slipper Making Workshop, brought together 10 participants from Hopedale, Nunatsiavut for a hands-on workshop to learn about sewing Labrador Inuit-style slippers. For three weeks, community members aged 12+ met to work alongside and learn from a local elder and young seamstresses, not only about sewing this pair of slippers, but to develop the skills and knowledge to be able to continue sewing on their own time. Veronica, the workshop lead, identified that this workshop would be important because not many people, especially young people, in her community know how to sew and it is important to keep the traditional sewing practices alive. Additionally, this would provide a valuable opportunity for the participants to get to spend time and work with an elder of the community and share stories to learn more about one another.



