Terminalia Feb 17-24, 2025: A “Royal” Coffee: Pam Patterson & Candace Wilkins, Royal Hotel, Picton, ON

A desire for inclusion, understanding, and action (however seemingly insignificant) – especially given the recent political shifts here in North America – sparks this Terminalia “event”.

Candace Wilkins (Picton) and Pam Patterson (Toronto) have recently been enacting a tradition-of-hope. We will repeat this for Terminalia 2025 with a heightened anticipation and awareness. Each will walk from the town parking lot, or a thrift shop, the Giant Tiger, the bookstore, the grocery store, through (in February) snowy streets to sit together on the large grey welcoming couch in front of the fire at the Royal Hotel in Picton, Ontario, Canada. 

There is an expectation for both of us of hope…  hope for a moment where we will be joyfully together, supported in who we are as individuals and in our potentials as colleagues and friends. We hope that we will engage and be potentially fulfilled in our ideas, concerns and study. We anticipate good coffee and a conversation that will energize possibilities for more inclusive creative spaces and places for us and for others!

This is about making space and taking up space to celebrate one another through struggle with meaningful connection, to create moments for memory and happiness. Walking outdoors and connecting to our community and those we see when we walk to the Royal and after is a regenerative practice that can have a ripple effect that sparks spontaneous conversations and experiences that nurture ours and others needs.  

Date: Feb 17-24 , 2025
Location, Royal Hotel, Picton, Prince Edward County, Ontario
Pam Patterson & Candace Wilkins
WIAprojects, Canada.

The global festival of Terminalia (Feb. 23) is about boundaries and borders - real, historical, fictional, imagined. It marks places of beginnings, endings, and thresholds. Events: Link. Thanks to curator Tim Waters, UK.

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