Creation and Clan Story workshops are storytelling circles that bring together Community Members, Elders, Artists, and Council Fire staff in a supportive environment. Partnered with Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre, the Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts (ANDPVA) collaborates on projects like the story workshops that restore identity to Indigenous peoples.
Cultural genocide ensured that stories were not passed down from generation to generation. Based on the perspectives of Indigenous Peoples, Creation and Clan Story workshops become a healing circle for community members facing trauma.
Creation and Clan Story Workshops Sharing Circles range from 12 session series featuring Medicine Wheel Teachings to create personal safety plans to sessions around matriarch rights, banner, breastplate and rattle making for cultural expression to Red Dress Pin-Making to commemorate Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and LGBTQ2S. The houseless are welcomed at all Workshops hosted in parks.