Thursday Creating - Crafting Night

FREE | ALL AGES* | NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED

Join Rachana Joshi for a calming and creative crochet workshop where we'll explore the art of crafting mandalas—sacred symbols representing unity and harmony. This workshop is perfect for beginners, as we’ll start with the basics, learning to create beautiful circular motif patterns using simple crochet stitches.

For those with a bit more experience, there will variations available to challenge and inspire your creativity. By the end of the session, we’ll combine everyone’s unique mandalas into a collaborative piece, symbolizing our collective journey toward wholeness and connection.

All materials will be provided, and no prior crochet experience is necessary. Come with an open heart and leave with a handmade mandala and new skills to continue your crochet journey.

Rachana Joshi is an emerging dance artist based in Toronto. She completed her Bharatanatyam arangetram under Lata Pada in 2017 and trained in the Tanjavur bani with Guru H.K. Kalyanasundaram and Guru Harikishan S Nair. Rachana graduated with honors from York University’s B.F.A program in Dance. She has earned the Monorama Thakkar Award in Indian Classical Dance and the Kondor Fine Arts Award. Rachana is a company dancer with Nova Dance. As co-founder of Kala Collective, she aims to share South Asian diasporic identity through dance.

*Under 12 need to accompanied by an adult.