Arts and Crafts

Boutique

Our arts & crafts counter has just acquired new and magnificent handicraft pieces you can buy while visiting the Centre. Furthermore, traditional moccasins and mittens can be obtained on request from our artisans. Please contact us and we will give you the information to place your orders.

While you are at the Centre, we also suggest that you take a few minutes to visit our exhibition Kamamadjisek, which means “Those who move”. You will see it in the corridor leading to the cafeteria where panels display the past and contemporary history of the Algonquins with historical photographs and life stories. The Kamamadjisek exhibition was created in 1991 on the occasion of the Native Film Festival in Val-d’Or. Alice Jérôme from Pikogan developed most of the content. At that time, the exhibition included 19 panels illustrating the past, present and future of the Algonquins. Visitors are guided by a fictional narrator, an Anishnabe child telling about his people.

Enjoy your visit!

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Kamamadjisek, a look on the Algonquins of Québec!

As part of the original exhibition has now become part of the past, the Friendship Centre is proud to present a modernised version of it, including new photographs, new mediums and a new narrative approach…

Kamamadjisek is a photo exhibition that takes a look on the Anishnabe k, a people that is still present on the territory.

Kamamadjisek means “what moves on”. It is a travelling exhibition that also refers to the Algonquins’ past nomadic life…

Without any historical pretention, the exhibition takes a look on the simple reality, as experienced by people from Kitcisakik, Pikogan and Winneway, and explores the Algonquin communities of Québec.

Combining technology and tradition, Kamamadjisek brings fragments of the past a bit closer to the present by highlighting different aspects from a current but mostly personal perspective.