WAG Wednesday Nights

Apr 22

5:00pm - 9:00pm

Celebrate Earth Day with an immersive evening of art, reflection, and connection—part of a worldwide movement that honors environmental awareness while calling us to care more deeply for the planet we share.

Beginning at 6pm, experience a captivating live demonstration by textile and floral artist Lourdes Still, founder of Masagana Flower Farm & Studio. Working with seasonal blooms and organic materials, she will create a temporary, site-responsive artwork that unfolds in real time. Her ephemeral demonstration celebrates seasonal beauty while reminding us of the fragility and resilience of the living environment. Don’t miss the opportunity to try out some of her techniques and purchase your own flower-dying kit to take home (while supplies last).

At 7:30pm, continue the evening with Indigenous art educator Rebecca McIvor who will guide a thought-provoking conversation inspired by the exhibition Carrie Allison: we tend to care. Together, we will look more closely at the ground beneath our feet—the grasses, cultivated spaces, and “green” landscapes often overlooked—and consider how historical or colonial perspectives have shaped dominant ideas of land, beauty, ownership, and control. Through artwork and dialogue, this gathering opens space to question inherited narratives and invites deeper reflection on stewardship, reciprocity, and our shared responsibilities to the earth and to one another.

What’s on view

About Lourdes Still

Lourdes Still

Lourdes Still is the founder of Masagana Flower Farm & Studio, an award-winning, seasonal flower farm with a year-round dye studio located in Southeast Manitoba. She wears many hats: farmer, natural dye artist, and experience guide for her signature tourism offering, Tinta Experience, a one-of-a-kind workshop on natural dyeing.

She and her husband, Kevin, have turned most of their lawns into garden beds producing a harvest that lived up to its name — Masagana, a Tagalog word that means abundant, plentiful, and bountiful. The farm focuses on growing plants used as natural dye sources, including indigo, for on-farm workshops and to create handmade, naturally tinted textiles. Rooted in slow, intentional and regenerative growing practices, Lourdes’ work invites others to reimagine our relationship with the land through decolonized land stewardship, creative expression, and experiential tourism.

She hosts the Tinta Experience, a nature-based workshop where guests explore natural dyeing using seasonally grown flowers and other traditional colour sources. Her work brings together art, environmental awareness, and our connection with the land, ourselves and one another.

In 2024, Masagana Flower Farm & Studio was named Small Business of the Year by Travel Manitoba. Selected for delivering exceptional visitor experiences, showcasing and inviting guests to experience Manitoba’s spacious prairie landscape, its tall grass beauty, fertility and possibility.