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By Edith Cody-Rice The team that has brought to life the Seven Gifts in Riverfront Park (321 Spring Street, Almonte) on the Mississippi River. includes two talented carvers: Nish Nabie in wood and Deborah Arnold in stone. Nish Nabie Nish Nabie, the team's indigenous wood carver, is car

By Edith Cody-Rice The Seven Gifts Project is a Mississippi Mills bicentennial project of truth and reconciliation between Canada's indigenous peoples and those who came to North America from outside the continent and largely occupied lands inhabited for thousands of years by earlier native c

By Edith Cody-Rice On May 4, Mississippi Mills All My Relations (MMAMR) will introduce The Seven Gifts project to Mississippi Mills at a meeting in the Old Town Hall in Almonte. The Seven Gifts refer to the Seven Grandfather Teachings of the Annishnaabeg Algonquin --teachings which are guiding pr

By Edith Cody-Rice The Ten Collective show is attracting large crowds of art lovers to The Mississippi Valley Textile Museum this weekend and it deserves it. The show features excellent work of each of the ten artists involved. The artists subjects and style vary widely, from the deliciously

By Edith Cody-Rice If you want a shot of colour  on these dreary April days, I recommend that you drop into the Sivarulrasa Gallery on Mill Street in Almonte. Two exhibitions there explode with colour to lift your spirits while the third offers thoughtful repose. The three artists on exhibit are