RAD Cafe

Hey Rad Fam! We hope you had a restful hibernation and a gentle spring.

To start off our summer activities, we will be tabling at the Mutual Aid and Community Organizing Fair organized by .collective .herstories.

We hope to see you out there, in community. 🌻❤️

We have been hibernating since our last Rad Cafe event (which was a beautiful, healing, and replenishing space for those who needed rest & medicines).

We have been resting too. But mostly, we are thinking about ways forward to make our events more accessible so that we can meet more of everyone’s needs.

We believe in taking care of community in a healing and embodied way. That’s why we exist. We want to continue to be in community in a good way 🤲🏽🌱🪷

Feel free to send us any ideas you have!

Stay with us as we plan for another gathering soon. Thank you for your patience 🌻

May you be at rest.
May you be filled with loving kindness.
May you be happy and healthy.
May you be free from suffering.
May you live in peace.

-your friends at Rad Cafe 🍄

Artist credit:
“One day at a time” - By , Japanese-Métis artist based in Vancouver. Support local. Support Indigenous artists and artists of colour 🌈💫🙏🏽👩🏻‍🎨

🌿Featuring our special guests, healers, artists, and knowledge holders for RAD Cafe’s Community Medicine Night on Wednesday, December 14th, 2022, at the :

Vanessa Sharkey (Opaskawak Cree Nation) is the executive director for 7 Generation Stewards Society. A practicing medicine woman and healer that incorporates plants from the east and west to make traditional medicines for everyone.

Cory Cliffe, a member of the Lekwiltok Nation &President and co founder of 7 Generation Stewards Society. He is an artist, knowledge keeper, singer and drummer. He also mentors youth in traditional values and practices.

We can’t wait and hold these two with gratitude as they travel from Campbell River to be with us.

We will also have other community members participating that evening. Please get your tickets soon.

And bring a friend, family member, or someone you think needs some medicine this season (hint: we all do 😌🙏🏽).

🌿Featuring our special guests, healers, artists, and knowledge holders for RAD Cafe’s Community Medicine Night on Wednesday, December 14th, 2022, at the :

Alex Taylor-McCallum (.mama.na) is a kwakwa̲ka̲’wakw & Nuu-Cha-Nulth creative native artist of various mediums. He is a muralist, lyricist, writer, story teller, drummer, singer, performer, filmmaker, decolonial cook and Father of two on the red road who aims to indigenize genres of music and continuously learn about his culture.

Healing and medicines come in all forms within our communities. Especially in our dancing, drumming, and art!

We’re looking forward to what Alex will share with us in his healing practices 🤲🏽🌿💗

🌿Featuring our special guests, healers, artists, and knowledge holders for RAD Cafe’s Community Medicine Night on Wednesday, December 14th, 2022, at the :

is an Indigenous artist based in the traditional territory of the Lekwugen, place to smoke herring lands of the Songhees and Esquimalt nations in Victoria B.C. 

Today working as one of few Indigenous female artists within her traditional territory of the Songhees people, she has worked on murals, logos, small business designs, small event designs and more! Her work in markets consist of cards, coloring books, buttons, prints and much more.

Brianna believes in telling stories through her design. Check out her personal website to see some of her art & merch!

Her art and products will also be available for purchase at our event on December 14th 🤗

Our next event is in 4 days! Community Medicine Night on Wednesday, December 14th .

In preparing for winter ❄️, we want to revive and reclaim our healing ancestral medicines 🪷🌱
This is our way of decolonizing.

We will share with the community how to build resiliency and inner warmth with ancient traditions passed down from our ancestors.

Our special guests are:
from Songhees & Namgis nations

from Ayurvedic traditions

Vanessa Sharkey & Cory Cliffe from Liǧʷiłdax̌ʷ territory (Kwakwakaʼwakw)

As well as .with.prakhar and sharing from traditional Indian and Chinese medicines and practices

We will also have a community open-mic/sharing for others to share their art, traditional medicines, and healing methods.

Get your tickets NOW as we have limited space! See our link in the bio 🤗

There will be sales of healing foods, medicine, and art 💝 So bring a healthy appetite and cash or card 💸 💳

Get ready.

Our next event is in 4 days! Community Medicine Night on Wednesday, December 14th .

In preparing for winter ❄️, we want to revive and reclaim our healing ancestral medicines 🪷🌱
This is our way of decolonizing.

We will share with the community how to build resiliency and inner warmth with ancient traditions passed down from our ancestors.

Our special guests are:
from Songhees & Namgis nations

from Ayurvedic traditions

Vanessa Sharkey & Cory Cliffe from Liǧʷiłdax̌ʷ territory (Kwakwakaʼwakw)

As well as .with.prakhar and sharing from traditional Indian and Chinese medicines and practices

We will also have a community open-mic/sharing for others to share their art, traditional medicines, and healing methods.

Get your tickets NOW as we have limited space! See our link in the bio 🤗

There will be sales of healing foods, medicine, and art 💝 So bring a healthy appetite and cash or card 💸 💳

PC 📸: .d.alvarez