Workshop: Down to Dumpling?
Instructed by Snack Witch Joni Cheung
OFF SITE PROGRAM: HOSTED AT DROP IN CENTRE- 123 MAIN ST, ROULEAU, SK
March 8, 2025| 2-4pm
ALL THE SPOTS FOR THIS WORKSHOP HAVE BEEN FILLED!
Down to Dumpling? is a call and response project sustained through exchanging hand folded, edible goodies. It started during the global pandemic as a desire for Cheung to enact their family’s Sunday morning ritual of going to 飲茶 yum cha and ordering mountains of 點心 dim sum.
Inspired by a memory of her folding 燒賣 siu mai and 雲吞 wonton with their dad, this lonely activity became a way for them to reach out to and care for loved ones and strangers from afar. Isolation provided room to percolate on thoughts around home(making), diasporic experiences, and familial relations in material + intangible realms. Continuing on through this collective time, the artist hopes to nurture acts of sharing space, stories, energy, and food—together.
🔮 Snack Witch Joni Cheung 🍡 is a grateful, uninvited guest born—and knows she wants to die—on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, Stó:lō, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh peoples. They are a Certified Sculpture Witch with an MFA from Concordia University (2023). As a wicked #magicalgirl ✨ who eats art + makes snacks, she has exhibited across Turtle Island and beyond. Currently, they are based on the stolen lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka peoples, working as a part-time lecturer in the Design and Computation Arts Department at Concordia University.
Aside from art-making, Joni likes wandering down grocery store aisles + drinking bubble tea. 🧋
Documentation of the previous DTD: Down to Dumpling workshops I have prepared and led at Struts Gallery and Open Sky Co-op (Sackville, NB) in September 2023.
You can sign up through the link below or by emailing [email protected] – limited spots available.
This workshop was generously sponsored by Sasktel.
