Family fun - All About Bugs!


Date: May 26
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Level 3 Open Minds Classroom
Family Fun

Step into a world of family fun at The Rooms! Experience an afternoon filled with creativity and connection for the family. This monthly event showcases a new theme and craft, cleverly tying into our galleries. Unleash your creativity, create memories, and relish quality family time with us!

In connection with The Rooms Natural History Collection, get inspired by bugs!
Come learn about insects, arachnids, and anthropods and the important role they play on our planet. Celebrate these tiny creatures in a big way by designing your own beetle, bee, or butterfly and with over a million known insect species, and thousands more discovered every year you can let your imagination go wild!

This is a drop-in program – no ticket is required.

Events & Programs

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

How do place, identity, and art intersect, and what do their points of intersection tell us about this place we call home?

In this talk, Rhea Rollmann will explore the significance of queer and trans art in Atlantic Canada with particular emphasis on the work of Erica Rutherford as well as iterations of queer and trans art in NL. There will be an opportunity for questions after the talk.

Tickets: $12 plus HST. Free for Rooms members. Get your tickets online or by calling 709-757-8090.

About the Presenter:

Rhea Rollmann (she/her) is an award-winning journalist, writer and audio producer based in St. John's, NL, and is the author of A Queer History of Newfoundland (Engen Books, 2023). She is a founding editor of The Independent NL and her journalism has appeared in Briarpatch Magazine, CBC, Xtra Magazine, Chatelaine, PopMatters, Riddle Fence, Macleans and more. Her academic work has been published in the Journal of Gender Studies, Labor Studies Journal, Canadian Woman Studies, Journal of Work and Society, Canadian Theatre Review, Canadian Review of Sociology, Screen Bodies and elsewhere. She also has an extensive background in labour organizing and queer/trans activism, and she is Station Manager at CHMR-FM, a community radio station in St. John's.