🎨🛶 Paint & Paddle 🛶🎨

Immerse yourself in nature as we float along the Grand River, taking in the beauty of the landscape while unlocking your inner artist. Using Beam Paints, this unique experience blends paddling with creativity in a calm setting.

We’ll begin by choosing one of seven paintable designs, gathering supplies, and receiving a safety talk before heading out on the water. We’ll paddle upstream, find a quiet spot to settle, and enjoy time to paint while surrounded by nature, a truly relaxing and creative experience.

Dates: August 22nd & September 7th
Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Cost: $70 per participant
Location: Chiefswood Park Boat Launch
Registration: sixnationstourism.ca/events

About the Paintables (Beam Paints)

Beam Paints is the result of a multi-generational love of pigment, paint, colour, and innovation. Founded by an Anishnaabe kwe from M’Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin Island, Beam Paints draws on Indigenous pigment knowledge passed down through generations, including harvesting hematite pigment from the LaCloche mountain range.

Their paints are made using lightfast pigments, gum arabic, and Manitoulin maple sap, creating rich, saturated colours that are a joy to paint with. Each paintstone is handmade, plastic-free, wrapped in beeswaxed cloth, and packaged in cedar and birch offcuts from an Indigenous sustainable lumber operation. Beam Paints is 100% Anishnaabe kwe-owned and proudly operates from their home reserve.

🛶 What’s Included:

1-hour guided paddle in your choice of canoe or kayak

Safety equipment and safety talk

One Beam paintable of your choice: Robin, Hummingbird, Goldfinch, Blue Jay, Wild Rose, or two floral bouquet designs

Paintbrush, water, and towel

In partnership with Moon Water Creative and Six Nations Tourism and Beam Paint

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