Art Circle
2026-02-20 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-02-27 10:00 - 12:00, 2026-03-06 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | MERA Schoolhouse, McDonald’s Corners
Join us and learn from and be inspired by what others in the group are working on. There is plenty of time to work on your own piece and also trade ideas and techniques with others in a casual way.

Recorder Consort
2026-02-20 13:00 - 14:15, 2026-02-27 13:00 - 14:15, 2026-03-06 13:00 - 14:15 | MERA Schoolhouse, McDonald’s Corners
The MERA Recorder Consort is an ongoing, flexible group of players. We meet regularly, playing intermediate level music in 2-5 parts, soprano, alto, tenor and bass. We play for our own enjoyment, and we sometimes play for a MERA event such as the Wassail.
If you already read music and play the recorder, we would love you to join this group of enthusiastic amateur players, with teacher Helen Mogford providing guidance and music. We have a 75 minute class most Fridays.

Saturday Cafe
2026-02-21 10:00 - 14:00
Come in from the cold and enjoy a warm Saturday at MERA
Coffee, Tea and Hot Chocolate and fun conversations (free)
Homemade soup
Baked goods
Donations and volunteers are more than welcome!
Art Show in Dean Hall by the MERA Art Circle
Let you kids create at the Children’s Art Table!

Open Artists Studio
2026-02-23 10:00 - 14:00, 2026-03-02 10:00 - 14:00, 2026-03-09 10:00 - 14:00 | MERA Schoolhouse, McDonald’s Corners
MERA members are welcome to come to the MERA schoolhouse on Mondays for the Open Artists Studio. Bring your own work, and enjoy the light and the warmth during the fall, winter and spring seasons. The MERA room beside the kitchen can hold up to 7 people comfortably. We’ll begin with a drop in, so come for all or a part of the time slot.
Mondays, 10-2, excluding statutory holidays.
Starting Oct 20, 2025
contacts:
Sandy McNulty sandymcnulty8@gmail.com
Deb Shea debjshea@gmail.com

Closed for Cleaning
2026-02-24 05:00 - 07:00, 2026-03-03 05:00 - 07:00, 2026-03-10 05:00 - 07:00

Pottery Studio
2026-02-24 13:00 - 15:00, 2026-03-03 13:00 - 15:00, 2026-03-10 13:00 - 15:00 | MERA Schoolhouse, McDonald’s Corners
Meeting Space: Pottery Studio (basement)
Contact Person: Lyndal Neelin
We are a joyful group of potters who share space, tools and experience in the basement of the MERA schoolhouse. We are organized as a co-operative, sharing responsibility for making our studio a fun, open, supportive and safe place to enjoy creating works in clay both on and away from the wheel.
Each studio member is encouraged to participate in both individual and collective projects, to contribute to studio maintenance tasks, and to teach and learn from the other potters. MERA potters also organize learning and teaching opportunities in the form of in-house workshops and sessions led by professional potters and contribute to the Annual MERA Christmas Fair.

Pottery Studio
2026-02-25 13:00 - 15:00, 2026-03-04 13:00 - 15:00, 2026-03-11 13:00 - 15:00 | MERA Schoolhouse, McDonald’s Corners
Meetings Space: Pottery Studio (basement)
Contact Person: Heather Vriends

MERA's Needle Pushers
2026-02-25 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-04 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-11 13:00 - 16:00
Meeting Space: MERA Room
Contact Person: Bonnie McQuatt
We welcome anyone who might have new techniques or designs to share or perhaps just has a desire to try something new.
Most of the fun of quilting is being with the people we quilt with. Newcomers learn by doing. If you would like to try quilting with us we will share our supplies with you until you figure out if quilting is your thing or not. The requirements for quilting are minimal. Those who have a portable sewing machine, rotary cutter and mat will bring that equipment when we are starting a quilt and we work together cutting out the pattern and assembling the quilt. Once the hand quilting begins each person needs their own thimble, scissors and quilting needles.

Heritage Weavers
2026-02-26 09:00 - 14:00, 2026-03-05 09:00 - 14:00
Meeting Place: Dean Hall
Contact Person: Lise Loader
This collective has expanded significantly from a core group over the last few years.
The weavers gather to plan and work on projects and are available to share ideas, advice and enthusiasm with each other and newer weavers. It’s an apprentice-like learn-as-you-go environment suited to those who have taken an introduction to weaving weekend workshop at a guild.
We have 7 looms of various sizes and styles at MERA. Some of these looms are set up with extra-long warps which become cooperative projects that various members work on when they can.
As with all groups at the Schoolhouse, you must have a MERA membership to become a regular member of the MERA Heritage Weavers.

Saturday Cafe
2026-02-28 10:00 - 14:00, 2026-03-07 10:00 - 14:00
Come in from the cold and enjoy a warm Saturday at MERA
Coffee, Tea and Hot Chocolate and fun conversations (free)
Homemade soup
Baked goods
Take in the Art Show in Dean Hall
Enjoy your coffee and let your kids create at the Children’s Art Table!
Donations and volunteers are more than welcome!

Art Installation
2026-03-01 13:00 - 16:00 | MERA Schoolhouse, McDonald’s Corners

Board Meeting
2026-03-03 18:00 - 20:00

Private Rental
2026-03-07 09:00 - 17:00
March 7, 2026 9am-5pm
Location: Dean Hall
Contact: Ankaret Dean and Melissa Cornacchia

Meet the Artists at MERA: MERA's Potters, Weavers and Quilters
2026-03-08 14:00 - 16:00
Meet the Artist at MERA
MERA’s Potters, Weavers and Quilters
With great excitement, MERA’s pottery, weaving and quilting groups come together to display their work. MERA’s March art exhibition will honor these groups who continue the tradition of craft and the joy of making things. We invite you to the show opening at our Meet the Artist Event in Dean Hall, Sunday March 8th from 2 pm to 4 pm.
An exhibition of pots, weaving and quilts combines the formative crafts of MERA’s formation as a community hub for creative arts, and, more generally, in the deeply human art of self expression. These crafts turn quotidian items into works of interest, colour and beauty. MERA initially collected together the heritage crafts of weaving, quilt making and pottery stitching them into the texture of this community. All three creative ventures continue to thrive here. Welcome to this exhibition of the community’s work.
You can view the exhibit for the entire month March. In fact, why not swing by during MERA’s Saturday Café from 10 am to 2 pm? To arrange to see the exhibition at other times, please contact Tim Booth at timothybooth9@gmail.com.
