The Charitable Purposes of the Rejoinery
- To advance education by providing public instruction, workshops, exhibitions, and interpretive programming on architectural heritage, domestic design history, and the restoration and preservation of historic materials.
- To promote the preservation and conservation of Canada’s architectural and domestic material heritage by salvaging, conserving, documenting, and restoring architectural elements and historically significant domestic objects that would otherwise be discarded or destroyed.
- To advance public appreciation of heritage and design history by curating public exhibitions, interpretive installations, publications, and digital resources related to architectural and domestic cultural heritage.
- To make salvaged architectural materials and restored household fixtures available at low or sliding-scale cost to individuals, community groups, and affordable housing initiatives, making materials accessible.
- To provide training and skill-building opportunities for volunteers, students, and emerging craftspeople in heritage restoration practices and conservation methods.
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Who are we? We're the founders of the Rejoinery
Trina Cooper-Bolam
Trina Cooper-Bolam
Trina Cooper-Bolam
Equally an exhibition designer, scholar, and museum and heritage practitioner, Trina works with clients to elicit approaches, techniques, and pedagogies for enhancing experiences of history in the present. She lives to augment the storytelling power of objects through curatorship and design. As a curatorial instructor, Trina empowers
Equally an exhibition designer, scholar, and museum and heritage practitioner, Trina works with clients to elicit approaches, techniques, and pedagogies for enhancing experiences of history in the present. She lives to augment the storytelling power of objects through curatorship and design. As a curatorial instructor, Trina empowers emerging curators and interpreters to engage in design-thinking and, conversely, challenges design teams to take on curatorial and visitor perspectives.
Stephanie Pyne
Trina Cooper-Bolam
Trina Cooper-Bolam
A scholar, geographer, researcher, and instructor, Stephanie works with communities through collaborative mapping practices to create digital cartographies of shared memory and cultural heritage, contributing to intercultural dialogue and reconciliation. Stephanie is also an social-justice oriented activist who is passionate about our collective right to our material history and heritage.