[Indigsol] First Voices! First Women Speak! A Teach-in and Community Gathering

[ipsm ottawa]

*Please register early and spread the word widely!!! *

First Voices! First Women Speak! A Teach-in and Community Gathering

You are invited to attend *First Voices! First Women Speak!* A teach-in and
community gathering featuring renowned Indigenous scholars, writers and
artists *Lee Maracle* and *Leanne Betasamosake Simpson*, as well as *Claudette
Commanda, Viola Thomas, Vera Wabegijig, Moe Clark*, and others!
 <http://ipsmo.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/aug24poster51.pdf>

Please click the image to download the poster.

*1:30 ~ 9 pm*
*Friday August 24, 2012*
*Odawa Native Friendship Centre*
*12 Sterling Ave.*
*Ottawa, Unceded Algonquin Territory *

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/409497419085733/

We will meet, share knowledge and generate ideas about how we – as
Indigenous and non-Indigenous people – can work together in solidarity to
the benefit of all living beings.

There will be a lecture, a book launch, discussion circles, spoken word
performances, traditional drumming and a feast!

*Please register by August 17th – space is limited! Click
here<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/firstwomenspeak>
 (http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/firstwomenspeak) to confirm your spot. The
registration fee is $20 or pay what you can. You can pay in advance or at
the door. *

*This is an amazing opportunity to have so many inspiring women in the same
place, sharing their wisdom and experience! We especially want to encourage
youth to participate. If you are a youth and/or non-waged, registration is
free.*

If you are unable to attend but would like to support this event, please
make a donation by clicking
here<https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=PFJF4XLMBUDHE>.
Once the cost of the event has been covered, any additional funds will be
put towards the publication of ‘Honouring Indigenous Women: Hearts of
Nations- Vol. 2’, an initiative of IPSMO. For details on this publication,
please see: www.ipsmo.org.

*Programme*

MC: *Viola Thomas*

*Part I*

*1:30* Opening and welcome by *Claudette Commanda*
*2:00* Lecture by *Lee Maracle*: *There is a direct connection between
violence against the earth and violence against women: looking to the past
to restore our future*.
*3:00* Break
*3:15* Circle responses, reflections and crafting plans of action (circles
lead by *Claudette Commanda, Lee Maracle, and Leanne Simpson*)
*5:00* Spoken word and poetry performance by *Vera Wabegijig and Angel
Nsenga*
*5:30* Closing for the afternoon

5:45 Feast!

*Part II*

*7:00* Ottawa Launch of *Leanne Betasamosake Simpson*’s recent book: *Dancing
on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a
New Emergence*
*8:00* Performance by *Moe Clark and Leanne Simpson*
*8:40* Closing remarks from *Lee Maracle*
*9:00* Closing for the day by *Claudette Commanda*

*If you are unable to come for the whole day you are welcome to come only
for the launch of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s new book ‘Dancing on our
Turtle’s Back’ which will be happening from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

*This event is a collaboration between Indigenous Peoples Solidarity
Movement Ottawa (IPSMO) and KAIROS Canada <http://www.kairoscanada.org/>.*

*About our guests and presenters:*

*Claudette Commanda* is the Executive Director of the First Nations
Confederacy of Cultural Education Centres, where she works tirelessly in
the preservation and maintenance of First Nations languages, cultures, and
traditions. She is also a part-time professor for the Common Law Section of
the Faculty of Law, the Institute of Women’s Studies, the Aboriginal
Studies Program and the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa.
(from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa)

*Lee Maracle* is a writer, activist and performer from the Stó:lō nation
located in the area now known as British Columbia. She is currently the
Aboriginal Writer-in-Residence for First Nations House, and an instructor
in the Aboriginal Studies Department at the University of Toronto. Lee is
one of the founders of the En’owkin International School of Writing in
Penticton, BC, and Cultural Director of the Centre for Indigenous Theatre
in Toronto. She mentors young people on personal and cultural healing and
reclamation. (from CBC 8th Fire)

*Books written by Lee Maracle:*

   - Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel – 1975 (revised 1990)
   - Sojourner’s Truth and Other Stories – 1990
   - Oratory: Coming to Theory – 1990
   - Sundogs – 1991
   - Ravensong – (Press Gang Publishers)1993
   - I am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism – 1988;
   Press Gang Publishers 1996
   - Daughters are Forever – 2002
   - Will’s Garden – 2002
   - First Wives Club: Coast Salish Style – (Theytus Books Publishing) 2010

*Leanne Betasamosake Simpson* is a writer and scholar of Michi Saagiik
Nishnaabeg ancestry and is a member of Alderville First Nation. She holds a
Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba, is an Adjunct Professor of
Indigenous Studies at Trent University and an instructor at the Centre for
World Indigenous Knowledge, Athabasca University. Leanne has published
three edited volumes including Lighting the Eighth Fire: The Liberation,
Resurgence and Protection of Indigenous Nations (2008, Arbeiter Ring), and
This is An Honour Song: Twenty Years Since the Barricades (with Kiera
Ladner, 2010, Arbeiter Ring). Her recent book, Dancing on Our Turtle’s
Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence was
published in May 2011 and turns to Nishnaabeg theory and philosophy for
guidance in building and maintaining resurgence movements. It is her hope
that this work will inspire the regeneration of Nishnaabeg systems of
governance, language, and knowledge – systems that place women back at the
centre of Kina Gchi Nishnaabeg‐ogaming. (from Leanne Simpson’s web site:
http://leannesimpson.ca/)

*Vera Wabegijig* is an Anishnaabe mother from the bear clan of the
Mississauga First Nation and Wikwemikong Unceded Reserve. She is also a
poet, writer and media artist. Her poetry has been printed in many
anthologies including XXX NDN, Surviving in the Hour of Darkness, Breaking
the Surface, Our Words, Our Revolutions, Reclaiming the Future, and
Sweetgrass Grows All Around Her. Currently, Vera has completed a collection
of poetry, Manomin – Wild Rice Dreams, and with her daughters Storm and
Grace, will launch a new media website this summer called Ishkode/Fire. You
can read her blog at: http://verawaabegeeshig.wordpress.com/.

*Angel Nsenga* is a slam Poet at Urban Legendz and a second year
Transnational Law, Human Rights and Political Science: International
Relations major at Carleton University. She is also a member of Students
Against Israeli Apartheid and World University Services Canada-Carleton,
which works to help student refugees in camps gain access to post-secondary
education and obtain automatic permanent residency status here in Canada.



In Solidarity,
IPSMO
on unceded Algonquin Territory
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