[Indigsol] UPDATED: Upcoming events, Sept/Oct

[ipsmo at riseup.net]

UPCOMING EVENTS:


Sept 13 - Benefit for the Tenessee Cree (Kevin Schofield)
Sept 14 - First Nation Men's & Women's Rally to End Violence
Sept 14 - Andrea Smith speaking in Ottawa
Sept 15 - Odawa Community Talkshow (Niigaan: In Conversation)
Sept 21 - 3rd Annual Kikinàmàgan (Student) Pow Wow at CareltonU
Sept 29 - Rally for the Rideau River - Keep the 613 Tar Free
Oct 4 - 3rd Annual Families of Sisters in Spirit Vigil
also Oct 4 - 8th Annual Sisters in Spirit Vigils (across Canada)
Oct 19 - Idle No More Potluck Workshop

(full details follow)


ALSO:

Sept 16-20
OPIRG-Carleton Rad Frosh
http://eepurl.com/E4fZX

Sept 18-21
OPIRG-Ottawa Orientation Week: Connecting to Communities of Resistance
https://www.facebook.com/events/1409090632646548/


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Benefit for the Tennessee Cree (Kevin Schofield)
6-9pm, Friday Sept 13
Victoria Island

Iconic singer/songwriter, wordsmith and proud aboriginal community member
Kevin Schofield (AKA: The Tennessee Cree) has recently suffered a major
brain aneurysm. While survival-wise at this point in time he is looking
good...the road to recovery will be a long and hard one indeed.
We are having this fundraiser to assist his family in coming down from his
native community of Moose Factory to care for him.

There will be award winning music and dance both traditional and
contemporary, Inuit games demonstrations and Throat-singing, drumming,
spoken word, a silent art auction and more to come.

Contact: davidfinkledrums at hotmail.com if you are willing to help.
We are recommending a 15 dollar donation at the door at this point and time.

Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/368635269930039/


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First Nation Men's & Women's Rally to End Violence
Saturday Sept 14, 1-4pm
location TBA

This event is to honor Indigenous women and men who will be taking an
initiative to stop violence against all, and to improve the well-being of
our children, families and communities. Please join us in a collective
effort with the Nishiyuu Men by sharing our healing words in a form of a
declaration to restore our rights to for respect, mind, body and soul from
our each other. Lets share our healing words in rally of what is needed to
raise strong children, families and communities. We need to take charge
and correct the inter-generational impacts of violence that has been
impacting our co-existence as men and women. Violence has mislead our
people that its time we step up to ensure that Violence stops here, and
that it doesn't carry forth with our children today and the unborn
tomorrow. Let's
sing our songs as men and women in a collective sound, join in round dance
to honor our Ancestor's ways by renewal of the respect, friendship and
peace between women and men needed to change our way of life!

**Details of speakers, drummers will be available when are they are
confirmed by the supporting organizers.
https://www.facebook.com/events/614192258611409


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ANDREA SMITH in Ottawa: Indigenous Feminists are Too Sexy for Your
Heteropatriarchal Setter Colonialism!
Saturday Sept 14, 1pm
251 Bank St, 2nd floor

Andrea Smith is a co-founder of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
and the Boarding School Healing Coalition. She is the author of Conquest
and editor of the Revolution Will Not Be Funded.

She will be speaking in the Octopus Books/ 251community space (which is
wheelchair accessible).

Donations will be accepted for Octopus Books and Families of Sisters in
Spirit.

There will also be snacks! See you there :)

Event Hosted by Opirg Carleton, Families of Sisters in Spirit, Octopus Books

https://www.facebook.com/events/176579002527168/


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Odawa Community Talkshow
1-5pm, Sunday Sept 15
Alumni Hall, 85 University Private, U of Ottawa

Niigaan: In Conversation is proud and excited to present a chance to
participate in a discussion about recreating the relationship between
Indigenous and Settler peoples here in the city. Meet local community
organizers and visionaries, share ideas, and add your energy and passion
to making Ottawa a truly indigenized and inclusive city.

Host: Darren Sutherland
Guests: Alexa Lesperance, Jennifer Adese, Ed Bianchi, Neal Freeland, and
others…
Participation by: Kairos, Ecology Ottawa, Native Women’s Association of
Canada, Amnesty International, Odawa Friendship Center, Families of
Sisters in Spirit, and others…

Info: http://niigaan.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/odawa-community-talk-show/
Get your ticket: https://www.eventbrite.ca/event/8137997971


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3rd Annual Kikinàmàgan (Student) Pow Wow
Saturday Sept 21 - Grand Entry at noon
Norm Fenn gym, Carleton University

Admission: Pay-what-you-can ($5 recommended). Funds raised will go towards
the Annual Aboriginal Graduate Honouring Ceremony.

Parking available in lot 3 & 5 ($3 all-day flat rate)
Public transit: OC Transpo bus routes #4, 7 & 111 or the OTrain

Elders: Albert Dumont & Annie Smith-St. Georges
Host Drum: OTown Boys
Invited Drums: Kitchisippi Rini & Lightning Drum Singers

For more information contact Irvin Hill at (613) 520-2600 ext. 6516 or
irvin.hill at carleton.ca

Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/174410812742780


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Rally for the Rideau River - Keep the 613 Tar Free
Sunday Sept 29

We are inviting you to a march, boat-ride, and rally to protect the Rideau
River and the residents of Ottawa from the TransCanada Tar Sands Pipeline!

The plan is to gather Vincent Massey Park at 930am, either walking
alongside or paddling up the Rideau River, and hold a rally at City Hall
starting at 1pm until 3pm.

At the rally we will deliver the petitions we have signed - please sign at
http://ecologyottawa.nationbuilder.com/tar_sands_oil -  as well as a
number of speakers and artists performing.

Please join us at Vincent Massey Park with your canoe or walking shoes, or
later at City Hall, and have your voice heard!

For more information on the pipeline, please see http://TarFree613.ca

Event info: https://www.facebook.com/events/426571874127570


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3rd Annual Families of Sisters in Spirit Vigil
Friday Oct 4

Details TBA

Contact: familiesofsistersinspirit at gmail.com
Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/434834703290763/
To donate: http://familiesofsistersinspirit.com/

ALSO :

List of all Sisters in Spirit vigils across Canada - Oct 4
(126 registered and counting...)
http://www.nwac.ca/www.nwac.ca/2013-vigil-locations

including:
Ottawa – NWAC, Aboriginal Leadership, Organizations and Supporters
– Rally at Parliament Hill @ 12pm , Oct 4


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Idle No More Potluck Workshop
Saturday Oct 19, 9:30am-4pm
Old Forge, 2730 Carling Ave

Please join us for a strength-based workshop at the beautiful Old Forge in
Ottawa. Let’s get together to share our passion and information. We all
have a perspective to share, stories full of wisdom (even if we don’t
realize it) and the need to feel connected to something greater than our
individual selves. Also, we all love good food!

SPECIAL GUEST: Brilliant CBC broadcast journalist, and writer, Waubgeshig
Rice will be paying a visit to the workshop to share his analysis of how
the Idle No More movement has evolved, based on his extensive coverage of
Idle No More since its inception.

Registration and full information can be found at:
 https://spiritbridgeworkshops.eventbrite.ca/
The workshop is being hosted by Spirit Bridge - http://www.spiritbridge.ca
. Brigitte, its founder, can be reached at info at spiritbridge.ca or by
phone at (613) 818-8130.