[Indigsol] Upcoming events: Feb/March & May/June

Mon Feb 23 15:13:23 PST 2015

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*Law’s Role in Canada’s Disgrace: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women =
with speaker Pamela Palmater*

Tuesday Feb 24 - 11:30am to 12:50pm
U of Ottawa - FTX 302, Fauteux Hall, 57 Louis-Pasteur

Free - lunch included - all are welcome

http://uocal.uottawa.ca/en/node/10255

https://ipsmo.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/feb24-mmiw-pampalmater.jpg

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*Aboriginal Community Forum*

Tuesday Feb 24 - 5:50pm to 8pm
Jean Piggot Place (Ottawa City Hall)

Ottawa Aboriginal Coalition proudly invites you to "Take an Indoor/Virtual
Tour Through Our Community Organizations"

The Ottawa Aboriginal Coalition consists of many organizations throughout
the Ottawa area.

https://www.facebook.com/events/384081211762699

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*MARCH / RALLY to save Odawa's 510 Drop-In Centre*

Wednesday Feb 25, 10am at Parliament Hill Flame
... and then on to Ottawa City Hall

https://ipsmo.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/save-odawas-510dropin/
- link includes background info, and poster/flyer pdfs to print

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*Contemporary Conversation with Marie Watt*

February 26 at 6pm
National Gallery of Canada, Auditorium

Marie and the Gallery’s Audain Curator of Indigenous Art, Greg Hill, will
talk about Watt’s work Skywalker/Skyscraper (Babel).

Please RSVP by 24 February; space is limited: rsvp at gallery.ca or
613-991-6516. Free Admission. In English with simultaneous translation.

http://www.gallery.ca/conversations/

https://www.facebook.com/events/889542954418566

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*International Indigenous Festival with The Art History Students
Association of uOttawa Presents:  A Night of 'Shorts'*

Thursday Feb 26, 6:30pm to 8pm
Room 114, 100 Laurier Ave

Short films by or starring Indigenous actors, actresses and directors.

The event is FREE but we will be accepting donations to go towards
activities for the festival, and there will also be a bake sale!

Can't make it for 6:30? Don't worry! You can drop in throughout the night!

https://www.facebook.com/events/707907382641537

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*Peoples’ GatheringMissing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls*
Friday, February 27th, 9am – 5pm
Carleton University, Residence Commons

Registration is FREE. Please contact Gina Doxtator, Assembly of First
Nations, at gdoxtator at afn.ca to pre-register. Registration will also take
place on site.

http://www.afn.ca/uploads/files/peoples_gathering_fact_sheet_poster_fe.pdf

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*MMIW Action - Ottawa*

Friday Feb 27, Parliament 12noon to 3pm

details fuzzy

https://www.facebook.com/events/348712841983783

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*Walking With Our Sisters - Pipe Ceremony*

Date: Friday February 27 at 7pm
Location: The Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, 299 Montreal Rd.

This Community Pipe Ceremony will take place on the same date as the
National Roundtable Discussions on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
(MMIW).

Everyone is welcome to attend! Please bring blankets or cushions to sit on,
some chairs will be provided.

https://ipsmo.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/feb27-mmiw-walkingwithoursisters.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/events/1045514138798170

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*New Sun Conference on Aboriginal Arts: Life Lived Like a Story*

Saturday Feb 28, 9am to 4:30pm
Room 5050, 5th floor Minto Centre, Carleton Univ

Registration: Students/seniors $45; non-students $80 (HST included).
Includes a gourmet luncheon of Native cuisine and the Digging Roots band in
concert/ To register, call 613-520-2600, ext. 4035, or e-mail
allan.ryan at carleton.ca

For a registration form and more information visit www.trickstershift.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/844230565620287

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*Open Meeting for the IPSM Ottawa*

Saturday, February 28 at 2pm
McNabb Community Center, Community Room - 180 Percy St
ipsmo at riseup.net

https://www.facebook.com/events/357014747833586/

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*Planning Meeting for Freeing Chaudiere Falls and its Islands*

Sunday March 8, 6pm - 9:30pm
Kitchissippi United Church, 630 Island Park Dr

All of the committees will be getting together to sense our way forward.
Meet at 6 p.m. for potluck. Circle begins at 7 p.m.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1632859823608771

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*INDIGENIUS ARTS, MUSIC, AND FASHION SHOW*

Saturday, March 14 at 7:00pm
Centrepointe Theatres in Ottawa, Ontario

$20 Advance Tickets
$25 At The Door
$40 At The Door w/ INDIGENIUS ALBUM
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/indigenius-arts-music-and-fashion-show-tickets-15573836765

https://www.facebook.com/events/1539388242992597

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*All Nations Laugher: A Benefit for Odawa Native Friendship Centre*

Saturday March 28, 7pm and 9pm (two shows)
Odawa NFC, 250 City Centre Ave

For more information please contact Jenn Hayward at (613) 413-6317. This is
sure to be a sell out so get yours today!

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/all-nations-laughter-tickets-15541761828

https://www.facebook.com/events/515942675210791

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*NAWK 2015 - Healing Rage Ottawa*

Saturday March 28 - Sunday March 29
Heron Road Community Centre, 1480 Heron Rd

Noojimo' Annish Wenjigdaazod Kitchisippi (NAWK) will be a place for Black,
Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) to come together to learn and
unlearn, to speak and to listen, to meditate and to feel and altogether to
come out with new friends, new ways of doing things and new ways to view
the world we live in.

http://www.nawk.org/

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*ONGOING*

Tuesday February 3rd, 2015 to Sunday March 29th, 2015

*Cube Gallery presents the work of Daphne Odjig*—a recipient of the Order
of Canada, a winner of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media
Arts and at 95 years old, still one of Canada’s most distinguished artists.
Odjig’s free-hand, sweeping imagery depicts First Nations culture—past and
present—traditions and mythology.

The Cube Gallery - 1285 Wellington W - Ottawa, Ontario

http://cubegallery.ca/exhibitions/2015_02_03_daphne_odjig

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*UPCOMING - SAVE THE DATES*

*The closing events of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission* (TRC) on
Indian Residential Schools in Canada

Friday May 29 - Wednesday June 3

Official details will be posted soon at www.trc.ca

But for now, national Ottawa-based faith organization KAIROS has put
together a tentative list of events:
http://www.kairoscanada.org/get-involved/schedule-in-ottawa/

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