Thursday, February 6, 2025 @ 8:00 am – Friday, February 7, 2025 @ 5:00 pm
Hello, Boozhoo, Tansi, Aaniin, Wotziye, Ho/Han, Tawnshi, Asujutill, Bonjour!
Warm greetings from the Manitoba Collaborative Indigenous Education Blueprint (MCIEB)!
Join us February 6 & 7, 2025 for our 3rd Annual Gathering at the Victoria Inn Hotel and Convention Centre, in Winnipeg Manitoba. Registration is closed. If you wish to join us, but haven’t secured a spot, please add you name to the waitlist by emailing Sheri Domenico at [email protected].
Objectives:
The Gathering is a confluence of Elders, educators, students, community leaders, policy makers, and advocates, invested in fostering important dialogue, exchanging knowledge, and cultivating partnerships centered on Indigenous education.
Over both days there will be breakout room presentations and a student panel. Discover innovative thinking and approaches around these critical issues:
1. “Indigenizing” Curriculum – Are we getting it right?
Are Indigenous ways of knowing, being, doing foundational, integrated, or merely incorporated into our educational, organizational, and institutional social structures?
2. Indigenous Identity Verification/Fraud –Preserving Indigenous identity amidst growing concerns.
How do we ensure funding, positions and initiatives intended to create substantive equality remain rightfully with Indigenous peoples during a time when people are still “coming home”?
We are excited to announce Métis multidisciplinary artist Moe Clark is our Keynote speaker! âpihtawikosisâniskwêw (Métis/ mixed-settler) multidisciplinary artist Moe Clark is a 2Spirit singing thunderbird. She works across disciplines of vocal improvisation, creative arts facilitation, land-based oskapêwis support, and performance creation, to create work that centres embodied knowledge, 2Spirit Indigenous resurgence, and creative kinship. As a composer, Moe’s music and voice have appeared in documentaries, films, theatre and dance performances alike. Her last solo album “Within” toured across North America and her collaborative video poem “nitahkôtân” won best Indigenous language music video at the ImagiNative film festival. www.moeclark.ca
Join us for this incredible event!
Interested in presenting? We are now accepting proposals for breakout room presentations. Join us in shaping discussions surrounding these critical issues. We’re eager to hear from you!
To submit your proposal please follow the link to fill out the form: https://forms.office.com/r/iPBFyYjiXh . Deadline: November 29, 2024.
To nominate a student, please follow the link to fill out the rorm: https://forms.office.com/r/FZKPF5zPW3 Deadline: November 29, 2024.