Aboriginal Awareness Week

As part of the Aboriginal Awareness Week, the Aboriginal Health Interest Group at the University of Ottawa's  Faculty of Medicine, invites you to attend the following events at Roger Guindon Hall, located at 451 Smith Road, behind the General Hospital.

• Monday, January 16 at 12:30 - Room 2005 - Presentations by Patrick Laflèche and Jonathan Ferrier on Traditional Medicine
• Tuesday, January 17, at 4:30 - Room 3248 - Sabrina Squires and Renée Vachon, Aboriginal students in their second year of Medicine will talk about their experience working in remote Aboriginal communities.
• Tuesday, January 17, at 5:30 - Room 3248 - Throat Singing Workshop with Lynda Brown
• Wednesday, January 18, at 1:30 - Room 2149 - Showing of Andrée Cazabon's documentary film "Third World Canada" depicting the plight of many First Nations by focusing on the isolated and poverty-stricken community of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (K.I.) in Ontario.
• Thursday, January 19, at 5:30 - Cindy Blackstock,  Executive Director of First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada<http://www.fncaringsociety.com/> (FNCFC), who  has been one of the country's most committed activists for First Nations children.

For more information, please contact: ottawaahig@gmail.com

Thank You. Che Meegwitch.

Conférences en Études Autochtones - Guy Sioui-Durand - 13 Jan 12h-14h

Aboriginal Studies Conference - Tanya Harnett - Jan 19th 4-5:30

Subject: NAC's all-Aboriginal King Lear!

Kwey, Aanii, Tansi, Sago, Bonjour, and Hello!

I want to extend an invitation to a one-of-a-kind opportunity to participate in
the National Arts Centre's (NAC) spring production of an all-Aboriginal King
Lear! (It stars August Schellenberg & Tantoo Cardinal, with Kevin
Loring, Lorne Cardinal & many others!)


NAC's Artistic Director, Peter Hinton, is looking to cast
50 extras from the local, Ottawa, urban Aboriginal population for the show and
will offer a 3 part theatre training workshop starting at the
beginning of January 2012. Workshops will take place at the NAC on
Sunday afternoons (for the first part), then move to most-likely
Tuesday evenings (part 2). The third component will of course be the
actual rehearsal period & production run, taking us to the end of May.


This is a wonderful opportunity for local First Nation, Metis & Inuit
theatre enthusiasts - young & old- to work with a wide variety of top
 professionals, and shine - in 17th century period costume- on the NAC stage!

If you are interested, please let me know.There will also be an
announcement for an invitation to the Info/Intro Session - for which
we have yet to set the date (beginning of Jan) - for all details &
dates, etc. to be further discussed.


Please share with anyone from our local Aboriginal community who would
like to learn more about theatre, about Shakespeare, about the NAC,
and "hang" with some professional artists!


No experience necessary!

Watch for an upcoming announcement re the "50 Followers Project" in
the Ottawa Citizen next week!

in unity & spirit,

Suzanne Keeptwo
skeeptwo@gmail.com

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