September 30, 2022 marks the 2nd annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and Waterloo's Office of Indigenous Relations has a number of events and learning opportunities available for the University of Waterloo campus community. Coming up:
Sept 24: Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre 19th Annual Traditional Pow-wow
Please join us at Waterloo Park for this celebration of Indigenous culture and beauty. Witness the good medicine of dancing, drumming and singing, visit the vendors, and participate in an intertribal dance! Grounds open at 10:00 AM with Grand Entry at 12:00 PM!
All are welcome!
To find out more, please visit https://fb.me/e/1LhEHVlY3
Sept 26: Indigenous Speakers Series presents Jani Lauzon and Kaitlyn Riordan
The Indigenous Speakers Series proudly presents Jani Lauzon, director and playwright, and Kaitlyn Riordan, playwright, whose co-created play 1939 is running at the Stratford Festival this season.
Lauzon and Riordan will speak to their unique process of engaging community and support from Elders and Knowledge Keepers, with a lens to the work of Indigenous artists and activists over the last 100 years, used to develop 1939.
To learn more about this event, please visit: https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/events/indigenous-speakers-series-presents-jani-lauzon-and-kaitlyn
For more information on 1939 please visit the Stratford Festival website - https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/WhatsOn/PlaysandEvents/Production/1939
For Indigenous students, staff, and faculty of the University of Waterloo, specially priced tickets and transportation is offered by the Stratford Festival and the Faculty of Arts, to find out how to access these tickets please email indigenousrelations@uwaterloo.ca
*This story originally appeared in the Renison Newsletter.