Come to the Ma-Mow-We-Tak Friendship Centre Friday, September 29th for the 8th Annual Orange Shirt Day hosted by the Keewatin Tribal Council!
The schedule is as follows:
7:00am: Pipe Ceremony with Hector Spence & Rose Hart
8:00am: Registration and Breakfast
8:30am: Introductions and Emcee with Yvonne Beardy
Honor Song for Survivors/Family/Relatives with Elder Paul McKay
Opening Drum Song with Adam
8:45am: KTC Grand Chief, Walter Wastesicoot
KTC CEO, George Neepin
KTC Health Director, John Spence
Mayor of Thompson, Colleen Smook
Representative of Vale, Donelda Parenteau
Mary Azure-Laubmann
9:30am: Key note speaker, UCN Ida Moore
10:30am: Health break, snacks included
10: 45am: A Survivors Story: Larry Beardy
12:00pm: Lunch to be provided
1:15pm: Inter-generational Survivor’s Story: Gordon McGillivary
2:15pm: Health break, snacks included
2:30pm: Open Mic with Survivors, Knowledge Keepers and Elders
3:30pm: Birthday Cake for those children that never had a birthday and hanging out with candies
Closing Prayer and Travelling Song with Mary Azure- Laubmann
The Thompson Seniors Community Resource Council presents a performance by Damien James. Damien combines all of his unique skills of special effects make-up, ventriloquism, magic, state of the art puppetry and animatronics to create an unforgettable, one-of-a-kind show to entertain all ages!
The show will take place on Friday, September 29th at the Letkemann Theatre starting at 7:00pm. Advance tickets are $30 each while tickets sold at the door are $40.