Honoring the bees. Building Community. Because culture is treatment.

Kwey / Boozhoo / She:kon / Aaniin / Salut / Hello / Bonjour
Friends, I hope you may join us for an informal gathering and medicine walk as we celebrate the bees and other pollinators, and learn about their cultural significance to Indigenous peoples. This is the first of what I hope will be many celebrations of the bees, the animal people, and All Our Relations.
David Gorman will hold the responsibility of Firekeeper for our Ceremony. David is Mohawk and an off-reserve member of Six Nations of the Grand River, currently residing in Kingston with his family. Colleen Gray will pay respect to the heartbeat of Mother Earth through her beautiful drumming and singing. Colleen is of Mi’kmaq/Acadian/Irish descent. An artist and advocate, Colleen founded the Art for Aid Project in 2013. Art For Aid supports First Nations, Inuit and Métis art education in remote communities through provision of quality art and winter program supplies.
All are welcome. Please bring your drum and join us.
The Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health will bring two busloads of its program participants as part of its land-based programming. The cultural plan when they arrive is for Grandma Sharon to do a circle, a prayer of gratitude, and together we will lay tobacco.
Grandma Sharon will share a teaching about bees, followed by a short introduction to the space, the bee keeping and garden programs at The Table Community Food Centre, and a medicine walk along the Healing Forest Trail with Jamie Spence, Wabano’s land-based educator. The Tay River flows by the location, and there are washrooms on site.
Please bring your own lunch, beverage, blankets and chairs. Bring your drum to join us.
Date C Arrival: August 6, between 10:30 and 11:00 am. 10:30 is recommended. Come earlier if you would like to help set up. Wabano participants expect to depart by 1:30 pm but please stay to visit, to share, to strengthen relations, and to build community.
Location: The Indigenous Healing Circle; the Healing Forest Trail, and The Table Community Food Gardens, situated on the traditional and unceded territories of the Omàmìwininì
(Algonquin) Peoples. Mailing address is Last Duel Park, 22 Craig Street, Perth, Ontario.
***Construction on Craig Street, please access the Healing Circle from Brock Street.
For information, to share a teaching, or to collaborate for future events, please contact Celina, Indigenous Care Navigator, Perth Family Health Team – because culture is treatment. celinat@perthfht.ca, 343-322-6800