BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lanark County Neighbours for Truth and Reconciliation - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Lanark County Neighbours for Truth and Reconciliation X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://lanarkcountyneighbours.ca X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Lanark County Neighbours for Truth and Reconciliation REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240930T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240930T173000 DTSTAMP:20260501T003704 CREATED:20240113T001139Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240823T000430Z UID:30-1727717400-1727717400@lanarkcountyneighbours.ca SUMMARY:Perth Orange Shirt Day Ceremony DESCRIPTION:Join us for a time of education and reflection as we remember the experiences of the Indigenous children who attended Residential Schools.\nThe ceremony will be directed by local Indigenous Elders and include Pipe Ceremony and drumming.\n\n\nMedia Release: Orange Shirt Day \nSeptember 30th is Orange Shirt Day and it originated from the amazing courage shown by an Indigenous Woman named Phyllis Jack Webstad who\, in the spring of 2013\, dared to tell her experiences of being at Residential School. Phyllis has said\, “When you wear an Orange Shirt\, it’s like a bit of justice for us survivors in our lifetime and recognition of a system that we can never allow again.” \nIt is hard for us even to imagine a school system designed to hurt and harm children. The residential school program designed by the Colonial and Canadian Governments forcibly took children from their homes\, denied contact with their parents\, punished them for speaking their own language\, shamed them for their culture and beliefs and treated them shamefully. The main objective was to assimilate Indigenous people into the colonial system at any cost. Yet\, this is exactly what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission confirmed was the truth. \nBeginning in the fall of 1831 Indigenous families could expect a knock on the door. The local officials had arrived and the truck was ready to leave. The children must go. \nWe cannot imagine that happening to us or our children. \nIn her new book\, North of Nowhere\, Marie Wilson said this about the testimony of survivors\, “Their stories are difficult to hear. Do not flinch. Do not hide. I cannot make it softer for you. This is what I witnessed. This history belongs to all of us.” \nUncovering these truths has rekindled a national reckoning of this traumatic history. The discovery of mass graves of Indigenous Children has vindicated what survivors and their communities have long known. Their combined voices have now been heard and finally acknowledged. Calls for accountability continue to rise across the country from people who are listening and learning about this Canadian Tragedy and our collective part in it. It is a shadow that covers the ground where the Indigenous Children lay buried in places sometimes unknown. But never forgotten by their families and communities. \nThis year on Monday\, September 30th at 5:30 pm\, we invite you to come to the Orange Shirt Day Ceremony to remember and acknowledge the multigenerational trauma caused by the residential school system in Canada. To respect and honour the Survivors and those who did not return home. Please commit to ongoing learning about the Calls to Action\, listen to personal stories\, find the truth\, and be aware. That is the call to action for each of us. \nStand up – Speak Up Every Child Matters \nJoin us at the Indigenous Healing Circle – Perth Healing Forest Memorial Site – 35 Craig Street Perth\, Ontario. We ask that you remember this Day by wearing something Orange. \n Supported by the Lanark County Neighbours for Truth and Reconciliation. \nSupport and Services for those impacted by residential schools are available to you. Please contact the 24–Hour Residential School Crisis Line at 1-866-925-4419 if you need emotional support. URL:https://lanarkcountyneighbours.ca/event/orange-shirt-2024/ LOCATION:Indigenous Healing Circle/ Healing Forest\, Last Dual Park\, Perth\, Ontario\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lanarkcountyneighbours.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/divina-clark-jXlzL79GCYo-unsplash.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240626T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240626T183000 DTSTAMP:20260501T003704 CREATED:20240606T000145Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T000250Z UID:230-1719426600-1719426600@lanarkcountyneighbours.ca SUMMARY:Finding our way to reconciliation by questioning settler history DESCRIPTION:A part of reconciliation should be questioning the ideas that justified settlement and the removal of the First Nations from their lands.  These ideas continue to justify settler ownership and exploitation of 99.8 percent of Canada’s land. This talk will explore some of those ideas through the history of settlement on a tract of land adjacent to Cornwall\, Ontario\, then part of the Akwesasne community’s territory but first rented and then sold to settlers in 1847. This and other parts of what were Akwesasne lands are the subject of ongoing land claims. \nBob MacDermid is a retired York University professor and member of the Lanark County Neighbours for Truth and Reconciliation. URL:https://lanarkcountyneighbours.ca/event/questioning-settler-history-talk/ LOCATION:The Table Community Food Centre\, 190 Gore Street East\, Perth\, Ontario\, K7H1K3\, Canada END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240620T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240620T180000 DTSTAMP:20260501T003704 CREATED:20240604T220818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240604T220833Z UID:226-1718906400-1718906400@lanarkcountyneighbours.ca SUMMARY:Celebrating Summer Solstice Together DESCRIPTION:Mississippi Mills All My Relations (MMAMR) is a group of community members who recognize that we all have a responsibility to help restore what was once a relationship of trust and friendship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples in our country. This year MMAMR is partnering with the Municipality of Mississippi Mills to host a Summer Solstice celebration bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. \nThis celebration\, open to everyone in the community\, will include Indigenous ceremony\, music\, jingle dancing\, crafts\, Inuit games and songs by Almonte’s Rhythm and Song Community Choir. \nDo you have something to contribute? We want to hear from you! We are hoping that some musicians from our community\, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous\, might bring a song or two that celebrates summer solstice and/or mother earth. We are also looking for vendors of crafts and finger foods that are produced honouring mother earth. If you are interested in participating\, please email mm.allmyrelations@gmail.com and tell us about what contribution you would like to make to this celebration. \nJoin us Thursday\, June 20th in Riverfront Park starting at 6pm\, ceremony at 6:30pm. An alternative indoor location will be available in the event of rain. Learn about the dance\, music\, food and rituals of Indigenous peoples and have fun celebrating the longest day of the year together. You’ll also have the chance to explore the Seven Gifts project MMAMR completed last year in Riverfront Park with Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists\, elders\, and knowledge keepers. \n– Miigwetch\, Maarsi\, Qujannamiik\, Thank you. URL:https://lanarkcountyneighbours.ca/event/mmamr-celebrating-summer-solstice-together/ LOCATION:Riverfront Park Almonte\, Almonte\, Ontario\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lanarkcountyneighbours.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/MMAMR-solstice.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240615T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240615T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T003704 CREATED:20240604T215915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240604T220118Z UID:221-1718456400-1718456400@lanarkcountyneighbours.ca SUMMARY:Memorial Installation Ceremony DESCRIPTION:Mississippi Mills All My Relations (MMAMR) is participating in The Canadian Library\, a community-engaged art initiative of 8000 books to honour Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls and 2SLGBTQQTIA+ people. Various small groups in the community have wrapped 120 books with Indigenous-designed fabrics and put gold-lettered names on the spines pay tribute to the lives lost and the grief suffered by their loved ones. The names on the books have been shared by elders and families who want their stories told. Some books remain nameless to honour those who may never have a chance to tell their story. \nOn June 15 at 1pm\, a memorial ceremony will be led by Elder Barb Brant\, Mohawk\, Turtle Clan. The books will come together in one bookcase to be installed at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum. Eventually\, The Canadian Library will decide where the books will be permanently displayed. \nElder Barb Brant\, Mohawk\, Turtle Clan will lead the Ceremony\, with Knowledge Keeper Dylan Jenkins. Tony Belcourt\, Métis Knowledge Keeper and Elder\, and Mayor Christa Lowry will provide welcoming addresses. We will read and honour the names of those represented on the books. Seating capacity is 75. Please register by clicking the link June15Ceremony.eventbrite.ca\, to ensure you have a seat. Once seating capacity is reached\, people are encouraged to join for standing room only. This free event will last about an hour. \nThe bookcase will remain at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum until a permanent home is determined for it by The Canadian Library. \n“Through Art. We Reconcile\, Reconnect\, & Rebuild.”\nThe Canadian Library URL:https://lanarkcountyneighbours.ca/event/mmamr-memorial-installation-ceremony/ LOCATION:Mississippi Valley Textile Museum\, 3 Rosamond Street East\, Mississippi Mills\, Ontario\, K0A 1A0\, Canada END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240609T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240609T150000 DTSTAMP:20260501T003704 CREATED:20240603T110232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240603T112013Z UID:216-1717938000-1717945200@lanarkcountyneighbours.ca SUMMARY:Drum Circle for Indigenous Heritage Month DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Indigenous Heritage Month\, we invite all community to gather at Perth’s Indigenous Healing Circle. We will hold a drum circle with members of the Lanark Drum Circle and enjoy songs and their teachings. Come and experience the heartbeat of Mother Earth and join us in a round dance. Drum\, sticks & rattles to loan for the circle. No experience needed\, as we all learn from each other in the circle. \nNO BARRIERS – ALL AGES\, GENDER & NATION WELCOME URL:https://lanarkcountyneighbours.ca/event/drum-circle-heritage-month-2024/ LOCATION:Indigenous Healing Circle/ Healing Forest\, Last Dual Park\, Perth\, Ontario\, Canada ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://lanarkcountyneighbours.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Indigenous-Heritage-Month-invite_page-0001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240505T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240505T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T003704 CREATED:20240420T180534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240425T180758Z UID:82-1714914000-1714914000@lanarkcountyneighbours.ca SUMMARY:Red Dress Day Ceremony DESCRIPTION:May 5th is the National Day of Awareness in Canada for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women\, Girls\, and Two-Spirit People. (MMIWG2S) In May 2019\, the National Inquiry on MMIWG2S report was released and it concluded that the murder and disappearance of Indigenous Women and Girls is an ongoing genocide. \nStatistics tell us that more Native Women go missing and are murdered each year compared to women from all other groups. Native Women are two and a half times more likely to experience violent crimes\, and at least two times more likely to experience rape or sexual assault crimes compared to others. 4 out of 5 Native Women have experienced violence. Native Women face murder rates 10 times above the national average. The murder rate for Native Women is about three times more than for non-Indigenous Women. It continues today and it must stop! \nIs this not a reason to Stand Up and say No More? \nPlease stand with us as we encourage all community members to honour this day by attending a Red Dress Day Ceremony near where you live\, displaying a Red Dress in your window or front yard\, and wearing red. We want to see participation from as many people\, homes\, and businesses as possible. Post pictures to your social media using hashtags such as #MMIWG\, @MMIWG2S\, #WhyWeWearRed\, and #NoMoreStolenSisters. \nWe also invite the community to attend the Red Dress Ceremony here with us in Perth at the Indigenous Healing Circle – National Healing Forest Memorial Site at 35 Craig Street\, Perth\, Ontario. The Lanark Drum Circle will be offering traditional ceremonial songs\, and there will be speakers and families of murdered or missing women and girls will be attending. \nSupported by the Lanark County Neighbours for Truth and Reconciliation. \nYou can connect with the MMIWGTS+ support line at 1-844-413-6649. This line is available free of charge\, 24 hours a day\, 7 days a week. \nWe need to continue to bring awareness to the ongoing tragedy of this issue because the rate of disappearance and murders of Native People\, particularly Women and Girls and Two-Spirit People goes virtually unnoticed until we decide to: \nStand Up and Make Change and Protect Women and Girls. URL:https://lanarkcountyneighbours.ca/event/red-dress-day-2024/ LOCATION:Indigenous Healing Circle/ Healing Forest\, Last Dual Park\, Perth\, Ontario\, Canada END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230611T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230611T140000 DTSTAMP:20260501T003704 CREATED:20240426T223228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T223228Z UID:199-1686481200-1686492000@lanarkcountyneighbours.ca SUMMARY:Indigenous Plaque Dedication Ceremony DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this important event. RSVP required here:\nhttps://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/the-table-community-food-centre/events/honoring-chief-shawinipinessi-plaque-dedication/ \nAlgonquins of Bedford\, Oso and South Sherbrooke – Plaque Dedication\nSunday\, 11 June 2023 from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM\, ABC Hall 3166 Bolingbroke Rd. \, Maberly\, K0H 2B0 URL:https://lanarkcountyneighbours.ca/event/indigenous-plaque-dedication-ceremony/ LOCATION:ABC Hall\, 3166 Bolingbroke Rd\, Maberly\, Ontario\, K0H 2B0\, Canada END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230604T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230604T150000 DTSTAMP:20260501T003704 CREATED:20240426T223552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T223656Z UID:203-1685883600-1685890800@lanarkcountyneighbours.ca SUMMARY:Inauguration of the Indigenous Healing Circle DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, June 4th at the Indigenous Healing Circle in Perth’s Last Duel Park at 22 Craig Street.\nCeremony begins at 1pm.\nThe inauguration ceremony will be followed by a cultural celebration to honour Indigenous History Month.\nTraditional Indigenous Songs with the Lanark Drum Circle\, demo dancing\, crafts workshops\, round dance\, small feast and giveway.\nALL ARE WELCOME! URL:https://lanarkcountyneighbours.ca/event/inauguration-of-the-indigenous-healing-circle/ LOCATION:Indigenous Healing Circle/ Healing Forest\, Last Dual Park\, Perth\, Ontario\, Canada END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR