The closing event of the Ginawadaganac workshop series will take place on Saturday, June 29. The celebration of the workshop series "Ginawadaganac: Strengthening Our Connections" will close the year's workshops that were held each month from June 2018-2019. We hope that our workshops will continue to facilitate access to Algonquin knowledge to strengthen our connections with each other and with nature.

Ginawadaganac is an understanding within Algonquin law which refers to the interconnectedness of all things, including human beings, non-humans, and the environment. The project’s main goal was to foster interconnectedness and cultural capacity among diverse groups of people, by bringing different community members in the Ottawa valley together for cultural learning and arts-based workshops.

This invitation is open to every human and pet. We look forward to celebrating our achievement with folks at Plenty Canada!

The event will run on Saturday from 12pm-7pm. It will include many exciting things such as:
11-12pm: Welcoming with drumming;
12-3pm: Deer Hide tanning; drumming and drum teachings;
3-6pm: A Summer Feast with traditional Algonquin foods such as wild rice, maple syrup, berries and bison burgers; Algonquin Language Booklet presentation; A power point presentation to summarize and review the year's completed workshops
6-7pm: A pipe ceremony to close this year's workshop series in a good way.

When:
Saturday June, 29th
From 11am - 7pm

Where:
Plenty Canada,
266 Plenty Lane,
Lanark, Ontario ​

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Plenty Canada attended the Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival in Ottawa at Vincent Massey Park last weekend!  We enjoyed sharing information about out mission and our exciting upcoming opportunities with our guests. We met very interesting people who are ready to work with Indigenous Peoples for the protection of our environment for future generations, and these are the people that Plenty Canada counts on.
We enjoyed the Powwow and all of the performers that helped us celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ incredible language and culture on traditional Algonquin territory. Meegwetch, thank you to all the organizers and volunteers who made this festival the success that it was. We look forward to seeing you again next year!

The workshops held on May 25 and 26 was another outstanding success!
We hope everyone enjoyed the opportunity to learn about the sacred medicines, birch bark etching, and hiding tanning in a multicultural, intergenerational and supportive environment.

At the workshop, we had the chance to meet and learn from Larry McDermott, from Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation, and Chuck Commanda, from Kitigan Zibi First Nation about the Algonquin crafts involving birch bark, about the four sacred medicines, Sweetgrass, Sage, Tobacco, and Cedar, and their ceremonial uses. 
We had fun etching the canoe with Jessie-Anne Sarazin who is also a First Nation's languages speaker and artist!
We were also very fortunate to learn from Jessie-Anne's husband, Barry Sarazin, from Pikwakanagan First Nation, how to tan hides! Barry taught, demonstrated, and instructed the participants on how to tan a deer hide. Barry also shared the concepts of hide tanning, scared medicines, and birch bark canoe making in the Algonquin language.

We would like to thank our guests for your for participation, involvement, and the spirit everyone brought which added precious value to the workshop! We would also like to thank everyone who shared this event with other community members and your interest in our workshops.

Stay tuned for the last workshop of the "Ginawaydaganuk: Strengthening Our Connections" series at the end of June!