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Aboriginal Day main facilitator, Terry Point, Musqueam Nation Cultural educator.
Photo courtesy City of Richmond
Aboriginal Day celebrations at City Centre Community Centre on Saturday
This Saturday, June 17 from 2 to 4 p.m.,
locals are invited to the City Centre Community Centre to celebrate Aboriginal
Day.
Recognizing this land wasn’t empty when
settlers arrived and that this land remains unceded, Saturday’s celebration of
First Nations’ culture will feature examples of the lush culture in the region
before European colonization.
A drumming ceremony led by Shoshone Elder,
Old Hands, will kick-off the time of the afternoon’s recognition and learning
while Snuneymuxw and Cowichan Elder, Roberta Price, will offer blessings.
Fara Palmer and the SisterClan, Richmond’s
own Aboriginal pop, R B and soul singer-songwriter, from the Cree,
Ojibwe, Secwepemc and Dakelh Nations, will offer their music while two youth
dancers Naomi Black from the Tsikene and Oji-Cree Nations, and Tristian Bruyere
from the Salish and Ojibway Nations will share dances from their heritages,
The program’s main facilitator is Terry
Point, Cultural Educator from the Musqueam First Nation. Aboriginal Day celebrations will mark
the completion of a piece of art, the result of collaborative sessions led by
Point earlier in June.
The artwork represents Richmond’s growing
First Nations community that builds on the roots of the Musqueam.
The finished piece will first be displayed at
City Centre Community Centre for Canada 150 before finding a permanent home at
Richmond City Hall.
Aboriginal Day, hosted by the City Centre
Community Association, the City of Richmond’s Diversity Services Department,
hopes to forge links between our First Peoples and the settler population in
Richmond.
City Centre Community Centre is located
at 5900 Minoru Blvd. For more information about this event, call 604-204-8588
or visit www.mycitycentre.org.
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