This week, aboriginal students from School District 57 will attend an Aboriginal Youth Conference.
It will be the first time since 2015 that the conference will be held. Students from Valemount and 14 Prince George schools have registered to attend with a total of 120 students expected to participate in the day’s events.
“This is for our Aboriginal students to come together with other Aboriginal students in the district to celebrate their culture,” said Patricia Lunden, Youth Leadership Foci for the Aboriginal Education Department.
The conference will take place on Friday, with an opening ceremony scheduled at 9:15 a.m. at the Canfor Theatre located on the campus of UNBC.
The theme for the conference, which will be for students from Grades 7 through 10, is Empowering Our Youth. The day will include two sessions of workshops for the students to attend.
Speakers for the day will include Imani Miller (Growing and Learning to the Four Directions), Godwin H. Barton (Resiliency: Though Music, Stories, and Poetry), Tracy Peters (Regalia, Meaning and Songs), Cristian Silva (Over A Hundred Years of Residential Schools in Canada), April Hendrickson (The Masks We Lives In), Fiona Prince (Healing Salves), Noelle Pepin (Maker Hour), Ronnie West (Oral Histories and Traditions), Michael Antoine (Drumming/Feather Painting), Chris Brannigan (Moose Hide Campaign: Building Healthy Relationships), UNBC Student Recruitment/Research Ambassadors (Anything Can Inspire Research, We’ll Teach You How).
In the second session of workshops, a majority of the presenters from the first session will present again. Also, the UNBC Student Ambassadors will take students on a guided tour of the UNBC campus.
School Board 57’s Aboriginal Education Department are the organizers for the event.
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