4th Spirit Matters Gathering - Honouring Indigenous Worlds

August 24-26, 2012 OISE, University of Toronto

Schedule

4^th Spirit Matters: Honouring Indigenous Worlds

Revisioned Programme

Friday August 24 to Sunday 26th, 2012

Friday August 24: In This Present Moment

All gathering events will be on the Fifth Floor at OISE, 252 Bloor Street West (St George Subway). Access to building available from subway. All Friday night events in Community Room

6:00 to 7:00pm
Meet, Greet & Register. OISE 5^th Floor. Name tags for all participants available. Refreshments. Schedule on Wall. Altar pieces, give-aways, images of ancestors and resource materials can be dropped off. Drums and other instruments to Community Room (CR).

6:30 to 7:00pm
Heartbeat of Sound (Larry Nusbaum and friends)

7:00 to 7:30pm
Opening; When, Where and Who are gathered here.

Welcome and Intro Video (Ed O’Sullivan and Eimear O’Neill)

7:30 to 8:00 pm
Invocation of Spirit and the Ancestors; Ritual and Ceremony to celebrate our being together. (Diane Longboat Six Nations, with Mayan Elders Apolinaro Chile Pixton, Eduardo Gomez and other indigenous elders)

8 to 9:30 pm
Honouring Indigenous Worlds: Visionary Learning Under the Fifth Sun (Indigenous Elders begin the Conversation)

9:30 pm
Gathering of Waters with Drumming by Soul of the Mother Six Nations

Saturday August 25, 2012: Becoming a Learning Community

8:30 to 9am
Heartbeat of Sound (Larry Nusbaum and friends) (Smudge at door) (CR)

9:00 to 10.15am
Brief Invocation honouring our shared African source (Belvie Rooks, Adegboyega Najeem Hammed and Njoki Wane). Community invocation brings each voice in with their ancestors. (CR)

10:15 to 10:30am
Break after brief intro to Circles (CR)

10:30 to 12 noon
Theme Circles: Core Actions and Challenges (Themes on Each Room)

12 to 1:30 p.m
Catered Lunch and Conversations (Feast Room)

1:30 to 3:15pm
Conversation Cafes: Community resourcing of projects and visions (Multiple facilitators and rooms)

3:15 to 3:30pm
Break and Embodied Movement

3:30 to 5:00pm
Occupying Our Destinies; Stepping into Our Collective Future (CR)

5:00 to 6:00pm
Break. Opportunity for outside reverence walk, chats.

6:00 to 7.30pm
Catered Evening Meal and Conversations (FR)

7:30 to 11pm
OPEN Mike Soirée: Joyous Celebration, Music, Poetry and more.

Please list by 6pm if you have an offering. (CR)

Sunday August 26, 2012L Taking Our Place in This Time

All Sunday events will be in the Community Room until we go outside together.

9:30 to 10:00am
Smudge at door; Creative initatives (“Symbiosis” in CR, Videos and art from Turtle Island, Africa, Hawaii, Ireland and around the planet)

10:00 to 10:15am
Opening Invocation and Ritual

(Diane Longboat, Apolanaro Chile Pixton and Eduardo Gomez)

10:15 to 11:15am
The Fifth Sun: Moving Forward with Vision, Passion and Spirit

(Four Arrows, Belvie Rooks, Eimear O’Neill and Ed O’Sullivan)

11:15 to 11:30am
Break and Movement

11:30 to 1:00pm
Full Assembly: Personal Commitments for 2012 and Beyond

Final Celebratory Event and Ending Ritual