Sunday June 21, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Join Taiaiako’n Historical Preservation Society on National Indigenous Peoples Day at the High Park Nature Centre OURSpace Garden for the planting of a Sacred Sunflower Circle, and art happening/ceremony in three parts. The Sunflower Circle, an earthwork conceived of by Catherine Tammaro (Spotted Turtle Clan FaithKeeper; Wyandot of Anderdon Nation) and Joce Two-Crows Tremblay (Beaver Clan; Great Lakes metis/Wendat), represents a practice of placekeeping on the north shore of Lake Ontario. With this Sunflower Circle we honor the four directions and our place within the sacred multiverse including the inseparable All: Time, Space, Love and Creation.
THPS members, Donna Powless (Snipe Clan, Cayuga of the Six Nations) and Sam Charral (Bear Clan; Wendat/Cree) will join Tammaro and Tremblay in ceremony which honours the Circle and the Sacred Land of High Park, which is home to cultural sites of great spiritual significance to Onkwehonwe Peoples and the Ancestral energies of this space. THPS Member and Settler Accomplice, Kim Jackson, will be honouring MMIW2sT+ by tying red prayer strips in the small tree inside the circle during the ceremony. Our planting ceremony, we deepen our shared awareness and connection to the Indigenous re-storying of these Lands in spiritually generated art making and activation.
Thank you to the Department of Canadian Heritage for funding this event.
Free
Platform: Zoom.
For More info and to RSVP to receive the Zoom link and password on the June 21: https://highparknaturecentre.com/special-events
Sunflower illustration by Catherine Tammaro©2020