Manitoba Moon Voices Inc.

09/22/2025

🔸🔶CALL OUT FOR YOUTH🔶🔸

We are looking for Indigenous Youth (29under / women, girls, 2S and gender diverse individuals) to attend an 🔸Orange Shirt Day Event 🔸 on Monday, September 29, 2025 (10-1 pm).

After the event, we then would like to conduct a short video recorded interview with you on "truth & reconciliation." The interviews will then be posted on our social media platforms to honour the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation (September 30th).
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For more info, please contact
Gav at 204-942-1828
communications@mmvi.ca

🟠Honourariums provided

09/22/2025

🔶🟠Chāpān Games and Teachings🟠🔶

When:
September 28, 2025 (11am – 7:15pm)
Grand Entry starts at 11am

Where:
CN Stage, Field & Skatepark at The Forks

The event focuses on the Chāpān Circle of Elders healing through the medicine of laughter and having fun with traditional Indigenous games and will feature:
Grand Entry * Elders gathering * Powwow Dancers * Fiddling + Jigging * Chāpān Games * Live Entertainment * Bannock Babes + Elvis impersonator * Storytellers * Comedian * Hoop Dancer * Skateboarding Demos + Lessons 12pm - 4pm * Kids Art Workshop * Food trucks * Grand Finale

SHOE DRIVE:
We ask that attendees donate a pair of shoes (size: kindergarten-grade 8). The shoes will be displayed on September 28th and then donated to a different school every year.

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The meaning behind the Cree word Chāpān refers to the traditional role of the elderly as well as youth in families, especially when everyone in the community left every summer to go hunting and fishing at the family camps. Granny Albert McLeod explains, “here, everyone had a role, everyone was busy – one of the Traditional roles of the Chāpāns was to take care of the young - sometimes they would lead the little ones, and sometimes the little ones would lead their Chāpans. This was the cycle of life and a very special relationship.” “This is very different from today,” Granny Louise remarks. “Chāpān Games and Teachings is a time to remember and dream about what life was like before we all had to live apart from each other”.
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For more information, contact:
Shelley Anderson
Community Engagement Coordinator
sanderson@mmvi.ca
204-942-1828

09/11/2025

🔔🔉📢ANNOUNCEMENT 📢🔉🔔

We are holding our Annual General Assembly on Tuesday, September 16, 2025 (4 pm - 8 pm) at the WAG-Qaumajuq (Winnipeg Art Gallery).

Board of Director nominations will be accepted on-the-floor at the AGA:
▪️4 Board of Directors
▪️1 Board of Director Youth Representative

To Register:
admin@mmvi.ca
204-942-1828

09/08/2025

‼️ ‼️ WE ARE HIRING ‼️ ‼️

Join our team at Manitoba Moon Voices, Inc.

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Please submit your
cover letter and resume
to admin@mmvi.ca

09/02/2025

Attn: Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit and Gender Diverse Individuals

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In partnership with Native Women's Association of Canada, MMVI invites you to "Carrying the Waters Forward: Indigenous-Led Water Monitoring Workshop"
(Lunch & Snacks provided)

When:
9-5 pm, Weds, September 10th &
9-5 pm, Thurs, September 11th
(must attend both days)

Where: Agowiidiwinan Centre at the Forks (15 Forks Market Rd)

⭐ Registration Required ⭐ Space is limited ⭐

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To Register, Please Contact:
Kathy at admin@mmvi.ca
204-942-1828

Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre, Inc. Ka Ni Kanichihk Urban Circle Training Centre

08/27/2025

Attn: Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit and Gender Diverse Individuals

💦💧🌊💦💧🌊💦💧🌊💦💧🌊

In partnership with Native Women's Association of Canada, MMVI invites you to "Carrying the Waters Forward: Indigenous-Led Water Monitoring Workshop"
(Lunch & Snacks provided)

When:
9-5 pm, Weds, September 10th &
9-5 pm, Thurs, September 11th
(must attend both days)

Where: Agowiidiwinan Centre at the Forks (15 Forks Market Rd)

⭐ Registration Required ⭐ Space is limited ⭐

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To Register, Please Contact:
Kathy at admin@mmvi.ca
204-942-1828

08/27/2025

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Kookum Iris Lauzon Designs has created a beautiful dress for MMVI. We would like to honour the names of Manitoba's MMIWG2S+ by having their names stitched into the dress. And then display the dress.

(Deadline to submit a name is Tuesday, September 2, 2025)

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If you'd like to have your MMIWG2S+ relative's name recognized, contact:
Shelley Anderson
sanderson@mmvi.ca
204-942-1828

08/20/2025

Media Release being shared on behalf of Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre and Giganawenimaanaanig.

08/15/2025

08/14/2025

Kookum Iris Lauzon Designs has created a beautiful dress for MMVI.
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We would like to honour the names of Manitoba's MMIWG2S+ by having their names stitched into the dress. And then display the dress.

Deadline to submit a name is Tuesday, September 2, 2025.

If you'd like to have your MMIWG2S+ relative's name recognized, contact:
Shelley Anderson
sanderson@mmvi.ca
204-942-1828

08/08/2025

FULL MOON CEREMONY
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When: Monday, August 11, 2025 at 9:30 pm
Where: Oodena Celebration Circle, The Forks

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The Full Moon Ceremony is a collaboration between:
• Sunshine House
• Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Inc MMIWG Liaison Unit (MKO)
• The Link
• Manitoba Moon Voices (MMVI)
• Women’s Health Clinic (WHC)
• Inaadiziwin Transitional Support Services
• Native Clan Organization, Inc. (NCO)
• Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities
• Medicine Bear, Ka Ni Kanichihk
• Health Sciences Centre

The Full Moon Ceremony is open to the community; all genders, cultures and abilities are invited to join together for teachings about feminine energy’s relationship with Grandmother Moon. Anyone who identifies with feminine energy is invited to participate in the Ceremony. Those who identify with masculine energy are invited to attend, but will observe. If you can, we ask relatives to bring your own chair, rattles and/or drums, as well as a water container to fill and take home after the Ceremony.