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Six Seasons Presentations at Alternate Histories Symposium
On March 7, Six Seasons of the Asiniskow Ithiniwak researchers Doris Wolf and Kevin Brownlee will be presenting on the Six Seasons project at the Alternate Histories Symposium at the University of Manitoba (409 Tier Building).
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Skywalk Lecture – Moving Picture Books into the Future: Active Learning and Picture Book Apps
On February 21 from noon to 1PM, Six Seasons researcher, Mavis Reimer, will be presenting as part of the Winnipeg Public Library Skywalk Lecture Series in the Carol Shields Auditorium (2nd floor) at the Millennium Library, 251 Donald Street.
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Skywalk Lecture – Pīsim: Revitalizing and Reclaiming Rocky Cree Culture, Identity and History
On February 14 from noon to 1PM, Six Seasons researcher, Kevin Brownlee, will be presenting as part of the Winnipeg Public Library Skywalk Lecture Series in the Carol Shields Auditorium (2nd floor) at the Millennium Library, 251 Donald Street.
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Crowdfunding Campaign for Pīsim Finds Her Miskanow App
From 2008 to 2013, the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures collaborated on producing Pīsim Finds Her Miskanow, a picture book for young people about the life of Kayasochi Kikawenow, Our Mother from Long Ago, a young Cree woman who lived in northern Manitoba in the late-seventeenth century and whose burial site was discovered in 1993. Now the Pīsim research team has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help create an interactive digital text version of the story.