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If we missed you at this year’s Aboriginal Youth Explosion (AYE), please let us take this opportunity to share a few highlights: On Sunday May 12, 2013, the second annual Aboriginal Youth Explosion, presented by Calgary-based nonprofit Bridges Social Development, took place at Mount Royal University. Aboriginal youth from across Southern Alberta came together to celebrate [...]
This is a continuation of our journey exploring the “whys” of the Aboriginal Youth Explosion. Today we are exploring Appreciation As most of you reading this may know, the Aboriginal Youth Explosion took place this past Sunday and we could not be more appreciative to everyone involved – to the youth, to the artists, to [...]
This is a continuation of our journey exploring the “whys” of the Aboriginal Youth Explosion. Today we are exploring Leadership and Family This year, the Aboriginal Youth Explosion is being celebrated on Mother’s Day. This may seem a bit strange as Mother’s Day for a lot of people is typically celebrated as a small family [...]
This is a continuation of our journey exploring the “whys” of the Aboriginal Youth Explosion. Today we are exploring Invitation and Inclusiveness The topic of Invitations for Bridges and the Aboriginal Youth Explosion really has two meanings. First, the invitation is a crucial piece of how Bridges as an organization works. As one of our [...]
This is a continuation of our journey exploring the “whys” of the Aboriginal Youth Explosion. Today we are exploring Inter-Community Dialogue and Place Bridges, the youth who participate in the Aboriginal Youth Explosion, and the many community members who support the AYE and the process of getting there have quite a few hopes and dreams [...]
This is a continuation of our journey exploring the “whys” of the Aboriginal Youth Explosion. Today we are exploring Dialogue and Storytelling The Aboriginal Youth Explosion (AYE) brings together Aboriginal youth to celebrate the exploration of their personal wisdom and potential. It provides the space for these youth to share their stories with the broader [...]
This is a continuation of our journey exploring the “whys” of the Aboriginal Youth Explosion. Today we are exploring Education, Joint Ceremony, and Traditional Customs In our lives we experience many forms of education and what I think we can all agree on is that education does not only come in the form of classrooms and [...]
This is a continuation of our journey exploring the “whys” of the Aboriginal Youth Explosion. Today we are exploring Inspiration and Vision The definition of Inspiration is, “The process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something”. What does the Aboriginal Youth Explosion (AYE) have to do with this general definition of inspiration, better yet, what [...]
In the last What We’re Up To post we explored the “whys” of Idle No More and started to unpack what we are learning – one of those pieces being the relationships between people in our communities, especially the long standing broken relationships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians. What I think we were doing here [...]
If you are like us, trying to learn and understand Idle No More or the “whys” of Idle No More here are just some of the resources we have started learning from. There are so many perspectives, opinions, and stories out there so please do not stop learning here. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/01/08/f-vp-mccue-idle-no-more.html http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100014597/1100100014637 http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/webarchives/20071115053257/http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/ch/rcap/sg/sgmm_e.html http://ipsmo.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/idlenomore_handout.pdf http://www.canadiana.ca/citm/themes/aboriginals/aboriginals12_e.html http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/to-be-indian-in-canada-today/article7261247/ [...]
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