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sakihiwe festival Round Dance 2025

sakihiwe festival Round Dance 2025

By Alan Greyeyes | January 7, 2025

Tags: Canadian Museum for Human Rights | Round Dance | True North Sports and Entertainment | WASAC | west end cultural centre | Winterruption

We're working with True North Sports and Entertainment, the Winnipeg Aboriginal Sports Achievement Centre, the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, and the West End Cultural Centre to bring together our third annual round dance in Winnipeg on Saturday, January 25, 2025. 

Everything will be held on the main floor at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the evening will begin earlier this year, with doors opening at 3:00 PM, a pipe ceremony at 4:00 PM, feast at 5:00 PM, and the first song at 6:00 PM. 

Admissions is free, seating is available for the first 400 people, everyone is welcome to join us, and the Ode'imin Collective will be running an Indigenous Marketplace with more than 30 vendors in the Manitoba Teachers Society Classrooms from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM.

sākihiwē festival Round Dance during the Winterruption Festival
Presented by True North Sports and Entertainment, the Winnipeg Aboriginal Sports Achievement Centre, the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, and the West End Cultural Centre
Date: Saturday, January 25, 2025
Time: 3:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights, 85 Israel Asper Way, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Admission: Free
MCs: Steve Wood & Ben Cardinal
Stickman: Darryl Buck
Whipman: Daniel Sangrey
Invited singers: Joel Wood, Brandon Harvey, Hallo Day, Roger Greene, Glen Chamakese, Aqua McNabb, Freeman White
Invited backup singers: Renelle Mason, Amanda Gauthier, Tiana Spotted Thunder, Tonia Jo Hall, Alyssia Sutherland, Tasha Garneau, Kashina Blacksmith-Seenie
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3:00 PM: Doors open
4:00 PM: Pipe ceremony
5:00 PM: Feast
6:00 PM: First song
10:30 PM: Giveaway

Reserved seating for Elders: The first row of chairs will be reserved for Elders and their families along with guests who are using wheeled devices and people who prefer to avoid stairs.

Accessibility details for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights:

  • Parking: The Accessible Drop‐off Entrance has four parking stalls and brings visitors right to the doors of the Museum. Additional accessible parking can be found along Israel Asper Way.
  • Entrances: All Museum entrances are accessible to people using wheeled devices and people who prefer to avoid stairs. An Accessible Drop‐off Entrance allows passengers to be dropped off in close proximity to entry doors.
  • Inclusive washrooms: All Museum washrooms are gender‐inclusive. There are many available on every gallery level. This includes at least one large, accessible, gender‐inclusive, barrier‐free, single‐room washroom on levels 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7. The single‐room washroom behind the Coat Room area on Level 1 is equipped with an adult‐sized change table and motorized transfer lift; all other single‐room washrooms contain baby change tables.
  • Additional information: humanrights.ca/visit/accessibility#section_1

The Ode'imin Collective Indigenous Marketplace
Time: 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location: Manitoba Teachers Society Classrooms A, B, & C (main floor, Canadian Museum for Human Rights)
Shop the market, more than 30 vendors

All singers welcome
No drugs or alcohol permitted
Committee not responsible for lost items or short-funded travellers

Please feel free to send questions to alan@sakihiwe.ca.

We acknowledge the Government of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the Winnipeg Arts Council for their financial support of the sākihiwē festival Round Dance.

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