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Where?Gibson Park, Elmira 17 First Street W. Elmira
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Thrive HIV Prevention + Support (Formerly ACCKWA)
Woolwich Counselling Centre ArtbyKat Tread Forward Region of Waterloo Library Woolwich Community Services Spectrum Waterloo Region SHORE Centre Woolwich Community Health Centre Grand River Transit EDSS GSA Jack.org Wilmot Waterloo The Ripple Effect Education |
1st Elmira Scouts
Camino Wellbeing + Mental Health St. Jacobs Girl Guides Willow River Doula Collective Engage Rural Collaborative Hearts Open for Everyone (HOPE) Chaotic resolve creations Kitchener-Conestoga Provincial Liberal Association and Kitchener-Conestoga Federal Liberal Association Gale Presbyterian Church & Trinity United Church Pastors in Exile Community Based Research Centre's (CBRC) Investigaytorst |
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Meet the entertainers!
Hope Engel
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Turtle Clan, Oklahoma Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Scotch Irish & German, living in Kitchener-Waterloo since 2007. I come from a large family of teachers. My dad was a Boarding School survivor & Oklahoma Civil Rights Labour and desegregation Activist.
I have been co-facilitating “’Write” Relations”, a zoom indigenous creative writers and artists circle, since covid started, in partnership with Guelph Spoken Word, Indigenous Poets Society (Treaty 6, Poetik) & Indigenous Creatives United ( ICU, formerly Plume Artists Circle, founded in 2002, Kitchener-Waterloo). I volunteer with Setting Our Spirits Free drum circle at Grand Valley Correctional Institute, GiZhawenimin, Indigenous care community circles for our young people aging out of the system, & create & do indigenous community-based & community building self-care workshops. I have an English BAH from Guelph, & an Indigenous Adult Education Hon.BEd from Brock. I co-founded Plume Artists Circle (PAC), a local indigenous artists collective, with Wendy Stewart (Tyendenega Turtle Clan), in 2002. I wrote an Ontario Arts Council grant & edited & published River Bundles: An Anthology of Original Peoples in Waterloo Wellington in 2006. In 2022, PAC became part of Indigenous Poets Society. I’ve done spoken word at Hillside Music Festival, Eden Mills Writers Festival, Toronto Womens Bookstore When the Rainbow Isn’t Enough, Guelph Live Wires Shock the Empire, Mayworks Labour Arts Festival, KW Spotlight, & OPIRG & Guelph Sisters in Spirit MMIWGT2S+ Events. I’ve been published in the Peak magazine & helped research & develop an Academic Writing Manual for Indigenous MSW Graduate Students. I collaboratively wrote a national grant for & organized an indigenous Conflict Resolution Conference Circle of Opposites in 2004 for CRNC. I co-founded & got initial core funding for Guelph University Indigenous Student Centre. I got grant funding & organized a women’s juice fast at Jan Longboat’s in Oshweken, a national Two-Spirit conference in Guelph in 2004, the Guelph Indigenous Student Drum Circle, Human Rights Office events for PRIDE week, & Guelph Indigenous Day. I catalogued ISBN data for University of Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC) library and helped organize their community powwow. I am a two spirit indigiqueer “indigenous femme-inist” & have multiple disabilities. I have volunteered with numerous community events, organizations & Boards over the years. I’ve been a "whole-istic" practitioner/ teacher since 1996, including NLP, Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch, Tantra, and initiated Plant Spirit Medicine Practitioner. I did Sundance and Warrior dance ceremonies 2006-2013. I’ve developed indigenous-centred curriculums & taught many community workshops over the last 20+ years including Reiki, Nature As Teacher, Writing as Resistance, Crafts & Aromatherapy, Creative “Whole-istic” Self-Care, Indigenous worldview 101, collage therapy for trauma and manifesting dreams, and teaching/making liquid smudge and medicine teas, & drumming for indigenous community who ask. I learn from Anishnaabe teachers, and Haudenosaunee and Huichol Turtle aunties, uncles & 2 Spirits and Elders, and am very involved in our culture, ceremonies, maintaining our traditions, and strengthening community relationships. As a mixed person with white privilege, walking in the liminal borderlands between many words, I am passionate about inter-connected relationships- understanding & building relationships between all people. My background is community arts, sustainability, peer counselling, advocacy, frontline work in diversity & relational worldviews & spiritual traditions, "whole-istic" (spiritual, mental, emotional, physical) health for people & community circles of care, proposal writing, research and education, and empowerment and well-being for all people. I’ll continue to remain active in the community and mentor/ auntie at the grassroots level, to give back & make positive contributions to the world for all our relations. I’m a stand for love, connection, healing, and caring communities for all our relations. |
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