The University of Manitoba and HSC will celebrate National Aboriginal Day on Thursday, June 21, 2012 from 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. with a feast, entertainment, artists and crafters, and activities in Brodie Centre Atrium, 727 McDermot Avenue, at the University of Manitoba Bannatyne Campus.

A teepee will be set up all day and elders will be on site. Everyone is welcome to attend.

The day’s schedule of events includes:

• Pipe ceremony                                                                 8:00-9:00 a.m.
• Breakfast                                                                           9:00-10:30 a.m.
• Teepee & Traditional Teachings                                   9:00 a.m., Noon, 2:00 p.m.
• White Horse Drum Group/Singers/Dancers            10:00-11:00 a.m.
• Niji Mahkwa Traditional Singers                                 11:00 -11:20 a.m.
• Greetings, Dr. Catherine Cook, Associate Dean, First Nations, Métis & Inuit Health, Faculty of Medicine  11:20 -11:25 a.m.
• William Whyte School dance group                            11:35 a.m.-Noon
• Feast                                                                                   Noon-1:30 p.m.
• Fiddlers, Inuit Drums, Throat Singing                       12:15-2:00 p.m.

For more information contact Ilana Simon, director, communications & marketing, Faculty of Medicine, at: 204-789-3427 or cell: 204-295-6777, or email: ilana.simon@med.umanitoba.ca