Mary's Festival
2024-06-01 11:00 - 16:00 (America/Edmonton) | St. Mary’s University, 14500 Bannister Road SE, Calgary, AB, T2X 1Z4, Canada
Mary’s Festival celebrates and advances the People First pillar of our university through meaningful community engagement that will increase the awareness and regard of the University as a destination within Catholic communities and our Indigenous partners.
Hosted on our campus grounds, we will showcase our people (faculty, staff and students) through interactive activities, carnival games, mermaid dunk tank, face painting, food truck, beer garden, and live entertainment designed to encourage participants and their families to move through the festival site and enjoy their day with us.

Beading Workshop
2025-01-19 10:00 - 17:00 | The Confluence Historic Site & Parkland, 750 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB, T2G 5E1, Canada
In this beginner’s workshop, Métis artisan Janis Laboucane will share the history and significance of Métis beading where you’ll learn to follow a traditional flower pattern for your own beading project. All materials are supplied and yours to take home if you don’t finish the flower during the workshop.
Bring your own lunch with you or add Spolumbo’s lunch to your ticket purchase for an additional $17 and we’ll deliver it day-of.
About the Instructor
Janis Laboucane is a Métis artisan from Fishing Lake Métis Settlement skilled in beading, drawing, painting, quilling and tufting. Janis is a gifted instructor with extensive experience facilitating programs and teaching native and traditional arts.

We Were Taken - Documentary Screening in Calgary
2025-05-22 19:00 - 21:00 | The Confluence Historic Site & Parkland, 750 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB, T2G 5E1, Canada
Presented by the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights and the Sixties Scoop Indigenous Society of Alberta (SSISA) in collaboration with Damian Abrahams, Indigital Media of Edmonton.
Join us for a special screening of the Director’s Cut of We Were Taken, a powerful documentary filmed in May 2023 during a healing gathering of Sixties Scoop survivors in Kananaskis, Alberta.
We Were Taken intimately explores the lived experiences of Indigenous individuals who were removed from their families during the Sixties Scoop and placed in adoptive homes. With compassion and care, the film sheds light on their journeys of grief, understanding, and healing—amplifying voices that reclaim identity and culture across generations.
This event offers an opportunity to witness stories of resilience and reconnection and to reflect on the ongoing impacts of colonial systems in Canada.
