Week of Events
Culture Night
Culture Night
Join us every Monday evening for Culture Night! Featuring new guest speakers every week, discussing teachings, medicines, and more! Culture Night is open to the general public. Wabano programs are for First Nation, Inuit and Métis community members only. If a program is open to the general public, it will be specified. With open programs...
Beading Earrings with Grandma Karen
Beading Earrings with Grandma Karen
Join us every Tuesday this month and learn how to bead your very own Earrings with Grandma Karen. To participate you must be a registered client with Wabano Early years program. Please register with: Shania Snache SSnache@wabano.com 613-478-0657 ext. 376 Bus tickets are provided to attend program. Refreshments and light lunch will be served during...
Diabetes Education Group
Diabetes Education Group
Come meet with our Diabetes team to learn more about diabetes management. Each week we will meet to answer your questions about diabetes and discuss different topics such as: nutrition, fitness, light mobility activities, diabetes education, traditional teachings, etc. This program is offered in-person and online - please contact Jessica if you would like the...
Nimiigwetchwendam
Nimiigwetchwendam
A weekly, co-ed, confidential and in-person sharing circle utilizing the 7 Sacred Teachings, the Medicine Wheel and other traditional concepts as guiding principles to promote the healing and wellness of participants. Light snack and bus tickets provided. In-person at Wabano Housing, 338 Montreal Rd., 2nd Floor No registration is required for this group. Wabano programs...
Wellbriety – Indigenous Recovery Group
Wellbriety – Indigenous Recovery Group
This co-ed group will focus on a holistic approach to learn and benefit from traditional, as well as conventional means of healing. It will provide the medicine and tools that will help empower ourselves over drugs, alcohol and or violence, to help us overcome the trauma that has caused our spirits to be wounded. Programming...
Seniors Circle (In-Person)
Seniors Circle (In-Person)
Aaniin, Boozhoo! Shé:kon, Ullakut! Waachiyaa, Osiyo! Hello, Bonjour! We would like to invite you to our IN-PERSON Indigenous Seniors Circle. Weekly teachings and activities will revolve around every month's moon. Share great moments, lots of laughter and a beautiful atmosphere with new friends. Regular programming takes place Mondays and Wednesdays, 10 am to 2 pm....
Culture and Nutrition
Culture and Nutrition
Come join us for some cultural teachings with Deena as well as learn about the importance of Heathy Nutrition with our very own Wabano Dietician, Jessica Wood. To participate you must be a registered client with Wabano Early years program. Please register with: Shania Snache SSnache@wabano.com 613-478-0657 ext. 376 Bus tickets are provided to attend...
Wasa-Nabin Wednesdays
Wasa-Nabin Wednesdays
Wasa-Nabin Wednesdays is a hands-on cultural program for Indigenous youth 13-18 to gain experience with Indigenous arts, crafts, tools and activities. Facilitators will be brought in to guide programming and teach about cultures from across Turtle Island. Time: 4:30 to 6 pm Location: Youth House, 275 Bradley Ave. (backyard, weather permitting) We hope you can join...
Wellbriety – Indigenous Recovery Group
Wellbriety – Indigenous Recovery Group
This co-ed group will focus on a holistic approach to learn and benefit from traditional, as well as conventional means of healing. It will provide the medicine and tools that will help empower ourselves over drugs, alcohol and or violence, to help us overcome the trauma that has caused our spirits to be wounded. Programming...
RN Visits Early Years
RN Visits Early Years
Every Thursday this month we will be joined by our very own registered nurse from Wabano: Natalie Smith, Please bring all your questions for her to answer! To participate you must be a registered client with Wabano Early years program. Please register with: Shania Snache SSnache@wabano.com 613-478-0657 ext. 376 Bus tickets are provided to attend...
New Beginnings: Men’s Sharing Circle with Thomas Louttit
New Beginnings: Men’s Sharing Circle with Thomas Louttit
Join for closed sharing circle for Indigenous men every Thursday evening from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. with knowledge keeper Thomas Louttit. In-person at 268 Bradley Ave. Wabano programs are for First Nation, Inuit and Métis community members only. If a program is open to the general public, it will be specified. With open programs that...
Picnic at the Park
Picnic at the Park
Join us for a fun picnic at the park!! At Optimist Park, 43 Rue Ste-Cécile St., Ottawa, ON. To participate you must be a registered client with Wabano Early years program. Please register with: Shania Snache SSnache@wabano.com 613-748-0657 ext. 376 Bus tickets are provided to attend program. Refreshments and light lunch will be served during...
Carving and Sculpting Group
Carving and Sculpting Group
Artist Byron Conant will teach you the art of carving and sculpting. Byron Conant is a Cree artist, crafter and carver from James Smith First Nation in Saskatchewan, and has been living in Ottawa for the past 20 years. Byron makes dreamcatchers, drums, lanyards, keychains, wood carvings and knives. He carves using antler and wood,...
Wellbriety – Kiyam
Wellbriety – Kiyam
This in-person men's group will focus on a holistic approach to learn and benefit from traditional, as well as conventional means of healing. It will provide the medicine and tools that will help empower ourselves over drugs, alcohol and or violence, to help us overcome the trauma that has caused our spirits to be wounded....