{"id":73450,"date":"2021-11-04T18:03:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T22:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=73450"},"modified":"2021-12-12T18:24:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T23:24:46","slug":"honouring-our-grandmothers-bringing-the-spirits-of-our-grandmothers-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/honouring-our-grandmothers-bringing-the-spirits-of-our-grandmothers-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Honouring our Grandmothers: Bringing the Spirits of our Grandmothers Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartofthecityfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heart of the City Festival<\/a> features three days of ceremony, teachings, and stories in the Downtown Eastside\u2019s Oppenheimer Park. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartofthecityfestival.com\/honouring-our-grandmothers-healing-journey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Honouring our Grandmothers Project<\/a>\u201d is a three-year journey of a \u201cmessage chest...honoring our grandmothers...that would travel BC from the high mountains to the salmon spawning beds connected to the rivers down to Vancouver.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nadine Spence is the guiding light behind the project. Beginning with an opening ceremony on Friday, November 5, and ending with a sending-off ceremony on Sunday, November 7, Nadine Spence describes the ceremony as bringing \u201ca connection to [our] grandmother\u2019s teachings...passed down from generation to generation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Listen to her interview below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, the Heart of the City Festival features three days of ceremony, teachings, and stories in the Downtown Eastside\u2019s Oppenheimer Park. The \u201cHonouring our Grandmothers Project\u201d is a three-year journey of a \u201cmessage chest&#8230;honoring our grandmothers&#8230;that would travel BC from the high mountains to the salmon spawning beds connected to the rivers down to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":73454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[2735,11318,2775,10419],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73450"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=73450"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=73450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}