A conversation with inspiring women leaders about confronting hate, uplifting community, and creating spaces of respect, belonging, and courage.
This is a FREE workshop hosted by Breaking Bannock with funding by Canadian Heritage - The Government of Canada.
Breaking Bannock gratefully accepts donations to keep offering programs - donations can be in cash brought to your class or e-transfers to breakingbannock@gmail.com
Aimee Chalifoux is an Indigenous literacy advocate, storyteller, and community leader with decades of experience supporting youth and adults in reconnecting with their culture, land, and voice. She blends traditional knowledge, land-based practices, and creative expression to create workshops that are experiential, relational, and healing. Aimee’s work focuses on fostering identity, confidence, and resilience through storytelling, art, and cultural teachings rooted in food, land, and ceremony.
Tsatassaya (Tracey) White is a curator, producer, event planner, and community mobilizer from the Snuneymuxw and Hupacasath Nations. A passionate advocate for Indigenous arts and culture, she creates community events and cultural programming that celebrate Indigenous creativity, storytelling, and dance. Through her work, Tsatassaya brings communities together and helps foster meaningful conversations about culture, connection, and reconciliation through the arts.
Elder Geraldine Manson, also known as C’tasi:a, elder of Snuneymuxw First Nation, married to Earl Manson. She presently works at Vancouver Island University as the “Elder-in-Resident”. C’tasi:a holds valuable teachings that were passed on to her by several Snuneymuxw Elders that mentored her over 17 years, teachings of Snuneymuxw lands that she refers to as “From the mountains to the rivers that flow into the Salish Sea” and what each contains. She was chosen to be their voice, eyes and legs when they can no longer do so, to continue to echo their words of history of Snuneymuxw. C’tasi:a has published three books that relate to the lands of Snuneymuxw. 1. Snuneymuxw Mulstimuxw, Sacred Place Names, their Travels and Stories. 2. Snuneymuxw History, Written in Places and Spaces, Ancestors’ Voices-An Echo in Time. 3. Plant Teachings from My Auntie. C’tasi:a is also a Elder Knowledge Keeper with the BC First Nation Justice Council and sits on the Snuneymuxw Matriarch Committee within her community.