Check out this amazing labour of love - a huge photo collection, with each photo GPS tagged to the specific location it was taken. It’s a wonderful look at life in the SNNPR, with a focus on the Kembata-Tembaro Zone.
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What is the Mehaber? Well, for starters, it’s the largest Ethiopian cultural gathering in reasonable driving distance from Manitoba. Held annually at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in Minneapolis, it’s a one-day festival featuring Ethiopian food, music, dance, and last but not least – a merkato. This small scale version of a traditional Ethiopian market will be selling food, spices, books, hair products, Ethiopian clothing, and much more. This year the Mehaber will be held on July 14. For more information or to register, visit their website . Click here to read a lengthy summary of the history & culture of the Kambata region. The author was born in Kambata, and he has generously given permission for this information to be shared in order to help adoptive parents learn about their children’s birthplace. Thanks Desta!! I have also added a section in the links over at the right for information on Kambata. If anyone has any other online resources, please share! The Ethio-Canadian Dancers Group will be offering another session of cooking classes beginning Saturday, April 21. As a participant in the first session, I highly recommend these classes. It was great to learn some new dishes as well as some of the cultural traditions around food preparation. I even got the courage to finally attempt injera! Here are the details: Our cooking classes will be focused on different recipe of Ethiopian Cuisine. We invite you to join us in Ethiopian cooking using traditional methods prepared with homemade blends of different spices. All the dishes at these cooking classes will be served with “injera,” flat bread made of “Teff”, a fine grain unique to Ethiopia. We were very proud of our first cooking classes, it was a great success and we had great students to share the experience with. To register please email your full name and phone number to ethio.canadian@yahoo.ca. We would like to know ahead of time the number of participants to organize the groups. Start Date: Classes will start on April, 21, 2012 Time: 1:30pm- 3:00 pm Location: Knox United Church, 400 Edmonton St Duration: 4 weeks long Cooking Lab fee: $45.00 For more information, visit their new website! Note that the group’s dance classes are still ongoing, and are held upstairs Knox United on Saturdays at 1:00 pm. Classes are free and new participants are always welcome. The Ethiopian Society of Winnipeg will be offering dance and Amharic lessons starting Sunday April 1st. Dance lessons will include dances from the five main Ethiopian tribes (Amhara, Gurage, Oromo, Tigray, and Wolayta.) The fee is $100 for 13 lessons, or $10 for one lesson (drop-in.) When: Sundays at 1 P.M. from April 1 to July 1 Basic Amharic Language will also be commencing at the same time. The program is designed for children between the ages of 6 – 12. The fee is $50 for 13 lessons. When: Sundays at 2:30 P.M. from April 1 to July 1 For more information, visit the Society’s web page at www.ethiowpg.org
Courtesy of Desta. Click on the map to enlarge, or right click to save to your computer. Amharic Kids now has three books by Jane Kurtz in stock. Purchase of these titles supports Ethiopia Reads, which provides books to children in Ethiopia. “Trouble” and “Silly Mammo” are bilingual English/Amharic picture books for younger children, while “Saba” is a historical novel for older readers (grade 5-8.) If you’re placing an order, be sure to check out their Sale section as well – the Ethiopia colouring book and Amharic bean bags are on for a great price right now! Making Sense of Discipline
with Pamela Whyte of the Neufeld Institute
This course applies the attachment-based developmental approach to the arena of discipline. Imposing order on children’s behaviour is never particularly easy; imposing order on their minds is even more daunting. When the challenge is to impose order without putting in jeopardy healthy attachment and development, many are at a loss as to how to proceed. Unfortunately, today’s prevailing methods of discipline are completely uninformed regarding their impact on attachment and development. This course not only provides parents and teachers with this knowledge but also equips them with a solid methodology that is not only much more effective but also much less risky than the usual fare. Making Sense of Discipline not only answers the question of what to do when problems arise but how to do so without sacrificing a child’s emotional health and sense of security for short-term gains in behaviour and performance. The ultimate objective of this course is for parents and teachers to come to the place where the answers will come from their own understanding and they possess the inner confidence to handle the small stuff as well as the more challenging issues. At the Winnipeg Centre Vineyard, 782 MAIN ST
Date: March 17 9am – 4:30pm
$80 for single
$110 for couple
Lunch and snacks provided
Register with Emma Thiessen by March 11.
Phone 772-0567 or email emmandavid@gmail.com
For more information on the course material, see the Neufeld Institute Course page. The Ethio-Canadian Dancers Group is going to begin offering cooking classes! The classes will focus on different Ethiopian recipes, using traditional methods and prepared homemade blends of different spices. All dishes will be served with injera, the traditional flatbread made with teff, a fine grain unique to Ethiopia. Registration Begins: February 11, 2012 Duration: 4 weeks long Cooking Lab fee: $45.00 Start Date: Classes will start on February 18, 2012 Time: Saturdays from 2: 00pm- 3:30 pm Location: Knox United Church, 400 Edmonton St To register please email your full name and phone number to ethio.canadian@yahoo.ca . As this is the very first cooking class they would like to know ahead of time the number of participants and would welcome your suggestions! The Ethiopian Society of Winnipeg would like to invite families to join them for a special Christmas celebration: Sunday, December 18 4-6 pm Ethiopian Cultural Centre, 215 Selkirk Ave Admission is free, and there will be games, face painting, and pictures with Santa. There will also be traditional dance performances by the Folklorama dancers and by the graduates of their first dance classes! There will be a gift exchange for children under 10 years old. Parents are asked to bring a gift donation for the exchange, with a value of no more than $10. For more information on the Christmas Carnival, visit the Society’s Facebook page, or contact Nahome at nahomeb@ethiowpg.org . |
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