2024 Fall Knowledge Sharing Symposium
Building on our first pilot project, the next iteration of Niriqatiginnga, as a not-for-profit organization, will explore enhancing and expanding skills development and training opportunities. In this project, emerging and aspiring food sector entrepreneurs will learn to create, market and sell a food product, while exploring opportunities for cultural and food sector entrepreneurship.
XXX XX, 202X - XXXXXX, MANITOBA
Strengthening Relationships.
This phase of Niriqatiginnga moves beyond food preservation, to explore transferable skills for cultural entrepreneurship, food product development, creative entrepreneurship and participatory organizational development.
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09:00-10:30
Date: XXX XX, 202X
Location: TBD
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Our opening session will feature opening remarks, with a retrospective look back on the first year of Niriqatiginnga, from its original concept as a community-based, participatory food security research project, to a community-driven not-for-profit organization.
10:30-10:45
Health Break
10:45-12:00
Date: XXX XX, 202X
Location: TDB
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Join the Manitoba-based Niriqatiginnga program as it explores the growing need for increased awareness and understanding of intellectual property (IP), the protection of Indigenous knowledge (IK) and cultural expressions (ICEs) among Indigenous artists, cultural entrepreneurs, and technology developers in Manitoba and Nunavut.
12:00-1:00
Lunch Break
13:15-14:45
Date: XXX XX, 202X
Location: TBD.
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Workshop participants will learn about the basics of participatory organizational development using arts and entrepreneurship-based approaches.
15:00-15:15
Health Break
15:15-16:30
Date: XXX XX, 202X
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Participants will take part in a roundtable visioning session about how we can boost collaboration, and conditions to support and sustain future project activities.
Niriqatiginnga: Towards a Framework for Northern Food Systems Innovation
Niriqatiginnga is a collective of volunteers, artists, youth, community-based projects, nonprofit organizations, academia and businesses exploring capacity building through the arts, climate and food sector entrepreneurship. Join us this summer as we connect with Winnipeg and Manitoba-based arts, programs and organizations that inspire us, and to learn about the work they do best.
Advancing Economic Reconciliation
This developmental pilot project supports Indigenous early career exposure and cultural entrepreneurship capacity building for the Manitoba agri-food and agriculture sectors.