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Hoop dancing has been a lifelong engagement for Lawrence Roy. Born in Saskatoon and a member of Little Pine First Nation, he learned Hoop Dancing in elementary school, joined a hoop dance troupe, began to travel the powwow circuit, and has never looked back. Lawrence now dances with 30 hoops, has performed all over the country, and teaches Hoop Dancing as part of school programming and in community centres.
He is regularly at Wanuskewin Heritage Park engaging visitors of all ages as part of their daily dance presentations.
For Lawrence, dancing is all about health and maintaining a good connection with Mother Nature. When he dances, he tries to feel the sky, the wind, the sun and talk with everything around him. "I really love making those connections through dance. It doesn't matter what nation you're from, people are so intrigued by the dance," said Roy. "Everyone can make that rhythm, even inside their heart."
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AGE GROUP: | Teens | Kids | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Speakers & Special Events | Reconciliation | Performances | Indigenous Spotlight | Dance | Art |
TAGS: | Indigenous Spotlight |
The Alice Turner Library replaced the smaller Sutherland Branch in December 1998. It was named after Alice Turner McFarland who was a library employee for 37 years and Saskatoon Public Library's chief librarian from 1981 to 1989. The first library in Canada to be built to the standards of C-2000 construction, Canada's environmental building code, the Alice Turner Library was expanded to double its original size in 2013.
