From the Round Dance Facebook event page

By Emily Keller

Community

Seventh annual Round Dance to go this weekend

Jan 31, 2020 | 1:29 PM

The Grande Prairie Aboriginal Circle of Services will be hosting its 7th annual Round Dance this Saturday, February 1.

The event’s full name is the 7th Annual Round Dance – We are all connected – wakotowin.

Korie-Lyn Northey, chair of the Grande Prairie Community Round Dance planning committee, says the event is a chance to socialize and for the community to get together.

“We also are going to be celebrating three people in our community that we want to recognize as helping us make connections and they’re people from different places and different races and they basically make our place a better place to live in Grande Prairie and area.”

Northey adds that the event is open to the public and that the ceremony aspect called a round dance can be taught to those who don’t know it.

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Prior to the Round Dance, there will be a pipe ceremony and feast.

“It’s a place for us to pray together, and again, to connect as community members, to visit, to pray together,” said Northey about the pipe ceremony. “It basically is an opportunity for us to celebrate, as well as come together and make prayers that are good intentioned for our community to be healthy and the members to be healthy and happy.”

She adds that there will also be a giveaway during the evening and that the Round Dance is family-friendly with a zero-tolerance for drugs and alcohol.

The event goes from 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Saint John Paul II High School gym.