Courtney: Briar Rose and The Indigenous Memory of Mother Europe

Sun Mar 23 2025 at 01:00 pm to 05:00 pm UTC-07:00

The Abbey Studio | Cumberland

Digging Roots
Publisher/HostDigging Roots
Courtney: Briar Rose and The Indigenous Memory of Mother Europe
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An afternoon with Indigenous, cultural activist Kakisimow Iskwew and Tad Hargrave delving into the deeper layers of the tale of Sleeping Beauty.
COST: $40. 100% of proceeds from the evening will go to support the important work being done by Albertan indigenous, cultural activist Kakisimow Iskwew.
https://meetingmyancestors.com/briar-rose/
NOTE: Not for children under the ages of 13. This is designed for adults. *
We live in a time when many people of European descent are waking up to but feel cut off from their indigenous, folk ancestry that suffered waves of colonization from Rome to the Holy Roman Empire, famine, disease, war upon war before washing up on the shores of what would become known as North America.
There seems to be no way back to the forgotten wisdom those people held and so the only place to find it seems to be in the traditions and practices of other still intact (or more intact) indigenous peoples.
In this session, we’ll be making the case that more memory survived than we’ve been led to believe - much of it in the form of common folk and fairy tales you likely heard as a child or watched as Disney movies.
Here’s the core idea of our time together: If you are willing to look at fairy tales as memory, not just metaphor, you’ll get further with them.
In this session, we’ll be coming to a small portion of that cultural memory via the old Grimm’s tale Briar Rose - a version of the Sleeping Beauty story that exists in many versions around the world.
Our Ask: Once you register, you’ll receive a copy of the story we’ll be working with and we’ll ask you to read over it three times. Consider printing it out and writing all over it with your thoughts and reflections.
It's entirely possible that you'd love to join us, are curious about this story, or are keen to connect with resources for digging into traditional stories for cultural guidance. And if you're able to make it to this event or not, we have an email list for just that. We would love to have you join us there.
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The Abbey Studio, 2687 Penrith Ave.,Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada

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