{"id":61,"date":"2025-06-26T16:13:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gathering.rcaaq.info\/?p=61"},"modified":"2025-06-26T16:21:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:21:59","slug":"%f0%9f%aa%b6-opening-ceremony-walking-together-in-spirit-and-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gathering.rcaaq.info\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"\ud83e\udeb6 Opening Ceremony \u2013 Walking Together in Spirit and Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Time:<\/strong> Wednesday, September 17, 09:00<br><strong>Room:<\/strong> Salle Caribou<br><strong>Speakers:<\/strong> <em>Council of Elders \u2013 RCAAQ<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><br>We begin the Gathering with a ceremonial moment of grounding, reflection, and intention. Led by the RCAAQ\u2019s Council of Elders, this opening marks the official start of our shared journey through the theme <em>Our Cultures in Motion<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through words, song, and presence, the Elders will remind us of the strength that lies in our roots, the importance of intergenerational continuity, and the sacred responsibility of walking forward \u2014 together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This ceremony is both a welcome and an invocation \u2014 calling in the knowledge of the past, the energy of the present, and the possibilities of what\u2019s to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIn our cultures, every beginning is a return to what matters most.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time: Wednesday, September 17, 09:00Room: Salle CaribouSpeakers: Council of Elders \u2013 RCAAQ Description:We begin the Gathering with a ceremonial moment of grounding, reflection, and intention. Led by the RCAAQ\u2019s Council of Elders, this opening marks the official start of our shared journey through the theme Our Cultures in Motion. Through words, song, and presence, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gathering.rcaaq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gathering.rcaaq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gathering.rcaaq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gathering.rcaaq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gathering.rcaaq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gathering.rcaaq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/gathering.rcaaq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gathering.rcaaq.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gathering.rcaaq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gathering.rcaaq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gathering.rcaaq.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}