Indigenous Science Night: Ancestor Rocks
Schedule
Fri, 24 Oct, 2025 at 05:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
220 St. George's Drive NE, Calgary, AB, Canada, Alberta T2E 5T2 | Calgary, AB
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🪨 Rock out at Indigenous Science Night: October 24! 🪨An evening giving reverence to Ancestor rocks, stones, and pebbles! Experience the knowledges of Rock Ancestors through hands-on science and art workshops, Elder’s teachings, and even cooking with earth and stones!
This event brings together teachings from Indigenous, Land-based, and Global science, a chance for everyone to reconnect with the depth of teachings we are gifted from Ancestor Rocks.
As our oldest teachers, they have taught humans knowledge of connection through ceremony, how to connect the land with cosmic cycles across millennia, their unique personalities in making tools, weapons, and cooking, and much more...
What to expect:
🪨 Cooking with Earth & Stones demo + tastings with Cree Chef Shane Chartrand ($30 add-on)
🪨 Elder Talks on the spiritual and scientific wisdom of Ancestor Rocks
🪨 Clay and paint workshops demo art through the Four Elements
🪨 Cosmic scavenger hunts and telescope viewing of “Rocks in the Sky”
🪨 Bring Your Own Rock station, where guests can bring in their favourite rocks, fossils, and more and ask Spark geologists can answer all their quartz-y questions.Indigenous Market featuring local Indigenous vendors
🪨 Live music from Walter MacDonald White Bear, Tribe Artist Society, and Treaty 7 punk band Quarter Ounce
Guests can also enjoy special land-based delights such as BBQ Bison Burger and Pemmican Saskatoon Sundae, and a Spark favourite – Beef Brisket Frybread by Bakers Bannock.
Tickets are free for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit (FNMI) people, no ID required. General admission is $10/adults and $5/children. For more information and to book tickets or workshop spots, visit sparkscience.ca.
TELUS Spark Science Centre gratefully acknowledges Imperial Oil, TD Ready Commitment, and Plains Midstream Canada for their generous support of Indigenous science programming.
Cover image: Brendon Many Bears, Siksika
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Where is it happening?
220 St. George's Drive NE, Calgary, AB, Canada, Alberta T2E 5T2Event Location & Nearby Stays:
