Diversity in the Outdoors | Manoomin’s Journey: Wild Rice & the Anishinaabe People Crankie Box Show

Date(s): Saturday, May 3, 2025
Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm
Venue: Westgate Branch of AADL
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Manoomin’s Journey: Wild Rice & the Anishinaabe People is a Crankie Box Show about Manoomin or Wild Rice. Children will learn about manoomin from the perspective of the manoomin to understand our relationships with all living things while having fun searching for items in the beautiful illustrations and learning to say words in Ojibwe.

What is a Crankie Box? A crankie theatre is a box built with two spools inside. The spools have handles that can be ‘cranked’ to bring movement to an illustrated scroll that helps tell a story.

The Manoomin’s Journey Crankie Box Show was developed by three Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) friends who bring together their unique perspectives and creativity to share a special language and cultural learning experience. They are also all members of the ladies hand drum group, Asiginaak-Negamojig (the Blackbird Singers) who will lend their voices during the show.

This event is in partnership with the Natural Area Preservation.

For grades K-adult.

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