Congratulations Grads!
 

Our Learner Speakers’ Bureau has moved beyond the perimeter. This year we have graduates from Flin Flon, Selkirk, and Portage-la-Prairie. On Thursday, May 22, five learners received their Literacy Partners of Manitoba - Certificate of Achievement for completion of the Public Speaker Training.

The training took place at the Selkirk Adult Learning Program located in the Friendship Centre. The training was facilitated by Jan Graham, Learner Outreach Coordinator for LPM, one afternoon a week for four consecutive weeks.

Four of the graduates, Wendy Miller, Kristen Maximchuk, Natasha Blacksmith, and Ellen Bale attend the Selkirk Program and Lyn Robilliard, who drove there from Portage to take the training, attends the Portage Workplace Literacy Program.

In February, Shelley Ringrose, who attends the Community Adult Learning Centre in Flin Flon, also took the Public Speaker Training. She gave her first public speech to a small audience of learners, her practitioner, Sylvia Alexus, and LPM representatives at the Pan-Canadian Interactive Literacy Forum, held at the Winnipeg Convention Centre in April.

—Submitted by Jan Graham, Learner Outreach Coordinator
LiteracyWORKS Summer Reading Used Book Sale

Stock up for your summer reading at LiteracyWORKS’ sixth annual Used Book Sale. Grab some great books at great prices while supporting a great cause – Winnipeg’s longest-running, non-profit, adult and youth literacy program. The fundraising event takes place Friday June 13th through Sunday June 15th at Kildonan Place Shopping Centre. Call 786-1212 or visit www.litworks.ca for more information. See Poster
Success Skills Center Training Seminar

Orientations and Workshop Series for Immigrant Professionals and Skilled Workers
Success Skills Centre offers Employment Search Workshops for Immigrant Professionals and Skilled Workers. Participants need to have Canadian Language Benchmark Level 5 or above.

There are no charges for the services received from Success Skills Centre. The provincial Department of Competitiveness, Training and Trade and the Department of Labour and Immigration fund the Centre.

Please see more for details and registration.
17th Annual St. Amant Conference on Developmental Disabilities and Autism

October 9 - 10, 2008, at the Canad Inn, Fort Garry, in Winnipeg, MB

Participants include educators, researchers, self-advocates, family members, service
providers and health professionals. The conference is hosted by St. Amant, a comprehensive organization based in Winnipeg that serves individuals with a developmental disability, acquired brain injury or autism.

Presentations cover a variety of topics, including those that affect pre-school children,
school-age children, adults and seniors. Subject matters will focus on Autism, Innovative Practices, Practical Training, Self Advocacy and Wellness.

For more information about the conference and to register, see more.

Book series for Adult Learners

You may want to consider checking out a book series called "Junkyard Dan". It is perfect for adult learners with low literacy skills. Gone are the days of Hop on Pop in an Adult Education classroom! These books were especially written for adults.  

- the books can be read at 2nd - 4th grade reading levels
- the content is worth reading; interesting characters, crime, cars, etc.
- learners are not embarrassed to be seen reading these books

www.noxpress.com

 
What's new at our Resource Library

As another school year draws to a close, I invite you to ponder a few issues over the summer. Here are some questions I wonder about …

Have you visited our Resource Centre?
Have you checked out LPM’s online catalogue?
When did you last borrow materials from our Resource Centre?
Do you know that we offer learner memberships?
What is the main reason you haven’t borrowed materials from LPM’s Resource Centre?

For those of you who send in your answers to these questions, we will have surprise prizes! We will award these prizes at our annual Open House on September 8, 2008. Watch our website for news about this event. E-mail your answers to liblpm@mb.literacy.ca or fax to 956-9315. And remember, there are no correct answers –- we just want to hear from you.

To see what's new at our resource library, please see more.
Cree singer/storyteller Winston Wuttunee

Winston is an amazing performer, talented, funny, generous, yet he also carries a traditional awareness about him that enables him to connect with children and adults to learn about themselves. He has headlined at the Winnipeg International Children's Festival and the Festival de Voyageur and can perform in English, French, Cree and Anishinabe.

Winston Wuttunee will be in Winnipeg in May and June and will be living here from September to January 2009. He is available to be booked for performances and workshops. 

Please visit his website for more information or if you would like to book an appearance.

Poetry Winners!

The Transcona Literacy Centre Inc. has announced this year's winners for their 2008 Poetry Contest.

Congratulations winners!

1st Prize – Poetry Champion: Aneta Kenny, Brandon, MB -- In Potter’s Field
2nd Prize – Janet Matheson, Killarney, MB -- A Tribute to Wally
3rd Prize – Arthur Ammeter, Petersfield, MB -- On Looking Into the Old Yearbook
4th Prize – Larry Zack, Winnipeg, MB -- Pretty Dress, How Green My Eyes
5th Prize – Kathy Kopichanski, Winnipeg, MB -- When the Candle Burns Low

You can read the winning submission on their webpage.

Meet Manitoba Children's Authors at the Polo Park McNally Robinson in Winnipeg

Dorene Meyer and guests, Monday June 30, 7:00 pm in the Events Alcove.
Launch of Meet Manitoba Children's Authors, a book that will introduce you to the many marvellous children's book authors that live in our province. This is a great resource for teachers and an exciting tool for children. Learn the secrets of your favourite author. Receive advice on writing from Margaret Buffie, Martha Brooks, Linda Holeman, Carol Matas and thirty other great writers. They even provide you with the exercises to get started!

Bright Futures Fund to Help Students

Bright Futures Fund to help students complete high school and pursue post-secondary education

The Manitoba government is investing $1 million in a new Bright Futures fund that will help disadvantaged and low-income students complete high school and pursue a post-secondary education, Advanced Education and Literacy Minister Diane McGifford and Education, Citizenship and Youth Minister Peter Bjornson announced.

This new fund will enable community-based groups to work with partnering schools to provide students with a variety of supports including tutoring, increased family involvement in schools, mentoring, goal-setting, career exploration and bursaries in order to improve high-school graduation rates and increase access to post-secondary education.

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Wanted - Writing Submissions for Featured Learner Writer

 

We would like to regularly feature a Learner Writer on our web site homepage.
If you have a story or poem to share, we would love to read it!
Please see the submissions guidelines.
Contact Us
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