Program

Celebrating Communities Conference 2011
Rodd’s Grand Hotel
Yarmouth, NS
September 28 -30, 2011

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

12:00pm - 2:00pm
Registration and Local Market
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Plenary Session
  • Welcome
    Town Crier (David Ollie)
    Samuel de Champlain (Wayne Melanson)
  • Opening Remarks – Allister Surette
  • Catherine Woodman, Lieutenant Governor’s Community Spirit Award
  • Julie Oliver  - CDENE tourism vignette (15 minutes)
  • Keynote speaker: Ed Matwawana

 

5:00pm - 5:30pm
Reception
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Buffet Dinner with Speaker
7:00pm - 7:00pm
Shuttle bus service from Rodd to Mariner Centre
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Cultural Celebration – Acadian Showcase


Celebrating Communities presents a night of cultural celebration. This high-energy evening will display Nova Scotia's diversity and rich culture. It is hosted by the Conseil de développement économique de la Nouvelle-Écosse (CDÉNÉ), community of Yarmouth and the Acadian regions of Clare and Argyle.

  • Ryan Doucette offering his humoristic skits in the art of corporal mime and inspired by the happenings of everyday life. The perfectly calculated body movements, his acrobatics, facial expressions, and other gestures, combined with the skillful sound effects that accompany them, make his performance a highly entertaining and original tour de force.
     
  • La Baie en Joie allowing you to be swept away to the haunting sounds of the violins and the beckoning sounds of dancing feet in a show vibrant with colour.
     
  • Grand Dérangement, our very own award-winning group is very eclectic in its musical approach, drawing from such disparate musical inspiration as French chansonniers, folk, Celtic, rock, and Broadway. The rhythms are contagious, the dancers enthralling. The group builds a bridge between the old and the new, between the local and the universal. Grand Dérangement is creating a new Acadian musical repertoire, one that will survive for as long as Acadian culture remains alive and vital.
     

Thursday, September 29, 2011

7:30am - 8:30pm
Breakfast
8:00am - 5:00pm
Registration
8:30am - 10:00am
Plenary Session and Orientation


Facilitator – Paul-Émile LeBlanc

Our stories – Café du monde

10:00am - 10:30am
Refreshment Break
10:30am - 11:45am
Our Stories – Café du monde
12:00pm - 3:45pm
Excursions


Excursion 1: Argyle - Calvin d’Entremont


Excursion 2 : Yarmouth - Maurita Fevens


Excursion 3 : Clare - Dennis Comeau

3:45pm - 3:45pm
Return to Hotel
5:15pm - 5:15pm
Bus departure to Mariners Centre
5:30pm - 6:15pm
Reception
6:30pm - 9:30pm
Dinner and Gala Awards


Emcee Neil LeBlanc

Friday, September 30, 2011

8:30am - 9:30am
Breakfast
9:30am - 10:45am
Plenary Session – Julie Oliver and Ross MacDonald
  • Out-takes from videos of 2011 finalists
  • Summary of site visits with photos
    - Gwen LeBlanc– Field Trip 1 Argyle
    - Nora Saulnier – Field Trip 2 Yarmouth
    - Colin Saulnier - Field Trip 3 Clare
  • Question and Answer Period
  • Chris Weir, Community Counts
10:45am - 11:00am
Refreshment Break
11:00am - 11:45am
Panel Session - Inspiring Social Enterprise
  • Moderated by Joseph Nyemah, NS Economic and Rural Development and Tourism

Panelists:

  • Monette Robichaud
  • Jessie Jollymore
  • Lori Edgar

 

11:45am - 12:15pm
Motivational Departure Message


Pam Mood
Mood Coaching & Consulting

12:15pm - 12:30pm
Recap of Conference


Julie Oliver and Ross MacDonald

12:30pm - 1:30pm
Buffet Lunch