Events:

Weeders needed!!

The Carol Shields Memorial Labyrinth needs help weeding the gardens. It’s a wonderful family activity and you’ll learn something about indigienous plant species and ecological gardening.

Our next group weeding times are: Wednesday, June 10 – 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, June 16 – 7:00 p.m. Monday, June 22 – 7:00 p.m.     Community volunteers & Ecole St. Avila weeding

Bring your own weeding tool and if you have a spray bottle you can mix up a batch of this Environment Friendly Weed Killer and bring it down with you.

Environment Friendly Weed Killer 4 cups vinegar ¼ cup salt 2 teaspoons dish detergent Mix all ingredients together and spray on weeds in bright sunlight.     Community volunteers & Ecole St. Avila weeding

If you want to join our weeding teams, we will train you during our weeding sessions. If you can't attend any of the sessions listed, E-mail us and we’ll arrange for a volunteer to meet you at the labyrinth for a 10 minute training session.

We are asking people not to weed until they have had a training session. Last year we lost some plants because some of the indigenous species are hard to distinguish from weeds.

Carol Shields Memorial Labyrinth Location

To get to the Carol Shields Memorial Labyrinth in Winnipeg, Manitoba
Come south on Pembina Highway. Turn down University Crescent. Keep on University Crescent, driving right past the University of Manitoba which is on the left. Drive past all the stop lights. Keep driving around the curve at the south end of the University until you get to the stop sign at King's Drive. Turn off of King's Drive into King's Park which is on the left. Drive past the first parking lot. Park in the second parking lot. Follow the Trail with the gate past the pond. The Carol Shields Memorial Labyrinth is at the south end of the pond.

Exploring Sacred Space - Labyrinth Experience Sunday, May 24, 2009 click here for more pictures click here for Karen Toole's reflection We would like to thank LIGHT for their help in planning theExploring Sacred Space - Labyrinth Experience event

Official Opening Sunday May 10, 2009 click here for more pictures

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Trinity United Church Labyrinth Walk Maundy Thursday Labyrinth Walk

Carol Shields Memorial Labyrinth Sod Turning

Ecole St. Avila Student

Anne Giardini and Allison Howard reading from A Memoir of Friendship: The Letters Between Carol Shields and Blanche Howard

Dignitaries holding umbrellas for Ecole St. Avila students

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Buy a Brick, Boulder or Bench! click here

Portage and District Arts Centre
Clear Pathways - The Labyrinth Exhibition
Oct. 2 - Nov. 3 - 11 -2nd NE, Portage la Prairie, MB

Shoe Labyrinth - Jennie O'Keefe & James Culleton

Food Donation Labyrinth - Manitoba Labyrinth Network

Book Club Labyrinth Walk Pembina Trail Library, April 14 We created a labyrinth from books that were recommended from national and local authors, public personalities and book clubs. As the public walked the book labyrinth they could see who had recommended each book. When they reached the centre they could pick up the book list. It was fun and we all took home some wonderful reading ideas! click here for the Book List

Marjorie Anderson, author of: Dropped Threads 3, reading from the new book, Blessed: Portrait of Asdis Sigrun Anderson by Katrina Anderson at The Book Club Labyrinth Walk.

Soup Tin Labyrinth Walk

Ecole St. Avila students walking the labyrinth	Bruce Michalski, Winnipeg Harvest, & Gordon Campbell, Principal Ecole St. Avila

The Manitoba Labyrinth Network helped Ecole St. Avila students create a labyrinth in their gym with soup tins and food items that they collected for Winnipeg Harvest. The students and staff walked the labyrinth this afternoon and then donated the food items to Winnipeg Harvest. A grade 5 class made a presentation about labyrinths and the Carol Shields Memorial Labyrinth at the school assembly in the morning. Then a grade 6 class helped set up the labyrinth, magically moving soup tins, pasta, cereal boxes, diapers, shampoo and other donated items into a labyrinth pattern. The labyrinth was a new design that they altered and improved as the labyrinth progressed. Some of the students decided that we should include gym mats for the outside path of the labyrinth. One teacher brought down some Christmas lights that flickered and another teacher found some small Christmas trees. The whole labyrinth mushroomed into a creative collaboration in keeping with the focus of the holiday season!!

Pumpkin Labyrinth Walk, 2006

Ecole St. Avila walking the Pumpkin Labyrinth	Creating the Pumpkin Labyrinth

Carved Pumpkin Auction

Fort Richmond Collegiate student's carved pumpkins	Dalhousie Elementary School create decorations

St. Avila School - walking a snow labyrinth at King's Park

Path of the Labyrinth River Heights Library	Carol Shields Memorial Labyrinth Pembina Trail Library
Native American Labyrinths St John’s Library	Labyrinth and Myth St. James Library

Schools

Universities

1st. year students

pre-master's landscape architecture students

Community Groups

Riding Mountain Heritage Committee September 11 walk	Native Labyrinth presentation Keeseekoowenin Ojibway First Nation
L’Arche Winnipeg	Wolseley Family Place

Labyrinth Companions

Manitoba Labyrinth Network facilitators who participate in ongoing learning, information sharing, relationship building, developing connections and mentoring. Facilitator, presenter, trainer: Anne Nesbitt

Next facilitator training session: To be announced

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If you get a chance, go see the Labyrinth mural at Creative Retirement,
270 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
click mural for more.

Events and activities related to the Carol Shields Memorial Labyrinth will be announced.

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