Booking
For inquiries about booking an FPHL space and/or staff member, please contact fphlbookings@trentu.ca.
For all booking requests, please fill out the form in the link below and return to the above email.
Spaces Available:
Gathering Space
The event space is a beautiful 1400 sq ft room with outdoor access. The room comfortably fits tables and up to 75 people. It has a sink and microwave. Two televisions connected to a Trent computer hub make it excellent for presentations. It is not set up as a hybrid meeting room but we can advise you on that process. Great for small events.
Student Club/Group/Levy Group: $0
Trent Departmental Group/Graduate Students/Studies: $75 for 3 hours or less; $175 per day
Non-Profit Organization: $75 for 3 hours or less; $175 per Day
Local Business/Corporate Fee: $150 for 3 hours or less; $350 per day
Peterborough Traditional Space
The Mnidoowag A’Kiing (The Spirit Lands) Traditional Area is an outdoor green space south of Enwayaang Building (Gzowski College) and is surrounded by a large grove of beautiful cedars. Central to the area is our Tipi, which holds approximately 20 people inside and contains 6 wooden benches as the main seating. In addition to our Tipi is the wigwam, fashioned from both traditional and contemporary materials and techniques. This cultural learning space also contains wooden benches as seating and can hold a small number of people inside. In the outdoor spaces, you can find the medicine garden and additional planters containing traditional medicines and other plants cared for by the firekeepers and other FPHL staff. We ask that you do not touch the plants, but the garden can be a wonderful place to contemplate or work quietly. Surrounding the gardens and tipi is additional green space containing a couple of picnic tables and room for your group to sit in the grass to conduct outdoor activities. This space is perfect for small groups looking to host their group activities outside or around the fire, or for groups looking for a place to hold ceremony. The tipi is accessible for wheelchair users via a paved path leading from the parking lot to the tipi. The green space surrounding the tipi is visible from the paved path, it is not easily accessible via wheelchair due to the uneven ground.
Please note that you must book an FPHL or approved community firekeeper in order to light a fire.
Half-day: $50
Full-day: $100
Trent Classes: By donation
Costs will be used for the payment of firekeepers and to replenish any wood used.
Durham Tipi
The Endaayang (Our Home) Traditional Area features the Tipi, where FPHL holds social fires and ceremonies with the help of our Fire Keepers. The Tipi contains 6 wooden benches that can comfortably seat 11 people and our Fire Keeper around the fire pit. Outside of the Tipi, the small green space includes several picnic tables and small metal benches available for seating. The Tipi sits on gravel terrain, which is surrounded by cement that is accessible from the sidewalk. Our Tipi is accessible for wheelchairs, and we would be happy to accommodate for any other accessibility needs, just let us know! This area is located behind Building A, near the back parking lot.
Please note that you must book an FPHL or approved community firekeeper in order to light a fire.
Half-day: $50
Full-day: $100
Trent Classes: By donation
Costs will be used for the payment of firekeepers and to replenish any wood used.
FPHL Staff Bookings:
FPHL staff members are available for educational visits, public speaking, staff training and other events. Please inquire for fees which will be negotiated based on the size of your organization and need.
Just Get Over It Workshop:
A 2hr interactive truth-telling immersion from Indigenous perspectives into North America.
Members of the FPHL team and collaborators at Trent University facilitate an interactive storytelling workshop from an Indigenous perspective and lens. Our team consists of Indigenous activists, educators, knowledge holders and trained mental health support. This workshop is an interactive truth-telling immersion exercise that seeks to educate, engage and enact accountability. Moving through a timeline that begins pre-contact we unveil events of colonization that address intergenerational trauma. Participants become part of the actualization of truth-telling and are given solutions and ideas towards allyship and their own journey in reconciliation. Part of our truth-telling involves the sharing of difficult lived experiences and we ask that an open mind and heart be brought to this experience.
Topics: Gender Discrimination within the Indian Act, 60’s scoop, Millennial Scoop, Residential Schools, Day Schools, MMIGW&G, Two-Spirit experience and perspective
More on our Project can be found here: https://www.trentu.ca/fphl/news-events/32501