Music for the Spirit A Gift for a Lifetime   Winnipeg Quaker Meeting and Epiphany Indigenous Anglican Church in Winnipeg have launched an initiative to support music-based youth suicide prevention programs in Indigenous communities in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and northwest Ontario.  We are grateful for the encouragement of the Indigenous Anglican Church of Canada and the support of the Anglican Parish of Six Nations in southern Ontario that runs a community-based project of the same name for the purpose of “creating friendships, joy and laughter” (www.musicforthespirit.ca). Currently we are working with musicians, teachers and suicide prevention workers in Cross Lake (northern Manitoba) and Montreal Lake (northern Saskatchewan) to develop music programs to keep their children and youth safe. We are seeking donations of musical instruments (guitars, fiddles, ukuleles, keyboards, drum sets) – or money to buy them. We also welcome other partners to develop and fundraise for this project and to build relationships with Indigenous communities in the spirit of Reconciliation and responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action. Your financial donation of $50 puts a ukulele in a child’s hands, $120 a guitar, $220 a violin. And the honoraria paid to local music teachers provides at least […]