{"id":475670733,"date":"2018-03-02T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/herald\/2018\/03\/02\/pink-day-preaches-respect-friendship"},"modified":"2018-03-02T11:28:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T17:28:49","slug":"pink-day-preaches-respect-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/herald\/2018\/03\/02\/pink-day-preaches-respect-friendship","title":{"rendered":"Pink Day preaches respect, friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students across Manitoba and Nunavut connected via the world wide web to celebrate Pink Day.<\/p>\n

Maple Leaf School (251 McIvor Ave.) hosted the fourth annual Canadian Red Cross Pink Day Film Festival on Feb. 28. Over 200 schools across Manitoba and Nunavut logged into a live-streamed event that connected Maple Leaf School with schools in Flin Flon, Man., and Iqaluit and Arviat, Nunavut. <\/p>\n

A dozen student made films on the theme of “every day heroes” were scheduled to be shown, but unfortunate technical difficulties curtailed the screenings. Concordia MLA Matt Wiebe and two RCMP officers dressed in their red serge also attended.<\/p>\n

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Feb. 28, 2018 - Two students from Maple Leaf School (251 McIvor Ave.), Logan and Callum Sorenson, presented their anti-bullying film during the Red Cross Pink Day assembly, which was live-streamed to participating schools in communities across Manitoba and Nunavut. (SHELDON BIRNIE\/CANSTAR\/THE HERALD)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n

Logan and Callum Sorenson, twin brothers in Grade 5 students at Maple Leaf School, introduced their video.<\/p>\n

“A superhero can be anyone,” Logan explained. “Just remember to be kind.”<\/p>\n

A group of students from Seven Oaks Middle School (800 Salter St.) also presented an original video about respecting others.<\/p>\n

“We want people to see (our movie) and spread the message,” Shyah Coss, one of the Grade 8 students from Seven Oaks, said.<\/p>\n

It was the second year that the students from Seven Oaks had taken part in the Pink Day Film Festival.<\/p>\n

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Feb. 28, 2018 - Maple Leaf School (251 McIvor Ave.) hosted the Red Cross Pink Day anti-bullying film festival, which connected participating schools in communities across Manitoba and Nunavut. (SHELDON BIRNIE\/CANSTAR\/THE HERALD)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n

“It was awesome,” Coss said. “You feel like you’re a part of something.”<\/p>\n

Karissa Kirkup, a hockey player for the University of Manitoba Bisons women’s team, spoke at the event.<\/p>\n

“It’s important to be kind and respectful, because you don’t know what someone else might be going through,” Kirkup, who started playing hockey as an eight-year-old in Portage La Prairie, the only girl on an all-boys team. “Some of the nicest people I’ve ever met never had the nicest sticks or equipment. But they just loved coming to the rink every day.”<\/p>\n

The excitement around Maple Leaf School was palpable ahead of and following the event.
“It is amazing and heartwarming to see students dedicated to raising awareness for bullying prevention by creating videos with a strong message,” Rebecca Ulrich, provincial education manager for the Canadian Red Cross, said about the event.<\/p>\n

Videos from the festival can be viewed on the Canadian Red Cross Manitoba YouTube channel at http:\/\/bit.ly\/redcrossmbnufilmfest<\/a><\/p>

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(From left) Grade 8 students from Seven Oaks Middle School (800 Salter St.) Nat Karamchand, Othello Wesee, Evan Karamchand, teacher Jen Davis, Alita Balla, Shyah Coss, and Samantha Carvalho presented a film at the Red Cross Pink Day anti-bullying event at Maple Leaf School (251 McIvor Ave.) on Feb. 28. (SHELDON BIRNIE\/CANSTAR\/THE HERALD)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>
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Feb. 28, 2018 - University of Manitoba Bisons' hockey player Karissa Kirkup spoke to students at Maple Leaf School (251 McIvor Ave.) during the Red Cross Pink Day assembly, which was live-streamed to participating schools in communities across Manitoba and Nunavut. (SHELDON BIRNIE\/CANSTAR\/THE HERALD)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":268109393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,14],"tags":[],"education-subject":[],"media-literacy-topic":[],"post_topic":[],"content_type":[24],"class_list":["post-475670733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-herald","category-souwester","category-times"],"acf":{"short_title":"","seo_title":"","deck":"Annual Red Cross event connected students across Manitoba, Nunavut","story_tag":"","byline":"Sheldon Birnie","updates":null},"apple_news_notices":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/herald\/2018\/03\/02\/pink-day-preaches-respect-friendship","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Pink Day preaches respect, friendship","url":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/herald\/2018\/03\/02\/pink-day-preaches-respect-friendship","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/herald\/2018\/03\/02\/pink-day-preaches-respect-friendship"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/sb-Pink-Mar7.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/sb-Pink-Mar7.jpg"},"articleSection":"The Herald","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"feedloaderapi"}],"creator":["feedloaderapi"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Our Communities","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2018-03-02T17:22:00Z","datePublished":"2018-03-02T17:22:00Z","dateModified":"2018-03-02T17:28:49Z"},"rendered":"