Happy Irreecha ! Baga Booqaa Birraa Geessan !
Happy Irreecha ! Baga Booqaa Birraa Geessan !
Baga Booqaa Birraa Geessan !
Happy Irrecha !
Oromo Thanksgiving
Irreecha is an Indigenous Oromo thanksgiving celebration. The word irreecha simply means lush green grass plucked and offered for gratitude, blessings, or prayers. But irreecha is also a weeks-long national thanksgiving festival marking seasonal transitions annually and in resonance with natural phenomena.
The most colorful irreecha celebrated across the Oromo land and in the Oromo diaspora around the world is the one around the end of September, marking the end of the rainy season. In many cases, Oromos and their friends gather for annual rituals of thanksgiving, cleansing, renewal, and affirmation.
Invitation to Addooyyee Sisterhood
Join us in our pilot project of Addooyyee Sisterhood. We will reclaim the richness of the repressed knowledges and practices of Addooyyee to empower young women and girls. We explore the core values and principles of relationality, solidarity, equity, and justice and what they meant in the Addooyyee practices and how they can be reframed to highlight the possibilities and pathways of gender justice in the diaspora. We will co-learn and unlearn the various aspects of Addooyyee sisterhood, and the values they uphold. And we will reframe them for our global context together.
We are launching our very first pilot project in the Washington DC metropolitan area in summer of 2024. If you are an unmarried, sixteen years of age and up, please sign up below.
Happy International Women’s Month!
Honouring Paula Gonzalez
Reclaiming connection, solidarity, equity and justice to empower all women
We at the Siinqee Institute are a network of Individuals and small groups coming together from across different social, cultural, political, spiritual and geographical boundaries. Our shared dream is to reclaim the three basic siinqee principles of connection, solidarity, and equity and justice to empower women and facilitate engaged vibrant communities in sustainable environments.
Knowledge Mobilization
Mobilizing knowledge is creating ways of moving research into communities, rescuing knowledge that collects dust on library shelves. It is how communities grab knowledge off of those shelves and make it walk into communities. It is how they make it their own, make it tell their stories, be their voice, cry with them, laugh with them, sing and dance with them.
Contact
Feel free to contact us with any inquiries.
Email
siinqeeinstitute@gmail.com