MHSBC Future Events
Important MHSBC Events planned for 2024
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500 Concert Tickets: Tickets are selling fast and you won't want to miss out, get your tickets today!
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General Admission Available until Feb 15: $35.00; MHSBC Member Price Available until Feb 15: $30.00.
Still time to sponsor this event, call us 604-853-6177 ext 203.
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Messages from Aileen Friesen Co-director of the Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies at The University of Winnipeg
Do you have a Mennonite history-related project that needs financial support? The Plett Foundation may be able to help! Twice a year, the Plett Foundation awards
grants to support research and publications. The next grant application deadline is October 1.
Research grants cover expenses like travel and accommodation for research trips. Publication grants may be used for the production of books,
documentaries, and exhibits. To qualify, projects must be related to the history of the Mennonites who migrated to Canada from Russia in the 1870s, t
heir descendants, or their ancestors.
Projects funded by the Plett Foundation in the past include:
- A video setting of Patrick Friesen's poem "Maria".
- Publication of Nina Schroeder-van 't Schip's forthcoming book Mennonites and Art in the Dutch Republic: Church, Home, and Art Marketplace (1581-1795)
- Production of a historical atlas of Manitoba's West Reserve
- Dale Hildebrand's documentary film
about the 1870s migration of Mennonites to Manitoba
- Research trips to Poland, Mexico, Bolivia, and Paraguay
For more information and to apply, visit our website.
— Aileen Friesen
Executive Director, Plett Foundation
Co-director, CTMS
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Messages from Ben Nobbs-Thiessen Chair in Mennonite Studies & Co-director of CTMS at the Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies at The University of Winnipeg
I'm pleased to share that the video recordings of our recent conference, "Subjects, Settlers, Citizens: The 1870s Mennonites in Historical Context," are now
available on our YouTube channel.
The conference was a stimulating two days, with twenty-three excellent presentations, a keynote address by Elder
Dave Scott, and a premiere screening of
Where the Cottonwoods Grow.
(You won't find the film on our YouTube channel, but see the website of the
Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society for further screenings .)
It's always good to see and interact with the large community of interested individuals who
come out for our Mennonite studies events!
Next year's conference, titled "Global Mennonites and the Justice System since 1525: Martyrs, Perpetrators, Enforcers, and Advocates," will be held October 3 and 4, 2025.
Stay tuned for more information about this and other happenings at CTMS!
— Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
Chair in Mennonite Studies & co-director of CTMS
Revisit Our Conference Schedule: Conference Schedule.
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