The first gathering was held at the Membertou Trade and Convention Center in January where comedian, MC and keynote speaker, Candy Palmater joined the students. Palmater is a Canadian comedian, international speaker and the educator of Indigenous perceptions. She is active in Native and gay rights, and is now the creator and writer of her own national TV show for APTN, The Candy Show.
Candy had the students’ total attention as she spoke about her journey to finish school, play varsity sports and to stand as her class Valedictorian in Law School and how she had to be a crab who crawled out of the bucket. She spoke of how "friends" might be happy with you when you are one of the crabs-doing what they are doing and sharing the same dreams, but when you aspire for more some of the "friends" or even as Candy suggests family members may not be very supportive of seeing the crabs crawl out of their bucket. Her speech was very inspiring, entertaining and gave the crowd a few laughs along the way.
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| Candy giving her speech on the 2nd day of the gathering |
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| Some of the students looking very interested in Candy's speech |
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| Candy speaking to the group at dinner on day 1 of the gathering |
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