Special Olympics Canada Winter Games to Move Safeway’s Champions Celebration Inside to Calgary’s City Hall on Saturday

February 29, 2024

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Special Olympics Canada Winter Games to Move Safeway’s Champions Celebration Inside to Calgary’s City Hall on Saturday

CALGARY—Due to an expected blast of cold weather on Saturday, the Special Olympics Canada Winter Games Calgary 2024 will move its Safeway Champions Celebration inside to Calgary’s City Hall Atrium.

The Games Organizing Committee will hold a public come-and-go event, March 2 from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. for Calgarians to show their support for the more than 800 Special Olympics athletes competing at the Games. Only 1,000 people will be able to access the Atrium at any given time.

Put on your red and white clothing and celebrate the power of the Special Olympics movement by joining the community for a day of fun activities and entertainment. The FREE event for the whole family will include a pancake breakfast, fun prize giveaways, DJ music, and photo booths while cheering on the Games’ medallists as they take the podium for an awards presentation.

When: March 2, 2024 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. MTN
Where: Calgary’s City Hall Atrium 800 Macleod Trail SE

For further information, please contact:

Chris Dornan
Special Olympics Canada Winter Games Calgary 2024
T: 403-620-8731

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The Bow and Elbow rivers meet is a place of confluence where the sharing of ideas and opportunities naturally come together. February 2024, Calgary will be gathering place for more than 1,200 Special Olympics athletes from across Canada in their pursuit of sport excellence and connection. Indigenous peoples have their own names for this area that have been in use long before Scottish settlers named this place Calgary. The Métis call the Calgary area Otos-kwunee [“oh-tus-skwahnee”]. In the Blackfoot language, they call this place, Moh-kins-tsis [“mohk-kin-stis”]. The Îethka Stoney Nakoda Nation refer to the Calgary area as Wîchîspa Oyade [“win chee spa oy ah day”] and the people of the Tsuut’ina [“sut sinah”] nation call this area Guts-ists-i [“Goot-sits-say”]. We would like to acknowledge that the Special Olympics Canada Winter Games Calgary 2024 will be located on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta. This includes: the Siksika [“sit-sicka”], Piikani [“peegun-ee”], and Kainai [“gay-nah”] collectively known as the Blackfoot Confederacy; the Îethka [“yitch ka”] Nakoda Wîcastabi [“wee che stahbi”] First Nations, comprised of the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Good Stoney Bands; and the Tsuut’ina [“sut sinah”] First Nation. The city of Calgary is also homeland to the historic Northwest Métis and to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3. We acknowledge all Indigenous urban Calgarians, First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, who have made Calgary their home. We work, play and reside on this sacred gathering place and the Games will provides us with an opportunity to engage in and demonstrate leadership on reconciliation.