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September 2015 Inclusive Holidays & Events Calendar September 2015 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 Leaves Turning Colour August 31 First Parkash/ Sri Krishna Jayanti/ International Day of Moon- Waabagaa Dibiki LPS PA Day: Installation of Holy Janmashtami Charity (UN) Giizis (this month, Scriptures of Guru (Hinduism) Elementary & Anishinaabe) Granth Sahib (Sikhism) Secondary Farvardegan (Fasli Zoroastrianism) LPS First Day of School for All Students 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Birth of H.H. International Literacy Enkutatash Ghamber Paitishem Sakya Trizin Day (UN) (Ethopian New Year) begins (Zarathushti/ (Buddhism) Zorostrianism) ‘Izzat (Baha’i) Nayrouz (Orthodox Labour Day Christianity) Tatsunokuchi (Canada) (Buddhism) Paryvshan-parva (ends 18th – Jainism) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Eve of Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah International Day of Ghambar Paitishem Ganesh/ Samvatsari / Powley Day (begins at sundown, (Judaism) Democracy (UN) ends (Zarathushti/ Vinayak Dashalakshani- (Aboriginal - Métis) Judaism) Zorostrainism) Chauth parva begins (Hinduism) (Jainism) Holy Cross Day Rosh Hashanah International Day for Auditor’s Day (Christianity) (Judaism) the Preservation of (Scientology) Ascension of Guru the Ozone Layer (UN) Angad (Sikhism) New Moon Death of Guru Amar Das, Ascension of Guru Ramdas, Death of Guru Arjan (Sikhism) 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 International Day Eihei Dogen Kigen Shuhun-no-hi (Shinto) Fall Harvest International Day of Peace (UN) Memorial (Buddhism) (CCUPCY) for the Total Harvestide / Mabon Elimination of (Wicca) Eid-ul Adha Death of Guru Nanak Nuclear Weapons (Islamic) (UN) (Sikhism) Yom Kippur (Judaism) Anant Chaturdashi Fall Harvest (CCUPCY) Waqfatu’Arafat (Hinduism) (Islamic) Fall Equinox Fall Harvest (CCUPCY) 27 28 29 30 Anant Chaturdashi Ksamavani / Kathina (ends Nov. 5 – World Maritime Day (Jainism) Dashalakshani- Buddhism) (UN) parva ends Harvest Moon Festival (Jainism) (China) Terry Fox Run (Canada, Thunder Bay) Ally Week Sukkot begins (Judaism) (LGBTQ) Orange Shirt Day Mashiyyat (Baha’i) (National Indian Residential School Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse Remembrance) Inclusive Holidays & Events Calendar October 2015 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 Leaves Falling Moon LBGTQ History Women’s History International Day of Mehragan Day of German – Binaakiwii Dibiki Month Month (Canada) Older Persons (UN) (Zoroastrianism) Unity (Germany) Giizis (Month, Anishinaabe) International Day of Non-Violence (UN) Ally Week ends (LGBTQ) 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 World Communion Shemini Atzeret Simchat Torah International Birth of Guru World Mental Sunday (Judaism) (Judaism) Association of Ramdas (Sikhism) Health Day (WHO (Christianity) Scientologists Day UN) World Habitat Day (Scientology) World Post Day (UN) Sukkot ends (UN) (Judaism) World Teachers Day (UN) World Space Week (UN) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 International Day of Thanksgiving Day Navaratri begins First Day of International Day of World Food Day International Day the Girl Child (UN) (Canada) (Hinduism) Muharram, Al-Hijra Rural Women (UN) (UN) for the Eradication (New Year, Islamic) of Poverty (UN) Coming Out Day Ghambar Ayathrem ‘IIm (Baha’i) (LGBTQ) International Day begins (lasts to the for Disaster World Sight Day 16th, Zarathushti/ (UN) Reduction (UN) Zorostrainism) Solar Eclipse New Moon 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Durga Puja begins Birth of the Bab Navaratri ends Dassehra (Hinduism) Durga Puja ends World Development (Hindu) (Baha’i) (Hinduism) (Hindu) Information Day (UN) Installation of the Ashura (Islam) Chung Yeung Sri Guru Granth Tenth day of Sahib Ji (Sikhism) Festival (China, Muharram Ashura Hong Kong, Taiwan) (Islamic) Durga Puja Death of Guru (Hinduism) United Nations Day Gobind Singh (UN) (Sikhism) 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Kathina / Pavarana National Day ‘Ochi’ Karva Chauth Samhain (Wicca) Day (Buddhism) (Greece) (Hinduism) Halloween (Canada) Lunar Eclipse Full Moon Reformation Day (Protestant Christianity) Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva’s Pravraiya / The Buddhist Joy Day (Buddhism) Please visit the Equity and Inclusion Committee at: http://www.lakeheadschools.ca/about/equityandinclusion Inclusive Holidays & Events Calendar November 2015 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 All Saints Day All Souls Day Bunka No Hi Qudrat (Baha’i) Kathina ends International Day (Christianity) (Catholic (Culture Day, Japan) (Buddhism) for Preventing the Christianity) Take Our Kids To Exploitation of the Samhain (Wicca) Work (Canada) Guy Fawkes Day Environment in War Dia De Los Muertos (UK, England) and Armed Conflict Daylight Savings (Mexico) (UN) Time ends (at 2am USA, Canada) Dia De Finades (Portugal) 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Kristallnacht (1938 Diwali (begins at Diwali (Hinduism, Birth of Baha’u’llah International World World Diabetes Day Commemoration) sundown, Hinduism) Jainism) (Baha’i) Kindness Day (UN) (International) World Science Day Mahavira Nirvana Skanda Shashti for Peace and (Jainism) Vratham (New Year, th Development Remembrance Day until Nov. 16 , (UNESCO) (Canada) Hinduism) Bandi Chhor Divas Enlightenment day (Sikhism) of Gautamswami / New Year (Jainism) Armistice Day (France) New Moon 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Bullying Awareness Louis Riel Day International World Philosophy Universal Children’s World Television and Prevention (Métis – Aboriginal) Students’ Day (UN) Day (UN) Day (UN) Day (UN) Week (ON) International Day Transgendered Day Advent begins for Tolerance (UN) of Remembrance (Christmas Fast; E- Jnana Panchami (LGBTQ) Old Calendar) (Jainism) LPS PA/Report Nativity Fast (ends Card Day: Dec. 24; Orthodox Anti-Bullying Week Elementary & Christianity) Secondary National Addictions Week (Canada) 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Qawl (Bahi’i) Martyrdom of Guru International Day Day of the Covenant Ascension of Tegh Bahadar Ji for the Elimination (Baha’i) ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Sikhism) of Violence Against (Baha’i) Women (UN) Dev Diwali (Jainism) Adargan (Zoroastrianism) Birth of Guru Nanak Dev Ji (Sikhism) Full Moon 29 30 First Sunday of St. Andrew’s Day Advent (Christianity) (Scotland, Christianity) National Native Freezing Moon – American Heritage Baashkaakodin Month (USA) Dibiki Giizis (Month, Anishinaabe) Inclusive Holidays & Events Calendar December 2015 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 Little Spirit Moon – Universal Human World AIDS Day International Day International Day of International Manidoo Giiz’soons Rights Month (UN) (UN) for the Abolition of Persons with Volunteer Day for (Month, Slavery (UN) Disabilities (UN) Economic and Social Anishinaabe) Rosa Parks Day Development (UN) (USA) World Soil Day (UN) 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Eve of Hanukkah Hanukkah begins Rohatsu/Awakening International Anti- Human Rights Day International Advent Fast (begins at sundown, (Judaism) Day/Bodhi Day Corruption Day (UN) Mountain Day (Christmas Fast; Judaism) (Buddhism) (UN) (UN) Orthodox Christianity) Pearl Harbor Day St. Nicholas Day (USA) Feast of Immaculate New Moon Masa’il (Baha’i) (Christianity) Conception International Civil Jamhuri (Christianity) Aviation Day (UN) (Independence Day, National Day of Kenya) Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, White Ribbon Day (Canada) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Aga Khan’s Birthday Hanukkah ends Jashan-e-Sadeh International (Islamic) (Judaism) (Fasli Migrants Day (UN) Zoroastrianism) Luciadagen (Sweden) 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 International Martyrdom of Guru Tohji-taisai (Shinto) Joseph Smith’s Eid-Maulad-un-Nabi Christmas Day Death of Prophet Human Solidarity Gobind Singhs Birthday (Mormon) (Islamic) (Christianity) Zarathustra Yule / Winter Day (UN) Eldest two sons (Zarathushti/ Solstice (Wicca) Sanghamitta Day (Sikhism) Mawlid Al-Nabi Zoroastrainism) (Buddhism) Maunajiyaras (Islamic) (Jainism) Manu-agiyaras Yalda/Shab-e-Yalda Martyrdom Guru (Jainism) (Zoroastrainism) Full Moon Gobind Singhs Youngest two sons December Solstice (Sikhism) Kwanzaa (African- Canadian, until January 1) LPS Winter Holidays (Dev. 21- Boxing Day (Canada) January 1) St. Stephen’s Day (Ireland) Junkanoo (Bahamas) 27 28 29 30 31 Amitabha Buddha’s Wounded Knee Day Rizal Day Ghambr Maidyarem Birthday (Buddhism) (Lakota Sioux (Phillipines) begins (until Jan. 4, Massacre in South Zarathushti/ Dakota 1890, USA) Zoroastrainism) Sharaf (Baha’i) Omisoka (Japan) Hogmanay (Scotland) New Year’s Eve (International) Inclusive Holidays & Events Calendar January 2016 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 Spirit Moon – New Year’s Day Manidoo Dibiki Giizis (International) (Month, Anishinaabe) Temple Day (Buddism) Shogatsu (Shinto) Feast of St. Basil (Orthodox Christianity) Gantan-Sai begins (Shinto) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Milad-al-Nabi Birth of Sri Guru Epiphany (Christianity) Feast of the New Moon LPS School Resumes (Islamic) Gobind Singh (Sihkism) Nativity/Christmas Tomorrow Jan. 4th Feast of the Theophany (Orthodox World Braille Day Gattan-Sai ends (Orthodox Christianity) Christianity) (International) (Shinto) Twelfth Night (Christianity) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Baptism of the Lord Seijin Shiki Maghi (Sikhism) Makar Sankranti LPS Religious (Christianity) (Adults’ Day, /Pongal (Hinduism) PA/Report Card Day: Freedom Day Shinto) Lohri (Hinduism) (UN) Elementary ONLY New Year’s Day (Orthodox Christianity) 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 World Religion Day Dr. Martin Luther Timkat (Ethopian Tailang Swami Jayanti Full Moon (UN, Baha’i) King Jr. Day (USA) Orthodox Christianity) (Hinduism) LPS Secondary LPS Secondary Exams Exams Epiphany (Orthodox Timkat (Ethopian Sakyamuni Buddha’s Christianity) Orthodox Christianity) Enlightenment
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