Convocation 2025
Convocation is a time to formally acknowledge and celebrate your educational successes with your family, friends, classmates and the Selkirk College community.
Save the date for Convocation: Thursday, May 22, 2025!
This event will be livestreamed!
Have questions about Convocation? Browse some FAQs.
Frequently Asked Questions About Convocation
Student and Guest Information
- Please leave valuable items at home as there is no coat check.
- There is plenty of parking and accessible parking is available. Attendants will direct you.
- Doors open to the gym for seating one hour before the ceremony. Seating is first come, first served.
- Selkirk College is a scent-free area, even for Convocation.
- The cafeteria is closed. Limited drinks and snacks will be available for purchase in the bookstore. Water-filler stations will be available, please bring your water bottle.
Leading the Ceremony: Sturgeon Scale Paddle
The ceremony will be led by a Sturgeon Scale Paddle made by artist and scholar Shawn Brigman, PhD. Dr. Brigman is an enrolled member of the Spokane Tribe and a descendant of the Columbia Plateau First Nations: snʕáyckst (Sinixt), sənpʕʷilx (San Poil) and Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc (Shuswap).
Using materials from the land, the artist has beautifully captured the relationship between people, the land, and the rivers, lakes and mountains of the traditional territories on which Selkirk College is so honoured to operate. The seven sturgeon scales inscribed on the paddle signify the seven life teachings of humility, courage, honesty, wisdom, truth, respect and love.