Fwd: REDress Project / Moose Hide Campaign - FEB.13- JAC
Julie Vaudrin-Charette
B.A., M.A., PhD (en cours)
From: Louise Legault <louise....@johnabbott.qc.ca>
Date: lun. 11 févr. 2019 à 07:22
Subject: REDress Project / Moose Hide Campaign - FEB.13- JAC
To: Julie Vaudrin-Charette <jvaudrin...@gmail.com> (jvaudrin...@gmail.com) <jvaudrin...@gmail.com>
Bonjour Julie,
Info à ajouter à Kweicegeps.
Merci.
Louise
Here some information about the event that will take place Wednesday Feb. 13 from 10:30 to 4:30 in the Agora. It is open to the JAC students and staff as well as the general population.
The event co-sponsored by the Indigenous Student Resource Centre, the Indigenous Studies Certificate, the Women’s Studies and Gender Relation Certificate, and the Diversity & Social Equity Office aims at raising awareness about violence towards women and children in general and missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in particular.
Our high level guest speakers are:
Aiden Cyr: is the Youth Ambassador for the Moose Hide Campaign and a student of Public Affairs at Concordia University. The MOOSE Hide Campaign is a grassroots movement of Indigenous and non-Indigenous men and boys who are standing up against violence towards women and children. The movement founded by Paul and Raven Lacerte in BC is now country wide.
Commissioner Qajaq Robinson: commissioner at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, is a graduate of the Akitsiraq Law Program, a partnership between the University of Victoria and Nunavut Arctic College. Born in Iqaluit and raised in Igloolik, Commissioner Robinson is a strong Northern advocate. She has worked on a wide range of issues affecting Indigenous rights. Most recently she worked as legal counsel at the Specific Claims Tribunal travelling to First Nations communities across Canada.
Delilah Saunders: Delilah is a young Inuk women, librettist, author, advocate and policy analyst. She is also the sister of a woman, Loretta Saunders, who was writing her thesis on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, when she was murdered on Feb.13, 2014. Since her sister’s passing, Delilah has carried her sister’s work. She has since been involved in many initiatives to tackle the issue of MMIWG in myriad ways. Delilah has poured her time, energy and love into that cause.
Nakuset: Nakuset is an activist and the Executive Director of the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal. She is Cree from Lac la Ronge Saskatchewan. She was adopted by a Jewish family in Montreal and draws on her adoptee experience in her advocacy work for Indigenous children in care. Nakuset is the creator, producer and host of the television series Indigenous Power, she was voted “Woman of the Year 2014” by the Montreal Council of Women, and she is the Indigenous columnist for MaTV’s CityLife.
The REDress Project: first created by Winnipeg-based Metis artist, Jaime Black in 2010, the now National and annual REDress Projet uses hanging red dresses as a visual to draw attention to the unresolved cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and Two-Spirited Persons in Canada.
- 10:30 Opening by an Elder Amelia Tekwatonti McGregor
- 11:00 Short film about the Moose Hide Campaign and introduction by a member of the campaign, Aiden Cyr. The Moose Hide Campaign--a campaign initiated by Indigenous and non-Indigenous men aimed at challenging violence against women and children.
- 11:30-13:00 Commissioner Qajaq Robinson from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls will speak to the audience.
- 13:00-14:30 Delilah Saunders, an Inuk MMIWG activist, will speak about her activism on the 5-year anniversary of the murder of her sister, Loretta Saunders on Feb 13, 2014.
- 14:30-16:00 Nakuset, director of the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal, will speak on the issues.
- Throughout the day: volunteers and members of the Moose Hide Campaign will be on hand in the Agora alcove to assist in taking uploading, sharing photographs and videos of pledges to end violence against women and to distribute moose hide pins and information on the campaign.
- Red dresses will be prominently displayed as contribution to the installation art of the Red Dress Campaign (http://www.redressproject.org/) The Red Dress project was created by the Metis artist, Jamie Black, as a way of highlighting the disproportionally high numbers of Indigenous women and girls who have either gone missing or been murdered in Canada. In keeping with this project, we will be installing red dresses in public spaces throughout the college as a visual reminder of the staggering number of Indigenous women who are no longer with us.
- Counselors, as well as elder Vicky Boldo, will be on hand throughout the day in a private space for those overwhelmed by the emotions of the subject matter.