Bridge: Honouring the Lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit People

Working with Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC), the Office of Indigenous Relations (ORI), the Sexual Violence Prevention Response Office (SVPRO), and 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Dr. Sorouja Moll initiated Bridge in 2015 (at the University of Waterloo) to create a space for all University community members to learn about the crisis as they reflect upon their responsibilities, and share in speaking the names of the lives taken to honour and remember them as red fabric is tied to the bridge between Environment 3 and United College.

Opening Ceremony

Thursday, October 24, 2024
10:00AM - 12:00 PM followed by a Soup Lunch 12:30PM - 2:00PM

Closing Ceremony

Thursday, November 7, 2024
10:00AM - 12:00PM followed by a Soup Lunch 12:30PM - 2:00PM

All are invited to a Soup Lunch hosted by the Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre and supported the Faculty of Arts. Al McDonald is returning as the Ceremonial Fire Keeper. 

For the Opening Ceremony we are requesting volunteers to read the names.

The gesture to name, remember, and honour the 5000+ missing and murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People across the many Nations in Canada is an active engagement in learning about the depth of the crisis in the Canada while resisting and (en)countering the existing silence that continues to shroud it. Originally installed in Montreal in 2009, as The Writing Names Project, Moll's research creation initiative is a counter memorial and is part of a meaningful and sustained collaborative intercultural praxis between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.

For more information, please contact Sorouja Moll.