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

Join us at the Ceremonial Fire Grounds, United College Soup Lunch follows the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, All invited to gather for a meal. Science Indigenous Office STC - Science Teaching Complex, Room 1013

We are grateful to the Office of Indigenous Relations (OIR), Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO), 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Faculty of Arts, and the UW communities. Ryan Blackwolf is returning as the Ceremonial Fire Keeper.

Dr. Sorouja Moll initiated Bridge in 2015 (at the University of Waterloo). The gathering creates 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 and to honour and remember them as red fabric is tied to the bridge between Environment 3 and United College. For the Opening Ceremony we are requesting volunteers to help 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 a Call to Action to learn 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 relationship bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.

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

For more information: Sorouja Moll smoll@uwaterloo.ca