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Bridge 2023: Honouring the Lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People
2023-10-27 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | STP - United College 190 Westmount Road North Waterloo ON N2L 3G5 Canada
Please participate in _Bridge__: Honouring the Lives of Missing and
Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People, _an annual
installation for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence at
the University of Waterloo.

* OPENING CEREMONY ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27 AT 10:00 AM
* CLOSING CEREMONY ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10 AT 10:00 AM

Both ceremonies will take place at the Ceremonial Fire Grounds and the
bridge between Environment 3 and United College and will be followed
by a catered Soup Lunch and Creative Reflection.

All are invited to stay for a Soup Lunch
[https://uwaterloo.ca/united-college/soup-and-bannock-days] hosted by
the Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC) and
supported by the Department of Communication Arts after the Opening
and Closing Ceremonies from 12:30 to 1:30 PM. Al McDonald is
returning as the Ceremonial Fire Keeper.

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 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 as the
red fabric is tied to the bridge between Environment 3 and United
College.

For the Opening Ceremony, we are requesting volunteers to read the
names — please contact Sorouja Moll.

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 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.

Watch the_ Bridge: Honouring the Lives of Missing and Murdered
Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People 2019 _video_._
[https://youtu.be/Zu2t6LifQl0]

Information Session - Master of Peace and Conflict Studies
2019-12-02 17:30
The Master of Peace and Conflict Studies program is a dynamic degree
that focuses on careers in the field of peacebuilding. The department
will be hosting an information session for interested students on
Monday, December 2nd at 5:30PM.
