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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/sexual-violence-prevention-response-office/events/
 closing-ceremony-bridge-honouring-lives-missing-and-murdered
LOCATION:STP - United College 190 Westmount Road North Waterloo ON N2L 3G5 
 Canada
SUMMARY:Closing Ceremony - Bridge: Honouring the Lives of Missing and Murde
 red\nIndigenous Women\, Girls\, and Two Spirit People
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:BRIDGE 2023: HONOURING THE LIVES OF MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGE
 NOUS\nWOMEN\, GIRLS\, AND TWO SPIRIT PEOPLE\n\nAn annual installation for
  16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based\nViolence\n[https://uwaterloo.c
 a/sexual-violence-prevention-response-office/get-involved/16-days-activism
 -against-gender-based-violence] at\nthe University of Waterloo.\n\nOpenin
 g Ceremony: FRIDAY\, NOVEMBER 10 AT 10:00 AM\n\nFor the Opening Ceremony\
 , we are requesting volunteers to read the\nnames — please contact Soro
 uja Moll. \n\nBoth ceremonies will take place at the Ceremonial Fire Grou
 nds and the\nbridge between Environment 3 and United College\, and will be
  followed\nby a catered Creative Reflection and Soup Lunch hosted by the\n
 Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC) with support\nfr
 om the Department of Communication Arts.\n\nWorking with Shatitsirótha' W
 aterloo Indigenous Student Centre\n(WISC)\, the Office of Indigenous Relat
 ions (ORI)\, the Sexual Violence\nPrevention Response Office (SVPRO)\, and
  16 Days of Activism Against\nGender-Based Violence\, Dr. Sorouja Moll ini
 tiated Bridge in 2015 to\ncreate a space for all University community memb
 ers to learn about the\ncrisis as they reflect upon their responsibilities
  and share in\nspeaking the names of the lives taken to honour and remembe
 r as the\nred fabric is tied to the bridge between Environment 3 and Unite
 d\nCollege.\n\nThe gesture to name\, remember\, and honour the 5000+ missi
 ng and\nmurdered Indigenous Women\, Girls\, and Two Spirit People across t
 he\nmany Nations in Canada is an active engagement in learning about the\n
 depth of the crisis in the Canada while resisting and (en)countering\nthe 
 existing silence that continues to shroud it.\n\nOriginally installed in M
 ontreal in 2009\, as The Writing Names\nProject\, Moll's research-creation
  initiative is a counter memorial and\nis part of a meaningful and sustain
 ed collaborative intercultural\npraxis between Indigenous and non-Indigeno
 us communities.\n\nAll are invited to stay for a Soup Lunch\n[https://uwa
 terloo.ca/united-college/soup-and-bannock-days] hosted by\nthe Shatitsir
 ótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC) and\nsupported by the Dep
 artment of Communication Arts after the Opening\nand Closing Ceremonies fr
 om 12:30 to 1:30 PM. Al McDonald is\nreturning as the Ceremonial Fire Ke
 eper. \n\nWorking with Shatitsirótha' Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre
 \n(WISC)\, the Office of Indigenous Relations (ORI)\, the Sexual Violence\
 nPrevention Response Office (SVPRO)\, and 16 Days of Activism Against\nGen
 der-Based Violence\, Dr. Sorouja Moll initiated _Bridge_ in\n2015 to c
 reate a space for all University community members to learn\nabout the cri
 sis as they reflect upon their responsibilities and share\nin speaking the
  names of the lives taken to honour and remember as the\nred fabric is tie
 d to the bridge between Environment 3 and United\nCollege.\n\nThe gesture 
 to name\, remember\, and honour the 5000+ missing and\nmurdered Indigenous
  Women\, Girls\, and Two Spirit People across the\nmany Nations in Canada 
 is an active engagement in learning about the\ndepth of the crisis in the 
 Canada while resisting and (en)countering\nthe existing silence that conti
 nues to shroud it. Originally installed\nin Montreal in 2009\, as _The Wr
 iting Names Project_\, Moll's\nresearch-creation initiative is a counter m
 emorial and is part of a\nmeaningful and sustained collaborative intercult
 ural praxis between\nIndigenous and non-Indigenous communities. \n\nWatch
  the_ Bridge: Honouring the Lives of Missing and Murdered\nIndigenous Wom
 en\, Girls\, and Two Spirit People 2019 _video_._\n[https://youtu.be/Zu2t
 6LifQl0]
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