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Acadia University is pleased to host community and campus members at the annual Sisters in Spirit (SIS) Vigil on October 6th to celebrate, honour, and remember Aboriginal women and girls, as well support families who have been tragically touched by the loss of loved ones to violence.
At the request of local chiefs, this year's vigil will also include missing Aboriginal men, boys, and families.
On October 6th, Acadia University will welcome campus and community members to a special evening event.
The event starts informally at Welkaqnik, the campus Aboriginal Gathering Space at 52 University Avenue at Acadia University in Wolfville, from 5 – 6 pm, for a meet and greet.
Around 6 pm the community is invited to participate in a Walk of Remembrance to the KCIC.
A special screening will be shown in KCIC Auditorium on campus around 6:15 pm, followed by the official start of the evening at 7 pm Auditorium until approximately 8:30 pm.
To raise awareness, organizers are collecting like-new and new shoes, as well as girls’ and teens dresses, to create an art installation in the K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre, located on campus. This installation will represent more than 1182 missing aboriginal women and girls, and untold number of missing men, boys, and families across Canada. The public is invited to drop off new or like-new shoes and girls’ new or like-new dresses at Welkaqnik, Aboriginal Gathering Space in the DeWolfe House located at 52 University Avenue, or to bring them directly to the KCIC on October 6th and place them within the exhibit in the foyer. After the vigil, the shoes will be donated to local shelters and the dresses will be sent to Inuit communities in Nunavut and Labrador.
A donation box will be at the event for anyone who wants to donate funds to the Lauretta Saunders Scholarship. Raising money for a scholarship fund in Loretta Saunders’ honour that will provide financial support to Indigenous women studying in Atlantic Canada. Loretta Saunders was Inuit. She was criminology student in Halifax, at SMU, studying incidents of murdered and missing aboriginal women in Canada for her honours thesis, which was near completion when she was murdered in February 2014.
902 585 1451
Acadia University is pleased to host community and campus members at the annual Sisters in Spirit (SIS) Vigil on October 6th to celebrate, honour, and remember Aboriginal women and girls, as well support families who have been tragically touched by the loss of loved ones to violence.
At the request of local chiefs, this year's vigil will also include missing Aboriginal men, boys, and families.
On October 6th, Acadia University will welcome campus and community members to a special evening event.
The event starts informally at Welkaqnik, the campus Aboriginal Gathering Space at 52 University Avenue at Acadia University in Wolfville, from 5 – 6 pm, for a meet and greet.
Around 6 pm the community is invited to participate in a Walk of Remembrance to the KCIC.
A special screening will be shown in KCIC Auditorium on campus around 6:15 pm, followed by the official start of the evening at 7 pm Auditorium until approximately 8:30 pm.
To raise awareness, organizers are collecting like-new and new shoes, as well as girls’ and teens dresses, to create an art installation in the K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre, located on campus. This installation will represent more than 1182 missing aboriginal women and girls, and untold number of missing men, boys, and families across Canada. The public is invited to drop off new or like-new shoes and girls’ new or like-new dresses at Welkaqnik, Aboriginal Gathering Space in the DeWolfe House located at 52 University Avenue, or to bring them directly to the KCIC on October 6th and place them within the exhibit in the foyer. After the vigil, the shoes will be donated to local shelters and the dresses will be sent to Inuit communities in Nunavut and Labrador.
A donation box will be at the event for anyone who wants to donate funds to the Lauretta Saunders Scholarship. Raising money for a scholarship fund in Loretta Saunders’ honour that will provide financial support to Indigenous women studying in Atlantic Canada. Loretta Saunders was Inuit. She was criminology student in Halifax, at SMU, studying incidents of murdered and missing aboriginal women in Canada for her honours thesis, which was near completion when she was murdered in February 2014.
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Pricing: Free
32 University Avenue
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
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902-585-5242
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