5 May
10:00am - 4:00pm
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- Ages 15+
- $50 per participant
- All materials included (beading package)
Join us for our upcoming workshop focusing on MMIWG2S & MMIMB
This workshop is for all levels, no experience needed – Ages 15+
All materials needed for this workshop will be provided (beading package).
Sunday, May 5, 2024
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Join artist Chanelle Gamble as you learn how to bead your own Red Dress Earrings.
This workshop is to highlight the importance of Red Dress Day, and to bring awareness to communities about MMIWG2S & MMIMB.
We are honoured to have kehteyak Maria Linklater with us for this workshop, to share knowledge and open things in a good way.
Free parking and admission to the site, trails, and exhibits are included in the cost.
Coffee, tea, and water will be provided as refreshments.
For lunch, our restaurant with it’s brand new menu will be open 11 a.m. – 4 p.m..
*Thank you to CWB Financial Group for supporting our 2024 workshop series
Chanelle Gamble
Chanelle Gamble is a 23 year old Plains Cree woman, from Beardy’s and Okemasis Cree Nation. She is a full time Interpretive Guide and a Fancy Shawl Dancer here at Wanuskewin.
Chanelle aspires to be an Indigenous fashion designer, and to create her own Practice with medicine as an indigenous doctor one day.
As a dancer, her goal is to help revitalize Indigenous cultures, and reconnect Indigenous youth with their culture as well.
Red Dress Day
What is the meaning behind the Red Dress?
“The spirits of the missing or murdered women and girls stand with us here today, giving us courage, strength and clarity — leading us forward on the path to REclaim our sovereignty as Indigenous women.” Jaime Black, Metis artist.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit People (MMIWG2S) is a human rights crisis of gender-based and racialized violence in Canada.
Jaime Black began the REDress Project in 2010, where she had gathered and hung hundreds of empty, red dresses to represent the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada. Now the red dress is a national symbol to bring awareness to the human crisis issue. People are encouraged to hang a red dress outside their house on May 5th, so that passerbys may wonder why, and take it upon themselves to educate themselves about the issue.
You can view more information HERE
And these links below:
KAIROS CANADA – Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls- About the MMIWG InfoHub
https://www.kairoscanada.org/missing-murdered-indigenous-women-girls
National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
http://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/
The Native Women’s Association of Canada – MMIWG & Violence Prevention
https://www.nwac.ca/policy-areas/mmiwg/
The Native Women’s Association of Canada – What Their Stories Tell Us: Research findings from
the Sisters In Spirit initiative
https://www.nwac.ca/assets-knowledge-centre/2010_What_Their_Stories_Tell_Us_Research_Findings_SIS_Initiative-1.pdf
MMIW Calls to action
https://nwac.ca/assets-knowledge-centre/Web-MMIWG-calls-to-justice..new.pdf
