Decolonize YQR: A Deeper Look into The REDress Project & MMIWG with Jaime Black
Reconciliation Regina has partnered with the Regina Public Library to host the Decolonize YQR, a speaker workshop series will take participants through a journey of self-reflection and will explore the history and impacts of colonization and ways we can decolonize our hearts, minds, and community.
Join us on October 24th at 7pm as Jaime discusses her infamous REDress Project and how current realities motivated her to create this awareness piece that provokes action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit (MMIWG2S).
The programming will be offered remotely through Zoom.
There is no cost to participate.
Register here: Decolonize YQR: The REDress Project & MMIWG2S with Jaime Black | Reconciliation Regina
For more information visit: https://reconciliationregina.com/decolonize-yqr/
Biography:
Jaime Black-Morsette is a Red River Métis artist and activist living and working on their home territory near the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers.
Founder of The REDress project in 2009, Black-Morsette has been using their art practice as a way to gather community and create action and change around the epidemic of violence against Indigenous women and girls across Turtle Island and beyond for over 13 years. Black-Morsette’s interdisciplinary art practice includes immersive film and video, installation art, photography, and performance art practices to explore themes of memory, identity, place and resistance.
