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Walking With Our Sisters Commemorative Exhibit has now closed at Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre

April 11th – 25th, 2015

Whitehorse, YK

Contact: mary.bradshaw@yac.ca or krista@kdcc.ca

You can join our WWOS Whitehorse Facebook Page to see how wonderful the exhibit was!

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IN THE NEWS: Walking With Our Sisters Whitehorse featured in the media

Yukon Arts Centre Blog: Artwork Wednesday – Walking With Our Sisters

CBC Yukon: Yukon First Nations hope display can bring healing

Yukon News: Exhibit commemorates missing and murdered aboriginal women

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Goodbye and safe travels Walking With Our Sisters! Gunalchish, Masi Cho, Cui Miigwitch, Thank you.

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The WWOS Commemorative Exhibit has now closed at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre and we would like to thank everyone who participated in the process of installing and de-installing as well as all of the people who came out to events and to the Walking With Our Sisters Exhibit.

Below are some of the images from our Facebook Page showing what a wonderful Exhibit it was.

Wishing safe travels to our two community members, Miranda and Alex who will deliver the vamps to the next location, Red Deer.

Gunalchish, Masi Cho, Cui Miigwitch, Thank you.

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Some of our team seen here modelling the great Walking With Our Sisters t-shirts that arrived in time for the Exhibit.

Check out these photos of our beautiful Yukon Blanket!

The Blanket will stay in the Yukon while the other blankets were generously donated by Yukon Communities to Walking With Our Sisters. Thank you to the Whitehorse Sewing Group, community sewers and all participants for your incredible work.

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We are into our first week of Walking With Our Sisters Whitehorse and will be sharing our journey here!

Adorn the spot you call home with a beautiful button or bead on our Yukon Blanket!

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Wood floor scattered with pieces of dried sage

This week many volunteers came out to help install the Walking With Our Sisters Whitehorse Commemorative Exhibit. Thank you to all who gave of their time. Below our images from our Facebook Page that show the process of the installation.

Auditorium with a few people walking on a floor covered entirely with red cloth
Older woman walking through a doorway carrying a rock2 people standing in a circular construct with a plastic sheet and rocks being placed inside
Floor with red cloth with paths of beaded and decorated moccasin tops laid out for many metres, people working on the paths Younger woman and older woman in patterned skirts kneeling on fabric with box in front of them Floor with red cloth with paths of beaded and decorated moccasin tops laid out for many metres, 3 people kneeling working on the paths

Large blankets decorated with Indigenous representations of animals hang in hall.

The Moiety blankets are now hung in the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre and ready for the April 11th opening of Walking With Our Sisters Whitehorse.

Preparing the button blankets to hang for Walking With Our Sisters.

Women stand over tables with red and black blankets sewing final touches

Our committee members laying out the moiety blankets in the exhibit space. The final installation will look amazing!

Walking With Our Sisters Whitehorse opens Saturday April 11th!

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photograph of young Indigenous woman with beaded vamps on the table around her imageFrom our WWOS Sewing Circle Facebook Group. Beautiful Slipper tops that came from Old Crow today some in dedication for Brandie.

WWOS Whitehorse Sewing Group meets Thursdays and Saturdays. You can find out more information on our W.W.O.S Sewing Circle Facebook Group.

 

The heads of 4 women smiling at the camera while in a vehicle piled to ceiling with boxesKathy, Laura, Gerri & Nola are leaving Yellowknife now. Driving the WWOS bundle to Whitehorse.

From the CBC Yukon:

“A community conversation, to learn more about a memorial project for missing & murdered Aboriginal women in Canada is set for tonight. Sandi speaks with organizers Krista Reid & Mary Bradshaw.”

A moving interview about how important this project is for so many communities dealing with Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women they have lost. This project hits close to home for many people.

2 women, one younger and an elder speaking with each other Image from our Facebook Page from our last Community Conversation on January 14, 2015

teenaged girl at library table sewingImage from our Facebook Page from our 6th Sewing Circle on February 12, 2015