Activities for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
On this page, you will find a list of a few public events and initiatives organized to actively participate in commemorating the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Many other activities can be found online and organized by municipalities, non-Indigenous and Indigenous organisms from your area.
2023 NDTR Week of Commemoration - Blanket Workshop with Dr. Patricia Makokis
Thursday, September 21, 2023 | 10 am – 2 am (MT)
Open to public: Yes
Language: English
Building ally relationships between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People within our community. Creating a safe space for conversation, sharing and learning.
Location: Bonnyville, Alberta
Register by email to: LakelandTruthandReconciliation@gmail.com
Shawish Market: Healing Intergenerational Trauma- A Father Daughter Story told by Madelaine McCallum
Monday, September 25, 2023 | 12:00 pm (ET)
Open to public: Yes
Language: English
In this workshop, Madelaine McCallum tells about the destructive impact on families that can result from a community's loss of traditional values and roles. It explores the struggles between father and daughter as they search for a healthy relationship. Join Madelaine on a journey of acceptance, forgiveness and love that started over thirty years ago. She shares her complex, compelling and heartfelt ongoing story of how a return to traditional cultural teachings offers hope for restoring healing and balance in broken families.
Location: Virtual
Register for Shawish Market: Healing Intergenereational Trauma
Four Directions Community Health Center Presents Truth and Reconciliation Week
September 25 - 29, 2023
Open to public: Yes
Language: English and Cree (Prayers)
Increase awareness and commemorate the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (September 30) and / or the history and legacy of Residential Schools; and/or honour children who did not return home, Residential Schools Survivors, their families and communities
Star Quilt installation – A star quilt will be commissioned to honour the children who did not return home, the survivors and their families. A plaque will be made along with the star quilt and installed in the reception area of Four Directions. A small ceremony will commemorate this installation.
Mini Round Dance (#2 of 4) – a mini round dance will honour the children who did not return home, the survivors and their families and the community. This mini round dance will be the second in a traditional commitment of four.
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan
Register for the Truth and Reconciliation Week Presented by Four Directions Community Health Center
Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) – 2023 Commemoration of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
September 25 - 29, 2023
Open to public: Yes
Language: English for live sessions; post event recordings will have French captioning added
On the ongoing the path to Reconciliation, the RAIC will commemorate the 2023 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation through a two-part webinar series of events during the week of September 25-29, 2023. Webinars take place on September 26 and September 27, 2023. These open access webinar sessions are created in partnership with the RAIC’s Indigenous education provider NVision.
Sessions are free and pre-registration is required. Please feel free to share among your colleagues and other networks.
Location: Virtual
Register for Day 1 “History and Context”
Register for Day 2 “Relationships with the Land through Architecture and Design”
Otinichick: Taken
Friday, September 29, 2023 | 11 am to 3 pm (ET)
Open to public: Yes
Language: English
Location: Wabano Health Centre, Ottawa, Ontario
Emerges as an innovative collaboration of Sixties Scoop Network, Truth and Reconciliation Committee of the Métis Nation of Alberta, Île à la Crosse Boarding School in Saskatchewan and Canadian portrait artist Lynn Melbourne, whose work captures the spirit of the children who are survivors of the legacy of forced removal of Indigenous children from their families and the persisting harms of foster.
Register for Join us for Otinichick: Taken
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Ceremony – Drumheller
Friday, September 30, 2023 | 11 am -12:30 pm followed by a feast
Open to public: Yes
Language: English, Blackfoot and Cree
A National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Ceremony will take place. There will be guest speakers, performers, prayer, smudging and a feast. Join us and learn more about the Indigenous history and culture.
Location: Drumheller, Alberta
Register for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Ceremony – Drumheller
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