6:00pm Service, 6:30pm Light Supper & 7:00pm Lecture
Join us for a panel discussion on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Two-Spirit people, and Girls, and how it is connected to violence against creation. Our panel will also discuss healing from trauma, and how ceremonial connection with the waters and lands guides community based resilience.
Our panelists include:
Audrey Huntley is a paralegal, storyteller, filmmaker, author and co-founder of Toronto-based organization No More Silence—a network that supports activists, researchers and communities working to stop the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women in Canada. No More Silence is building a community-led database documenting and honouring missing and murdered Indigenous women, Two-Spirit people, and Trans people in Ontario.
Monica Sehovic Bowen Forrester is the manager of Maggie’s Indigenous Sex Worker Outreach and Drum Group. She is a Two-Spirit Transwoman and has been on the frontlines of countless struggles for the rights of Sex Workers, Trans people, and Indigenous communities. Monica has advocated for inquiries, vigils, and funerals for missing and murdered Indigenous community members in the city of Toronto.
Rev. Evan Smith is an Anishnaabe Two-Spirit person, United Church minister, grandmother, Niigaani-gichigami co-founder, and works at Toronto Urban Native Ministry and the Toronto Birth Centre. Evan has worked with the Two-Spirit community, 60’s Scoop Survivors, and many other communities around the intersection of cultural resilience, healing, and ceremony.
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