This note is to advise you about an upcoming Kamloops event to educate
and raise awareness in our community about the over 600 missing and
murdered Aboriginal women in Canada.

What is it?
The Kamloops REDress Project

When is it?
October 4-7, 2011

Where is it?
Thompson Rivers University (five sites), the T'kemlups Indian Band, the Interior Indian Friendship Society, and the Kamloops Art Gallery.

Here is a link to download a PDF of the REDress poster.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7932132/redress_Events_v3%20smaller%20copy.pdf

Along with the installation of approximately 70 red dresses, the REDress Project is coordinating free events in conjunction with the project including daily tours of the installation, educational materials, community dinner, candlelight vigil, two movie screenings, a panel of speakers and an artist talk with Jaime Black.

The project is designed to provide an environment for students, staff, faculty and the general public to learn through engagement with art, and to provide opportunities for conversation about the serious impact of this gendered and racialized violence on Aboriginal women in Canada. Faculty, students and the general public are encouraged to wear a red dress in support of the event at any time during October 4-7.

REDress Project EVENTS: all events are free and open to the public.

Anyone wishing to donate a red dress can do so at the CURA office on the TRU campus, 3rd floor of the Campus Activity Centre, the T’kemlups Indian Band at 200-355 Yellowhead Highway,or the Interior Indian Friendship Society 125 Palm Street in Kamloops.

Installation tours – all tours with the artist start on the front steps of the Brown Family House of Learning on the TRU campus

October 4, 5,6,7 tours begin at 11 AM and 3 PM
October 4 – Community dinner at T’Kemlups Indian Band – Sk’lep School Gymnasium – 5:30 PM Candlelight vigil to follow
October 5 – Film screening of “Building a Highway of Hope” and talk with Director Jessica Yee - TRU House 5
October 6- Film screening of “Finding Dawn” and guest panel, TRU Irving Barber Centre – 6:30 PM
October 7 – Artist talk by Jaime Black, TRU Art Gallery in the Old Main Building, - 12:00 PM

The TRU School of Social Work and Human Service is proud to be supported and joined in this project by:

The BC Native Women's Association
T'Kemlups Indian Band
The Interior Indian Friendship Society
TRU Aboriginal Education, The CURA Project, The TRU Theatre Dept and
TRU Arts Dept
The Kamloops Sexual Assault and Counselling Society
The Secwepemc Cultural Education Society
The Kamloops Art Gallery