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Call for Readers for a Community Reading of the Truth and Renconciliation Commission's Report (TRC Report) -
March 24, 2017
You are invited to take part in a community reading of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Report on March 24, 2017. The reading will be facilitated by local resident claude wittman and Adam Herst. You can find below more information on the reading and this project below.
Background: In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada published a long report on the residential schools that children of Indigenous ancestry were forced to attend in the beginning of the 20th century and sometimes even until the 1990s. The schools were meant to westernize the mind and body of the children and they were often extremely traumatic while politically justified. The Commission interviewed survivors of these schools, wrote their history and also composed a series of 94 recommendations for us so that we start to work towards an equal relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples.
Our Action: City Councillor Ana Bailao, together with facilitators claude wittmann and Adam Herst, are calling for 18 community members who would like to join us to read from the TRC report. We will read out loud, each for about 10 minutes and the readings will be live-streamed on an Internet radio and recorded for later playback. We will not worry about mistakes. We will even welcome them as they will be signatures of our presence with the text. Our focus will be to learn and feel what happened in the past, nothing else. Everybody is invited.
To sign up to read please RSVP.
Time: 11:00 - 2:00
Venue: Ana Bailao Community Office
Location: 1240 Bloor St West Toronto, ON
For information contact: 2894.claude@gmail.com
Categories: Native Peoples
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