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You're invited to participate in <i>Bridge: Honouring the Lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People</i><span style="font-weight: bolder;"><i>,
</i></span>an annual installation for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence at the University of Waterloo. The closing ceremony is taking place this
<span style="font-weight: bolder;">Thursday, November 7 at 10:00 AM </span>at the Ceremonial Fire Grounds and the bridge between Environment 3 and United College.</div>
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All are invited to stay for a Soup Lunch hosted by the Shatitsirótha' <u><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/united-college/waterloo-indigenous-student-centre-shatitsirotha" id="OWAffe3b433-72b9-57c2-276a-5c979b8d815a" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;">Waterloo
Indigenous Student Centre</a></u> (WISC) after the ceremony from 12:30 to 2:00 PM. Al McDonald is returning as the Ceremonial Fire Keeper. </div>
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The gesture to name, remember, and honour the 5000+ missing and murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People across the many Nations in Canada is an active engagement in learning about the depth of the crisis in the Canada while resisting and (en)countering
the existing silence that continues to shroud it. Originally installed in Montreal in 2009, as
<i>The Writing Names Project</i>, Sorouja Moll's research-creation initiative is a counter memorial and is part of a meaningful and sustained collaborative intercultural praxis between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. </div>
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