Join us at Treaty Space Gallery on Tuesday, November 19 from 12pm–4pm for a paper-making workshop taught by Lucie Chan, NSCAD Associate Professor of Drawing. We will be learning how to make paper from recycled material and plant matter. All materials will be provided; additional plants and natural dyes are welcome!
The paper will be utilized to create a journal that addresses the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 92nd Call to Action. The journal will travel across Mi’kma’ki helping to implement policy and process change within local businesses. Over the months of 2025, individuals will contribute stories of truth, compassion, hope, awareness and education to enable others to strengthen their paths towards reconciliation.
Jude Gerrard (NSCAD Ombudsperson) from Millbrook First Nation invites us to consider the following:
"When we look at what is ‘just,’ it’s about having Indigenous and non-Indigenous people walk that path to reconciliation. I struggle with the word ‘reconciliation’ itself...By definition, what that means is there was a good relationship, and something broke that, and we had to mend it. If the relationship was never good in the first place, is it really reconciliation? Conciliation, maybe.”
