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Title:	REDress Project Installation & Events
Description:	The REDress Project is an installation by artist Jaime Black that gathers and displays red dresses to mark the absence of over 600 missing and murdered Aboriginal women across Canada. IWGS is proud to partner with Jaime on the campus-wide installation of the REDress Project will take place during International Women's Week, from March 7-12, 2011. Along with the installation of over 100 dresses in 9 locations across the campus, we will be coordinating tours of the installation, providing educational materials, supporting a movie screening, as well as hosting a panel of speakers. It is our intention to provide an environment for students, staff, faculty and the general public to learn through engagement with the art, and to provide opportunities for conversation about the serious impact of this gendered and racialized violence on all of the peoples of Canada. Join us for a week of FREE events open to all during the installation! REDress Installation Tours- All tours start at escalators, 1st floor Centennial Hall • March 7: 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm • March 8 - 7 pm • March 9 - 10 am and 4 pm • March 10 - 12:30 and 4 pm • March 11 - 12:30 and 5:30 pm • March 12 - 2:30 pm Tuesday March 8 - 'Cinema Politica' screening of the film Finding Dawn at 7:30 pm in Eckhardt-Grammate Hall , 3rd floor, UW campus (free childcare, snacks and bus tickets available). The discussion after the film will be hosted by Lisa Michell - advocate, activist and chairperson of the Women's Memorial March of MB. IWGS, along with Ka Ni Kanichihk's Aboriginal Women Reclaiming Our Power program (supported by Status of Women and Heritage Canada), are honoured to support the UWSA, UWSA Womyn's Centre and Gallery 1C03 in the screening of this important film. There will be guides on hand at all UW entrances to help folks find the movie screening location. Wednesday March 9th - Discussion Panel with REDress artist Jaime Black, filmmaker & activist Tina Keeper, and Lisa Forbes, volunteer for Amnesty International and member of the Stop Violence Against Aboriginal Women Action Group 12:30 pm in Convocation Hall - 2nd floor of Wesley Hall (the Castle) at 515 Portage Ave. Accessible venue through the Bryce Hall skywalk. For more information about REDress events please contact Kim Hunter at iwgs@uwinnipeg.ca or 204.786.9921.
Sponsor:	Institute for Women's and Gender Studies
When:	March 7 - March 12, 2011, Daily, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Where:	Campus Wide Installation 515 Portage Ave Winnipeg, MB Canada Map
Contact:	Kim Hunter iwgs@uwinnipeg.ca 204.786.9921 http://www.iwgs.ca
Category:	Other
Audience:	For Alumni, For Community and Public, For Faculty and Staff, For Students

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