A Place to Hang Your Stories - Funding Request Updated

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July 17, 2014

Winnipeg, MB,

To Whom it May Concern:

In February 2014, a call for paper bricks was made by Alberta Artist and Educator

Dawn Marie Marchand to create a simulated Indian Residential School (IRS) House.

Several individuals, including IRS students were interested in creating bricks,

community members in Winnipeg coordinated an event where Health Support Workers

were in attendance as these bricks were made in good faith with health safety in mind.

The installation was set up during the final Truth and Reconciliation Commission

(TRC) National event in Edmonton Alberta, March 2014 where it was well received

with thousands of people attending. The feedback was incredibly positive and hadgreat publicity, as it was then moved to CBC Radio at Edmonton Place after the TRC

event. Another request to have it viewed again, was at the International Works Festival

where it was a feature exhibit alongside Ken Armstrongs powerful photography on

Homelessness in Edmonton. It was the most visited exhibit with over 1,200 people

daily. There was a great deal of education and reconciliation that occurred with this

predominantly mainstream non-native event.

The results of the Residential Schools will require much effort and resources to restore

the original people of this land to wholeness and good relations with the rest of society.

We are grassroots community members who do not promote any specific politics,denomination nor any organized group as all people are equal. Our goal is to help

bring greater awareness, healing and reconciliation to generational IRS issues that

have rippled for decades.

Our funding request is looking to secure in the short term $7,000 - $6,000 to bring this

healing art installation to Winnipeg, Manitoba. In addition we are also seeking general

assistance and direction for approaching other foundations to partner with so we may

continue this healing work and take it to other communities throughout Turtle Island.

We look forward to the results of this request and hope you can assist us in whatever

capacity your organization can provide. Any volunteers wishing to help with installation

or during the week are requested to contact us as soon as possible.

In Peace and the Pursuit of Balance,

Dawn Marie MarchandArtist & Educator587.783.9723

Koona CochraneIndigenous Community Facilitator1.866.320.2763


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Opportunity to bring the installation to Winnipeg:

The installation is available to go anywhere that the people would like to see it and arewilling to help make it happen. These are some things needed in order to make it happen.

Requirements:1. An indoor venue that can house a 10 ft x 10 ft x 8.9 ft gazebo (Location secured:

Indigenous Family Centre 470 Selkirk Avenue)

2. An outdoor venue where we can leave your stones3. Stones (Planning with community groups to collect them TBD)4. Volunteers: for set up and dismantle of the installation; to stay with the installation

and assist visitors5. Mileage or Transportation Mileage preferred as the installation requires great

care to transport6. Accommodations and Meals7. Dawn Marie would need at least one day on site before the opening to make

repairs and prepare it for viewing

Sponsorship Sought:Travel (Bonnyville, Alta to Winnipeg return 2,600 km @ $0.45) $ 1,200Accommodations (11 nights @ $120) $ 1,320Meals (11 days breakfast $8, lunch $15, dinner $20) $ 473Volunteer Training & Honouraria (7 volunteers @ $100) $ 700Advertising and Printing $ 500Artist Fee (11 days @ $200) $ 2,200Incidentals $ 250Sub-Total $ 6,643

In-Kind Sponsorships received to date:Rental space $200 @ 12 days $ 2,400Event Planning & Coordination $150 @ 8 weeks $ 1,200Sub-Total $3,600Grand Total $10,243

Cheques can be made to:Indian Family Centrememo notice for IRS Stories

Charitable receipts will be made for donations received

Mailing AddressIndigenous Family Centre(new name not reflected in banking cheques must say Indian Family Centre)470 Selkirk AvenueWinnipeg, MBR2W 2M5


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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission made its 7th and final stop in

Edmonton on March 27 30, 2014. We invited any survivors, family ofsurvivors or people affected by Indian Residential Schools in Alberta tocontribute to this Wall. We asked for 3 x 9 inch drawings, paintings or anycreative expression of their experience to be included on a collagedcomponent of an Installation that was displayed at Edmonton City Hall fromMarch 26 April 2, 1014.

Artwork:ForJoanebyDawnMarieMarchand

UsedwithPermissionbyTomand

JoriHunter

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itah kkohtyek kitcimwina: A Place to Hang Your Stories

In fall 2013, Artist Dawn Marie Marchand was approached by a community

member who knew that the final Truth and Reconciliation Commission event was

going to Edmonton March 2014. Knowing the power of Walking With Our SistersExhibitwhich provided immense awareness to the issue of Murdered and Missing

Indigenous women, it also gave people a voice to be heard and often much needed

healing. She wondered if such a project could happen for Residential School

Survivors and their intergenerational descendants who are still affected even if

they did not attend themselves. This project was born from that original

conversation.

A public announcement for paper bricks was made, that would be visual

representations of stories from Indian Residential School or how it affected them

or their descendants. Art builds were held around Alberta which included

Edmonton, Calgary, St. Paul and others. Many more bricks were mailed from

across Canada. Notably Winnipeg held art builds where over 56 participants

contributed bricks to the art installation. These were collaged onto the canvas

walls of a gazebo to create a one room school house. Each brick represented a

story that for some were the first steps towards healing. The bricks were treated

in a way that honours each story and participant. They were all smudged and

wrapped in prints while they were being compiled. When they were being

installed they were smudged again and not allowed to touch the floor.

At the viewing, people were asked to hold a stone in their left hand and leave it

with use when they left. These stones will be laid into the walking paths of the

Healing Garden at Blue Quills First Nation College. It is a symbolic representation

of placing the hurts under our feet.

The installation was well received with 1000s of people attending. The feedback

was incredibly positive and received good publicity as it was then moved to CBC

Radio at Edmonton Place after the TRC event. It was then requested to be viewed

again in Edmonton at the International Works Festival where it was one of thefeature exhibits in the Big Tent with Ken Armstrongs powerful photography on

Homelessness in Edmonton. It was the most visited exhibit with over 1,200 people

daily. There was a great deal of reconciliation that occurred with this

predominantly mainstream non-native event.

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Recommendations:

The inner walls have ribbons from which new bricks can be added. If the

community would like to contribute new bricks they could have art builds before

or during the exhibit. This would be up to the community to decide. It would be a

good addition and these stay in the community, possibly as an ongoing display

opposed to storage as the community decides. It is also a good idea to have people

available to help explain the intergenerational effects of IRS and give supports to

those affected should this installation trigger emotions for them. If you are

interested in learning more on this installation please contact:

Artist Dawn Marie:[email protected]

Find us on Facebook: A Place to Hang your Stories a Group page

A Place to Hang Your Stories comes to Winnipeg

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Parrish, J. Truth and Reconciliation Commission set to begin:

http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/truth-and-reconciliation-commission-event-set-to-begin-

1.1747828

Jones, S. Truth and Reconciliation:http://globalnews.ca/video/1233433/truth-reconciliation

Hampshire, G. Circle of Courage:http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/#!/content/1.2588414

Narine, S. Art Part of the Healing Process of Residential Schools:

http://ca.ammsa.com/publications/alberta-sweetgrass/art-part-healing-process-residential-

schools

Edmonton Arts Council. Outline:

http://www.edmontonarts.ca/static_media/pdfs/files/eac_misc/placetohang.pdf

Commanda, K. Legacy of Living Together art Project Approaches Healing for IndigenousArtists.

http://thegatewayonline.ca/article/view/the_legacy_of_living_together_art_project_approah

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