September 30th is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day
DABC will be closed on Monday, September 30th, to acknowledge the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. While September 30th has held this designation for years, this is only the second year it is being recognized as a statutory holiday in BC.
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation honours the children who never made it home from residential schools as well as the Survivors of those “schools,” and acknowledges both this terrible history as well as the ongoing impacts of residential schools and the challenges and injustices that Indigenous communities continue to face. It also encourages the celebration of Indigenous cultures.
It is based on Orange Shirt Day, which was founded by Phyllis Webstad, a Survivor of residential school. You can learn more about Phyllis and this movement here: https://orangeshirtday.org/phyllis-story/.
We encourage you to take this day to reflect, learn, and have conversations with people you know.
Vancouver Blog Miss604 has compiled a list of events that are happening for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation this weekend.
Here are the events on September 30th:
– Place des Arts: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
– Create and Connect: Truth and Reconciliation Day at MONOVA
– Noons Creek Hatchery Reconciliation Event in Port Moody
– Intergenerational March to commemorate Orange Shirt Day (UBC)
– Free Admission at the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre
– Walk for Truth and Reconciliation (Tsawwassen)
– Honouring Residential School Thrivers and Survivors – Stó:lō Nation
– Learning Opportunity: Downstream Where the Waters Mix Exhibition
– National Day of Truth and Reconciliation Teaching Pow Wow
