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Reconciliation in Solidarity Edmonton will honour the three-year anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s seventh and final national event and recommit to reconciliation in the city.
Arthur Bear Chief, who tells his moving story of his residential school experience in the novel My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell, will be among the feature speakers at the March 30 event to take place at Edmonton City Hall.
Bear Chief will be joined in a panel discussion by Charlene Bearhead, co-chair of the Downie-Wenjack Fund, and Steven Cooper, a lawyer from the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement.
The event will also feature the launch of the RISE monthly book club, an online forum to allow people to connect and learn from each other.
The second edition of RISE ZINE, a self-published magazine on reconciliation, will be available.
It marks the second anniversary of the creation of RISE, a community of people committed to reconciliation in Edmonton.
“The work of reconciliation is now in the hands of us as Canadians and Edmontonians,” said Miranda Jimmy, RISE co-founder.
Jimmy also references the words of Truth and Reconciliation Commission Chair Murray Sinclair, who is now a senator: “We have described for you a mountain. We have shown you the path to the top. We call upon you to do the climbing.”