A series of Clarington reconciliation events will give residents opportunities to learn, reflect and gather ahead of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on September 30.
The schedule includes an orange-ribbon reflection space, film screenings and an online author visit, plus activities in Oshawa and at Durham College.
Reflection space and library programs
An orange-ribbon reflection space is open outside Courtice Community Complex through October 15. Residents can tie a ribbon to honour residential-school Survivors and remember children who did not return home.
Clarington libraries are screening Siksikakowan the Blackfoot Man in Courtice on September 25 and Bowmanville on September 28. Author Monique Gray Smith will join an online event September 28 from 7 to 8 p.m. Registration is required.
September 30 activities across Durham
Durham College will hold its second annual Orange Shirt Day Mini Powwow from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Naanaagide endamowin courtyard, with drumming, dancing and storytelling.
The Oshawa Museum will offer tours from noon to 4 p.m. An Indigenous Drum Circle is scheduled from 4 to 6 p.m. at 115 Grassmere Avenue in Oshawa.
Clarington says September 30 honours Survivors and intergenerational Survivors and remembers children who never returned home. The area is the traditional and treaty territory of the Williams Treaties First Nations.
Times, registration and changes for the Clarington reconciliation events are in the municipal notice.
