{"id":85190,"date":"2023-04-27T15:17:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T19:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=85190"},"modified":"2023-04-27T16:52:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T20:52:56","slug":"virtual-event-to-celebrate-contributions-of-local-indigenous-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/04\/virtual-event-to-celebrate-contributions-of-local-indigenous-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual event to celebrate contributions of local Indigenous women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An upcoming virtual event is aiming to honour and celebrate Indigenous women and the strength of their work.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Office of the Vice-Provost, Indigenous Engagement and Hadiya\u2019dag\u00e9nhahs First Nations, M\u00e9tis and Inuit Student Centre, the Red Women Rising event will take place online Thursday, May 4 from 5 to 7 p.m. and has been organized by Lyn Trudeau, Lecturer of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies and Sociology, along with partners throughout the University.<\/p>\n<p>During the two-hour event, participants will hear from Brock\u2019s Vice-Provost, Indigenous Engagement Robyn Bourgeois along with four guest speakers who will discuss their work locally.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_85191\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85191\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-85191\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Lyn-Trudeau-741x1050.jpg\" alt=\"Lyn Trudeau looks directly into the camera in a headshot against a dark background.\" width=\"250\" height=\"355\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-85191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Red Women Rising event was organized by Lyn Trudeau, Lecturer of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies and Sociology, along with partners throughout the University.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Speakers include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jennifer Dockstader \u2014 Executive Director of Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre<\/li>\n<li>Fallon Farinacci \u2014 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Survivor, Advocate and Speaker<\/li>\n<li>Patty Krawec \u2014 Author, Public Speaker and Podcaster<\/li>\n<li>Layla Staats \u2014 Indigenous filmmaker, speaker and activist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Trudeau said welcoming women to speak who are part of the local community was intentional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have many women in our communities that support, guide, stand up and protect our traditional knowledge and ways of being in the world,\u201d she said. \u201cWe wanted to invite Indigenous women from various backgrounds, various skill sets and abilities who contribute and give back to our communities in many meaningful ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event is open to the public and interested participants are asked to register through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/red-women-rising-tickets-615897123877\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An upcoming virtual event is aiming to honour and celebrate Indigenous women and the strength of their work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":85188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9794,7484,6833,1,38],"tags":[12622,4226,7547,12621,6056],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85190"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85217,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85190\/revisions\/85217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}