{"id":88684,"date":"2023-10-16T16:15:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T20:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=88684"},"modified":"2023-10-16T17:20:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T21:20:16","slug":"exhibition-to-educate-brock-community-about-residential-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/10\/exhibition-to-educate-brock-community-about-residential-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition to educate Brock community about residential schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibition displayed at Brock University is teaching participants about Canada\u2019s residential school system while also promoting healing and encouraging acts of reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/legacyofhope.ca\/home\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legacy of Hope Foundation\u2019s<\/a> <em>Killing the Indian in the Child: Generations Lost<\/em> will be displayed in Brock\u2019s Rankin Family Pavilion from Monday, Oct. 16 to Wednesday, Nov. 1 and will remember the more than 150,000 Indigenous children forced to leave their families and attend residential schools, where various forms of abuse took place and many children did not survive.<\/p>\n<p>Legacy of Hope is an Indigenous-led charitable organization that works to promote healing and reconciliation in Canada. The organization\u2019s 30- by 15-foot walkthrough exhibition will showcase a timeline of the residential school system as well as the experiences of survivors and will be open for all members of the Brock community to explore.<\/p>\n<p>Though photography of the exhibition is prohibited, Cindy Biancaniello, Director of Brock\u2019s Hadiya\u02c0dag\u00e9nhahs First Nations, M\u00e9tis and Inuit Student Centre, said she hopes everyone who takes part will form visual memories of what took place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can read about residential schools on a piece of paper, but to have this physical walkabout will be profound,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>With the display in the Rankin Family Pavilion, Biancaniello said it presents a chance for all members of the Brock community to learn and share about the history of residential schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving this visual display in the centre of campus means that it\u2019s almost unavoidable and will really be impactful for everyone who walks through as well as those they share their experience with,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Any questions about the exhibit can be sent to Biancaniello at <a href=\"mailto:cbiancaniello@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cbiancaniello@brocku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibition displayed at Brock University is teaching participants about Canada\u2019s residential school system while also promoting healing and encouraging acts of reconciliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":88682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9794,7484,7,3319,6833,1],"tags":[8881,11986,11965],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88684"}],"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=88684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88688,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88684\/revisions\/88688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}