Memorial March Art Walk
The Women's Memorial March will be an art walk in the Nature Reserve Park along the Coalbanks Trail for four weeks starting February 14, 2024 until March 18, 2024. Park at Helen Schuler Nature Centre parking lot.
We encourage everyone to visit the park and honour Missing and Murdered Women, Girls, Two-Spirit and LGBTQQIA people through an independent memorial walk at your leisure throughout the week.
In addition to the Art Walk there will be a Women’s Memorial March on February 14 in Downtown Lethbridge.
Memorial March on February 14
Family and community will meet on February 14, 12:00 pm at Stafford Drive and 4th Ave S (near Lethbridge City Hall) for the Women’s Memorial March.
Spread the word and join us (all genders welcome) to the Feb 14th march. We respectfully ask that you do not bring agency or group banners, flags, or leaflets as the march only carries signage remembering our sisters. Signs to honour womens’ lives are welcome. (We will have some placards available.)
Timeline:
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm: Meet in front of City Hall
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm: Prayer - remembering our sisters
12:20 pm - 1:00 pm: Walk
1:00 pm: Walk ends back at City Hall
"The first Women’s Memorial March was held in 1992 in response to the Murder of a woman on Powell Street in Vancouver. Out of this sense of hopelessness and anger came an annual march on Valentine’s Day to express compassion, community, and caring for all women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Unceded Coast Salish Territories."
"At present day, Indigenous women disproportionately continue to go missing or be murdered with minimal to no action to address these tragedies or the systemic nature of gendered violence, poverty, racism, or colonialism."
"This event is organized and led by women because women – especially Indigenous women – face physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual violence on a daily basis. The February 14th Women’s Memorial March is an opportunity to come together to grieve the loss of our beloved sisters, remember the women who are still missing, and to dedicate ourselves to justice."
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