MMIWG2S+ AWARENESS EVENT
Please join us in wearing red and attending the community event for Red Dress Day 2025.
The event will include speakers, a walk, community education, and more from 1:00 – 4:00pm. Everyone is invited to learn about, remember, and honour Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit+ people and their families.
Meet at the Florence Filberg Centre (411 Anderton Avenue, Courtenay) at 1:00pm for the opening ceremony, followed by the start of the walk.
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS AT CVAG
The MMIWG2S+ awareness walk will lead attendees through Downtown Courtenay and past the Comox Valley Art Gallery, where there will be two special, outward-facing presentations visible all day to passersby.
Bury Me in Red, a video created by Youth Media Project participant Brandon Gane in 2020, will be presented on the LED screen in CVAG’s Window + Plaza Media Gallery. There will be seats on the CVAG Plaza for viewers to sit and watch.
Stolen Sister | The Métis — created by Gwen Monnet in 2023 and previously presented at CVAG as part of a larger, ongoing project — will also be on display in CVAG’s front entrance window.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Comox Valley Art Gallery is grateful to operate on the Unceded Traditional Territory of the K’ómoks Nation.
This event is organized by the Indigenous Women’s Sharing Society in partnership with K’ómoks First Nation, Comox Valley Transition Society, Foundry Comox Valley, Comox Valley MIKI’SIW Métis Association, Wachiay Friendship Centre, UIWONA, and CVAG.
RESOURCES
Amnesty International – Red Dress Day
National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center
Native Women’s Association of Canada