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a group of kids from the child care center on campus take part in Orange shirt day

Camosun marks Orange Shirt Day

AV精品 is hosting two Orange Shirt Day events with the theme of hearts and hands inspired by a design from Kwakwaka鈥檞akw/Salish artist Carey Newman.

OSD Sept 29 from 1-3pm

The events are taking place on Sept. 29 since Sept. 30 is the first-ever National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

鈥淲e open our hearts to receive truth. We use our hands to work toward reconciliation,鈥 explains Ey膿蕯 Sq岷檒ewen: the Centre for Indigenous Education & Community Connections Director Janice Simcoe Janice Simcoe. 鈥淭he recent, and forthcoming, news about the children left behind at former residential schools heightens our shared need to do both.鈥

Orange Shirt Day events are taking place in Na鈥檛sa鈥檓aht at the Lansdowne campus and on the social stairs at the Alex & Jo Campbell Centre for Health and Wellness at the Interurban campus.

The hands theme at Interurban will talk about how we can participate in the work that must be done if we are to ever achieve reconciliation in the educational setting and beyond.

The hearts theme at Lansdowne will reflect on what we have learned about the residential school experience and how that impacts our work and lives.

The college will also offer employees and students the opportunity to participate in an Orange Shirt Day baskets of love initiative. The college will gather and share items for 16 love baskets that will be distributed on Sept. 30 to Indian Residential School survivors who share their knowledge, teachings, and care with the college. The college collected items such as candles, preserves, soaps, Indigenous medicine, canned fish, poems and cards with messages of gratitude.

Contact information

Rodney Porter

Executive Director, Communications and Marketing

AV精品

250-889-7494

porterr@camosun.ca