Thanks to community members in Pikwakanagan First Nation, Eganville, Killaloe, and Pembroke for joining the countdown to end sexual violence -- for contributing presence, conversation, creative ideas, and images to the July workshops from which the design will emerge for a monument to honour survivors of sexual assault.
Thanks to our team for facilitation, coordination, graphic design,
photography, translation support, and production: JoAnne Brooks, Anna
Camilleri, Tristan R. Whiston, Andy Trull, Megan Spencer, Roberta Della-Pica,
Karis Pard-Jones, Tomas Chin, Maureen MacMillan, Megan Cyr, Katie
Yealland, Alana McLeod, Bev Ritza, Tariq Sami, and Liane Alessi.
Special thanks to our community partners for supporting this
significant project through outreach and promotion, provision of space, and
cash or in-kind support: CRC (Community Resource Centre,
Killaloe), Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation Health
Centre, Killaloe, Haggarty, and Richards Township, EVA-Ending
Violence Against Women Renfrew County, Jumblies Theatre (Youth Intern Exchange Program), The Township
of Bonnechere Valley, and the Ontario Arts Council.
Funding for this work was provided by It's Never
Okay: Ontario's Action Plan to Stop Sexual Violence and Harassment."
The Countdown Public Art Project was
initiated by the The Women’s Sexual Assault Centre of Renfrew County, and
is being led in collaboration with arts partners Red Dress Productions and
OV-CAOS.
Photography by Maureen MacMillan.
Posts
