Orange Shirt Day Community Craft + Story Time Event

Date | Monday, September 29th
Time | 11am – 1pm
Place | The City Centre (#2164, 901 64th Avenue NE)
Craft | Orange T-Shirts window display
All ages are welcome to attend.

Joining us will be local children’s author, scholar, and storyteller Henri Giroux, a Woodland Cree member of the Driftpile Cree Nation. Henri will be sharing stories as well as teaching some Cree words.

The community will come together to create a collection of orange t-shirt crafts, which will be displayed in the window of The City Centre, as a show of our support for the Indigenous community and survivors of the Residential School System. The display will be shown next to Kristy North Peigan’s mural KSIISTSIKOM, and across from the statue of Deerfoot.

All are welcome to attend. Please wear an orange shirt on this day to show your support for the cause.

Special Craft + Story Time Session

Henri Giroux will also be joining us as a guest reader for Craft + Story Time on Friday, September 26th at 11am. She will be reading her book Sharing The Land We Call Home and joining in an age-appropriate craft.

Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation was started by Phyllis Webstad and the Orange Shirt Society as a way to remember the injustices of Canada’s Residential School System. Officially recognized as a national holiday in 2023, the day is one of community reflection.