UNDERSTANDING TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION - IIHTAOMOIPIYOTSIYO’PI AAWAHKAISINAAKSSIN: We Gather Together Through Art

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Art's Alive and Well in the Schools, Installation Wall

UNDERSTANDING TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION IIHTAOMOIPIYOTSIYO’PI AAWAHKAISINAAKSSIN: We Gather Together Through Art

Opening reception: Sunday, May 7 at 1 PM Reception sponsored by Pratt & Whitney 

Students from Tatsikiisaapo’p Middle School (Kainai Board of Education) worked collectively with students from Bob Edwards School (Calgary Board of Education) to explore, experience, and understand Truth and Reconciliation when expressed between two communities, two schools, and two diverse groups of students. Tatsikiisaapo’p Middle School students carefully guided students from Bob Edwards through this artistic and cultural journey to assist their respective peers with a deeper understanding of the true historical relationship between First Nations people and Canada and how this relationship has affected First Nations people in Canada through a Blackfoot youth’s perspective.

The students from both schools worked together with Arts Specialist/Teacher, Andrea T.J. Fox (KBE) and Learning Leader/ Teacher Danielle Badeev (CBE) as well as Project Consultants including Department of History graduate student Shaneen Fox and Human Rights Educator Brenda Johnston, to gain accurate and clear understandings of the historical issue they were enquiring about. From these shared circles, the students completed art works that reflected their knowledge and a new relationship founded on respect.

IIHTAOMOIPIYOTSIYO’PI AAWAHKAISINAAKSSIN is a collaboration between Tatsiikiisapo’p Middle School – Kainai Board of Education and Bob Edwards School – Calgary Board of Education in partnership with Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre, University of Calgary (October 2016 to June 2017).

Funding assistance for these exhibitions from the Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the City of Lethbridge.- See more at: http://www.saag.ca/art/exhibitions/0707-art's-alive-and-well-in-the-schools-and--iihtaomoipiyotsiyo%E2%80%99pi-aawahkaisinaakssin#sthash.Uyx23Jh6.dpuf