Sisters in Spirit: Poetry and Short Film Screening

📽️✨ Join us for a special evening of poetry and film! ✨📽️The Sexual Assault Centre Kingston and the Kingston Native Centre and Language Nest are hosting a free poetry reading and film screening event featuring:

🎬 "The Red Dress" (1978) - Renowned Métis author and screenwriter Maria Campbell explores themes of cultural identity, sexual assault and the familial impact of colonialism in The Red Dress, echoing the themes of her seminal memoir, Halfbreed.

Kelly is a Métis man without treaty or hunting rights, struggling to sustain his traditional life. His daughter Theresa longs for a red dress from France that she believes will give her power and strength, as the bear claw once did for her great-grandfather Muskwa. When Theresa escapes an assault and Kelly turns his back on his daughter, he realizes that he must reconnect with his culture in order to make things right. Today, the red dress is a powerful symbol recognizing over 1000 missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada.

🎬 "This River" (2016) - This short documentary offers an Indigenous perspective on the devastating experience of searching for a loved one who has disappeared. Volunteer activist Kyle Kematch and award-winning writer Katherena Vermette have both survived this heartbreak and share their histories with each other and the audience. While their stories are different, they both exemplify the beauty, grace, resilience, and activism born out of the need to do something.

🎬 "Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again" (2021) - Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again shares the powerful story of Mary Two-Axe Earley, who fought for more than two decades to challenge sex discrimination against First Nations women embedded in Canada’s Indian Act and became a key figure in Canada’s women’s rights movement.

📅 Date: October 4th

🕕 Time: 6:00pm

📍 Location: The Screening Room, Kingston

This event is held in honour of our missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and 2Spirit siblings. Come and be a part of this powerful tribute.