Flin Flon area residents are invited to be part of the 26th annual Women’s Memorial March on Friday. The Women’s Resource Center’s Colleen Arnold says the march is held to raise awareness and to end violence against women and girls and will include a new awareness project this year called the Red Dress Project that was introduced by a Metis artists Jamie Black about five years ago and the idea of hanging the red dresses is not the only important statement within the project. She says the process of collecting the dresses is just as important to make people think about the issue so they’ll be hanging red dresses down Main Street and also at Pioneer Square to represent all of the missing and murdered aboriginal women.
You’re invited to join the march starting at Pioneer Square at 4:30 Friday afternoon. They will go down to the Friendship Center for words from Mayor Cal Huntley, MLA Clarence Pettersen, a song by Ann Ross and a prayer by local Elder Margaret Head.
