Walking With Our Sisters art exhibit coming to Parry Sound

Walking With Our Sisters is a travelling art installation that honours Canada's missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls. In Canada, it is estimated that more than 600 Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or have been murdered in the last 20 years. In response to this issue, 1,725 pairs of moccasin tops (vamps) have been created by 1,372 people in honour and memory of Indigenous women and girls who have gone missing or been murdered.

From January 10 – 26 the art installation will be displayed at the West Parry Sound District Museum (also known as the Tower Hill Museum).  This is the first of only three Ontario stops in 2014. The exhibit will be open Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Thursdays from 1 – 7 p.m.

For students, staff, faculty and alumni on Nipissing’s Muskoka campus, a bus trip to the exhibit has been arranged for Wednesday, January 15, leaving at 11:30 a.m. and returning at 4 p.m. Funding for this transportation was generously provided by the Nipissing University Alumni Board.