Photo of the 2023 Walk for Reconciliation along the Bow River/Calgary Alberta/Photo by Keith Driver
With celebrations taking place across the city of Calgary on National Indigenous People’s Day, June 21, hundreds will be gathering early in the morning for the fifteenth annual walk for reconciliation.
The Walk for Reconciliation is the first event taking place on National Indigenous People’s Day in Calgary as a time of reflection to remember the long road ahead for reconciliation.
Since the walk first started in 2009 as small gathering has grown to a gathering well over 500 by 2023.
Director of Creative Experience for the Confluence Historic Site and Parkland and Organizer for the Walk Lindsie Burns explains why it is important to remember and not gloss over difficult topics in history during a day cultural celebration.
As part of the fifteenth anniversary of the walk, a commemorative logo was commissioned to local Blackfoot Artists Kristy North Peigan.
Logo created by Kristy North Peigan/Photo courtesy of the Confluence Historic Site & Parkland
The new logo represents the journey the walk takes along the Bow River as it ends at the Confluence Historic Site and Parkland where the Bow and Elbow Rivers meet.
The orange child moccasins are in remembrance of the children who attended residential schools and still walk carry the pains of the school with those who have joined them in the journey of reconciliation.
The walk will start at 8 a.m. at the Harry Hays Building in Calgary on Friday June 21 for National Indigenous People’s Day with those gathered walking towards the Confluence for programing and a screening of “What is Reconciliation“.
All details about the Walk and the programing that follows can be found on the Confluence’s website.
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