Winter Eco Cafes at the Cove

we are in the planning stages so contact us with your ideas

Community Memorial

Micro Gallery

for

Murdered and Missing

Indigenous Women, Children, and Two Spirit

Join Us! Memorialized in Art

Local memorial for Missing, Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit

BTC has joined The Canadian Library (TCL) Project https://www.thecanadianlibrary.ca/ to honour and bring attention to Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women, Girls and TwoSpirit (MMIWG2S).

Our first micro gallery installation was at the Cove Inn in Westport. The second installation was in the Newboro library. Both these installations have been brought together with newly covered books, in the Portland Library.

This national project, launched in 2021, consists of communities creating an art installation together as a memorial to the 8000 murdered and missing Indigenous women, girls and 2S. The TCL project supports the building of micro galleries of books bound in Indigenous-designed textiles, with the names of those lost in gold on the spines of the bound books. Some books will remain nameless to represent those who may never have a chance to tell their story. The project, guided by Indigenous elders, reflects our shared commitment as Canadians to teach the truth about our history and move towards healing. The names that will be placed on the books have been shared by elders and families with the desire to have the stories told and the lives honoured. Our micro galleries will be displayed publicly and locally until all the micro galleries come together in a prominent place for permanent exhibition.

We invite you to sponsor the purchase of fabric, at $30/m

We invite you to host a bookbinding event and or a microgallery in your public place to honour and raise concern for those missing or murdered. We can provide posters that support the exhibition.

Please contact us to sponsor, register or host at bettertogethercircle@gmail.com

our sincere thanks to all who contribute

Better Together Circle acknowledges that we are on the land that has been inhabited by Indigenous Peoples from the beginning. As settlers, we're grateful for the opportunity to meet, work and play here, and we thank all the generations of people stretching back in time who have taken care of this land. In particular, we gratefully acknowledge the Algonquin (Omàmìwininìwag) Anishnaabeg whose unceded territory this is. BTC is dedicated to taking action towards reconciliation and a harmonious relationship with the land.

"What we do to the land, we do to ourselves." Chief Seattle.