The Blanket Exercise

The Blanket Exercise

Date: Friday, May 24, 2013
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 pm Location: University of Lethbridge, 1st Choice Saving Centre, Room PE264

SACPA on Campus and KAIROS Lethbridge is hosting a public presentation of the “Blanket Exercise”- a teaching tool by KAIROS to raise awareness and understanding of the nation to nation relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. Julie Graham will be leading the exercise.

Julie Graham is the human rights Education and Campaigns Coordinator for KAIROS, the social justice organization of eleven national Canadian churches and church agencies, represented in Lethbridge by an energetic local chapter. The daughter of immigrants, she is from Coast Salish territory in BC and has Mennonite and United Church roots.

Graham is an educator and writer and has worked on right relations and Indigenous rights for the past 20 years. Currently her work focuses on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and what Indigenous rights mean for non-Indigenous Canadians:

Everyone welcome, free event, free parking

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