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RISE Blanket Exercise
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Starts: Tuesday, January 19
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Ends: Tuesday, January 19
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Are you eager to learn more about the Aboriginal experience in Canada and why we need reconciliation today? The Blanket Exercise is an interactive learning experience that teaches the Indigenous rights history we're rarely taught.
Join us on Tuesday, January 26th from 6-8 PM for this free, interactive workshop, organized by RISE - Reconciliation in Solidarity Edmonton, to help further your understanding of Aboriginal issues. Reserve your spot here; space is limited.
What is the Blanket Exercise?
The Blanket Exercise is an interactive learning experience that teaches the Indigenous rights history we're rarely taught. Developed in response to the 1996 Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples—which recommended education on Canadian-Indigenous history as one of the key steps to reconciliation, the Blanket Exercise covers over 500 years of history in a one and a half hour participatory workshop.
Blanket Exercise participants take on the roles of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Standing on blankets that represent the land, they walk through pre-contact, treaty-making, colonization and resistance. They are directed by facilitators representing a narrator (or narrators) and the European colonizers. Participants are drawn into the experience by reading scrolls and carrying cards which ultimately determine their outcomes. By engaging on an emotional and intellectual level, the Blanket Exercise effectively educates and increases empathy. Ideally, the exercise is followed by a debriefing session in which participants have the opportunity to discuss the experience as a group. This often takes the form of a talking circle.
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Stanley A. Milner Library
7 Sir Winston Churchill Square
Edmonton, Alberta
T5J 2V4