HEU locals are invited to submit quilt squares to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people.
Over the past decade, “Red Dress” become a symbol for raising awareness about the ongoing issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people across Canada. It started from the REDress Project, an installation by artist Jaime Black, who hung up red dresses to mark MMIWG2S. Today, it is a national movement that includes Red Dress Day (May 5), with community events across the country.
HEU is assembling an HEU Red Dress Quilt which will be made up of quilt patches from HEU locals across the province. This is a great opportunity for any members who have some sewing, quilting or crafting skills (or even those who don’t!) to take part in union-wide collaboration.
How?
Over the course of this year, we’ll be collecting quilt patches from locals. To contribute a quilt patch, your local can make up to two 16 inch x 16 inch squares. With a Red Dress theme, the quilt squares can be designed in any way that your local wants.
Once your local has created the quilt squares, you can send them by mail to:
Lynn Serhan, HEU DVP
c/o HEU
5000 North Fraser Way
Burnaby, BC V5J 5M3
The deadline to submit quilt squares is April 30, 2024.
What we will do with the quilt?
After the quilt squares are collected, we’ll assemble them into a large HEU quilt in time for convention 2024.
The HEU Red Dress Quilt will be on display at convention, where it will be raffled. Proceeds of the raffle will be donated to two non-profit organizations:
- The Women’s Memorial March (https://womensmemorialmarch.wordpress.com/) and
- Prince George Red Dress Society (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064915262766)