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“Red is our colour, red is our resistance, red is part of nature. Red is our strength.”

Elisapie, Inuk singer-songwriter from Salluit, Nunavik

A woman singing at a microphone, gesturing widely with her arms. She wears a dark red, sheer dress with long arms. Partially obscured.

Beyond the Beat: Music of Resistance and Change

Open until September 2024 — Ground‐breaking and history‐making moments when music made a difference.

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A digital illustration showing a crowd clapping and raising their hands. The background shows a pixelated green soundwave shape and blue and black graffiti-like designs with neon-coloured diagonal lines radiating out from the center. Partially obscured.

Resource Guide: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQI+ People

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5 red dresses of different sizes and designs are displayed on mannequins. Partially obscured.

Be an Upstander Student Showcase

May 23, 2024

Cost: Free and open to the public

In a museum gallery, students exhibit projects on easels. Two students speak with adults about their work. Partially obscured.

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Location

Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Hours

Open Today:

10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Admission

Adult General Admission:

$18

Events

Anikis Pisim (Frog Moon): Saying Kisâkihitin

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Cost: Free, registration required

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A stylized image shows a human hand gently holding a glass orb of the earth. The background is a night sky with stars and bright green northern lights. Partially obscured.

Celebrating Pride: Kendall Gender presents KENAISSANCE

May 24, 2024

Cost: $20

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A glamourous drag queen with long blonde hair and dramatic makeup is wearing a bejeweled red bikini top with long silver fringe. With their right hand to their head, a tattoo is revealed on the inner arm that reads “life is blind.” Partially obscured.

Beyond the Rainbow Storytime

May 26, 2024

Cost: Free event; registration appreciated

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Three drag artists holding books are standing in front of a rainbow-themed circle arch. Partially obscured.

Beyond the Rainbow Brunch

May 26, 2024

Cost: $20 (does not include food). Brunch items offered at varying prices. Registration is required.

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A person is sitting at a table with a glass of orange juice and a plate of eggs benedict and hash browns. Partially obscured.

Upcoming Events

Stories

What Is Two‐Spirit? Part One: Origins

By Scott de Groot

Multicoloured people, birds and other animals walk up a red hill in the centre of the image, approaching from the left and right, looking towards a large birdlike figure within an arch. Stylized trees and plants grow upwards and fill much of the yellow sky. A bear descends from the top left edge and large birds fly in from the top right corner. Within the red area of the hill are a profusion of blue and green turtles, snakes, birds and other animal forms. An archlike shape below contains other creatures. Partially obscured.

Gender‐based violence across Canada

By Julie S. Lalonde

A digital collage with a large drawing of an umbrella overlaid with images of large overlapping hands. Below it, two hands (one black, one pink) reach up and away from a stylized road leading to a distant house partially overlaid with a pixelated, cloudy stain of red colour. In the background is an image of a forest of white tree trunks and a faint yellow sun. Partially obscured.

Five Women Who Should Be Household Names in Canada

By Matthew McRae

Six red dresses are suspended in air on hangers in front of a backdrop. The backdrop features an image of a birch wood forest with more red dresses hanging in it. Partially obscured.

Nursing and Indigenous peoples’ health: reconciliation in practice

By Maureen Fitzhenry

A group of Indigenous women nurses stand together outside. Partially obscured.

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Exhibitions

Ododo Wa: Stories of Girls in War

October 2019 to March 2025

Exhibition details

A group of young women and girls in their teens stand together on the front porch of a building. Most are dressed in white blouses and blue skirts, with two girls also wearing blue sweaters. To the right, a doorway reveals a roomful of students sitting at wooden desks and writing on notepads. Partially obscured.

Climate Justice

June 2022 to June 2024

Exhibition details

A crowd of youth hold protest signs and stand behind a large banner that reads “La Terre Mère,” or “mother earth” in English. Partially obscured.

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A smiling woman with light skin is filmed on a cell phone. She is wearing a lanyard with the words “Be inspired” and standing in front of an exhibit element made of horizontal strips of wood, some decorated with Indigenous art. Partially obscured. — Photo: CMHR, Scott Gillam