Calgary\u2019s Southcentre Mall is hosting a month-long Indigenous art show to commemorate Sept. 30, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which Canada recently declared as a federal statutory holiday.<\/p>\n
The Colouring It Forward Reconciliation Society has teamed up with the Southcentre Mall for the exhibit, which features 18 Indigenous artists showcasing different topics within their artwork.<\/p>\n
Diana Frost is the founder of Colouring It Forward Inc., a social enterprise, and the Colouring It Forward Reconciliation Society, a non-profit. She says that art exhibits are sometimes easier to highlight issues than reading about them from books.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need more art exhibits to share with people. I think art does portray someone\u2019s reality and someone\u2019s vision of a topic and I think\u2026 art is a way to learn about an issue in a less threatening way than sometimes than a speech or reading a book\u2026It\u2019s a bit easier to look at and take in at your own pace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alexandra Velosa is the marketing manager for Southcentre Mall and is excited to be a part of this event, which began Sept. 1 and runs to the 30th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n The exhibit can be found by the Sport Check entrance on the second floor of the mall.<\/span><\/p>\n Information about the exhibit can be found on the mall\u2019s website,\u00a0www.southcentremall.com<\/a>\u00a0or on the Colouring it Forward website at\u00a0https:\/\/colouringitforward.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Calgary\u2019s Southcentre Mall is hosting a month-long Indigenous art show to commemorate Sept. 30, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which Canada recently declared as a federal statutory holiday. The Colouring It Forward Reconciliation Society has teamed up with the Southcentre Mall for the exhibit, which features 18 Indigenous artists showcasing different topics within…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":59384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,221],"tags":[9232,9233,9231,8174],"radio":[9847],"origine":[268,267,228],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59381"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=59381"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=59381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}