Passage Home Dedication Ceremony
Everyone is invited to attend the dedication ceremony for the Passage Home Public Sculpture and Healing Park in Prince Albert, a commemoration event marking the 150th anniversary of the signing of Treaty Six.
Passage Home is a bronze memorial sculpture created by Mary Longman Askipiyesiwiskwew, a Saulteaux artist from Gordon’s First Nation, in partnership with The City of Prince Albert. The Public Sculpture and Healing Park serve as a memorial healing site and community gathering place dedicated to Indigenous children who passed away from home, and to those still finding their way back home as a result of day schools, residential schools, and the Sixties Scoop.
The work also honours survivors and family members who continue to grieve and heal today. The bronze sculpture is based on the form of a traditional akotâpân (travois), symbolically offering a safe passage for children to return to their families, territories of origin, and to rest in peace.
The event will take place in Scarrow Plaza from 11:00am to 1:00pm on Saturday, August 22nd