In honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Victoria Conservatory of Music is set to host a special event on Sunday, Sept. 29, to highlight Indigenous performers.
"We are aiming to create space for Indigenous performers and music students, and create space for dialogue through music," said Nathan Medd, the Conservatory's CEO. "Music can be a bridge to understanding, and we have heard a desire for the Conservatory to play a role on this day and to support artists who help us toward that understanding."
Hosted by Ry Moran, a multi-instrumentalist, electronic music composer, podcaster and Red River Métis member, the Songs for Truth and Reconciliation event will feature acts from Indigenous hip-hop artists Nicole Ermineskin and Alex Taylor-McCallum, mezzo-soprano singer Marion Newman Nege’ga, music student Naomi Triebwasser and others.
Dr. Barney Williams, a survivor elder and former member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Survivors Circle, will offer a public address.
"The music will be as memorable as anything you have ever heard at the Conservatory," said Medd in the same email. "If the event helps raise awareness and honour the truths shared there by Survivors and performers, the Conservatory will have contributed something to the overall work we are all called on to do."
Visit showpass.com to buy tickets for this event.
