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Check it out: Aerial view of new BIPOC mural on Elgin St.

Mural painted over the weekend on downtown thoroughfare
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If you’re driving along Elgin Street near the Sudbury.com office, you’ll notice a new ground mural painted over the weekend by Black Lives Matter Sudbury.

The colourful mural features the words “BIPOC LIVES MATTER/ LES VIES NAPDC COMPTENT.” It also features two dreamcatchers.

BIPOC is an acronym for Black, Indigenous, People of Colour.

A press release from Black Lives Matter said the mural features the colours of the Indigenous Medicine Wheel, the Pride Flag, the Trans Flag, the Pan African Flag, as well the BLM colours.

The minority groups aforementioned are often discriminated against and made invisible in small northern communities where they are already small to begin with, said the press release.

This project aims to ensure that these groups are made visible, and to raise awareness to the issues surrounding them in the Greater Sudbury area.

The mural was designed in consultation with Fierté Sudbury Pride, the ROCS (Regroupement des organismes culturels de Sudbury) as well as the Department of Indigenous Studies of the University of Sudbury.

The mural would not have been possible without the contributions made by ROCS, Fierté Sudbury, and UpHere.

The group gave a special thanks to the Townehouse Tavern and The Laughing Buddha for supplying food and washroom access at no cost.


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