The N'Swakamok Friendship Centre will be hosting the Shades of Our Sisters exhibit all day on Saturday, May 27.
The immersive exhibit shares the stories of two of the more than 1,200 missing and murdered Indigenous women, Sonya Cywink and Patricia Carpenter. The familes of the two women named the exhibit as well as produced it in partnership with a pair of Ryerson University students and Upwind Productions.
Photographs of the two women throughout their lives, along with childhood items including dolls, hand-written letters, job applications and more are arranged throughout the exhibit.
Tablets with headphones are stationed throughout the exhibit, with descriptions of the items and photographs.
The exhibit is aimed at personalizing and humanizing the stories of these two women to create solidarity between both Indigenous and non-Indegenous communities.
"She went out one night and never came home," said Joyce Carpenter, Patricia's mother. "I want other young girls, women, young boys to be very careful, I want them to hear my daughter's story."
The exhibit opened on Friday, May 26 and will be open May 27 from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Admission is free.
