Orange Shirt Day Flag Printing Workshop

The Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies in collaboration with UBC Okanagan Gallery are pleased to invite the public to create a series of printed hummingbird flags in honour of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The workshop will be led by Tania Willard, UBC Okanagan Gallery Director and Assistant Professor in Visual Arts.

Participants will create linocut prints of hummingbirds to honour the children (little spirits) who never came home and remember the unmarked graves at residential schools across Canada, as we continue to demand justice for Indigenous communities.

This marks the third year of the hummingbird flag project, which has been featured at UBC Okanagan and in a recent exhibition at the Rotary Centre for the Arts. The flags produced this year will be added to the collection of previous year’s flags and installed in a circle at the courtyard on the UBC Okanagan campus.

The flag installation event will take place Friday, September 27 from 10 am to 12 noon in the Central Courtyard

This workshop is free and open to students, faculty and the general public. All materials are provided and you do not have to attend the workshop to participate in the installation event.

Please contact fccs.ubco@ubc.ca to register.