Southcentre Mall

Commemorate with ReconciliACTION

In partnership with the Pokaiks Reconciliation Society, we invite you to join us in meaningful reflection and action. Together, we encourage you to engage in five impactful ReconciliACTIONs, designed to foster understanding and support reconciliation.

Commemorate September 30th by honoring the survivors and the children lost in residential schools. Learn how we can all work towards reconciliation by taking ACTION and being a good ALLY.

As part of Southcentre Mall’s 50th anniversary, 50 passports are available for you to actively engage and start your journey toward understanding. Pick up your “ReconciliACTION Passport” at Guest Services.

How to be a Good ALLY:

Accept ● Learn ● Listen ● You

50 ReconciliACTIONs

National Day for Truth & Reconciliation provides an opportunity to recognize and commemorate the tragic history and ongoing legacy of residential schools. It’s an opportunity to honour the survivors, their families, and their communities. Striving towards reconciliation takes action.

In addition to the passport, we have also listed 50 ReconciliACTIONs on our website to further inspire ways you can respectfully participate in reconciliation within your community.

Orange Shirt Day was started by Phyllis Webstad in 2013 to “support Indian Residential School Reconciliation, to create awareness of the individual, family and community intergenerational impacts of Indian Residential Schools and to create awareness of the concept of “Every Child Matters” Truth and Reconciliation Day was declared this July as a federal statutory holiday to be honoured every year on Orange Shirt Day on September 30th.

This day is to honour the survivors of the residential school system who have fought and are still fighting to bring that terrible history to our attention. We walk to remember the thousands of children that died in residential schools. We walk to honour all Indigenous peoples as they reclaim and restore their identity, equality, and dignity. “We will walk to stand up for transformative social change that is so urgently needed in Canada,” as inspired by the closing words of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Final Report.

Orange Shirt Day events also help Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to learn about current issues and to start collaborating on solutions by building awareness, dispelling stereotypes, building relationships and generating appreciation and support for our Indigenous peoples. We are better together, and it’s through events like this art exhibit, that we can build bridges and unite our Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities of Calgary.