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CTV News
05-05-2025
- General
- CTV News
Red Dress Day events held across London and in surrounding communities
Red Dress ceremony held at the Oneida Nation of the Thames First Nation, May 5, 2025 (Gerry Dewan/CTV News London)
Hamilton Spectator
25-04-2025
- Hamilton Spectator
Peterborough Public Library to mark Red Dress Day with interactive community art installation
The Peterborough Public Library is hosting an interactive community art installation called 'The Red Dress' during the week leading up to and including the National Day of Awareness for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and 2SLGBTQI+ people (MMIWG2S+), also known as Red Dress Day. The installation will be on display in the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Legacy Space at the library's main branch at 345 Aylmer Street North in downtown Peterborough beginning Monday (April 28) and continuing through Red Dress Day the following Monday. Community members are invited to participate in the installation by contributing red fabric, yarn, beading, or other textiles to help create a large, collective red dress. 'Our hope is really just that people take a moment to pause and reflect,' the library's community engagement assistant Désirée Kretschmar told kawarthaNOW. 'Every piece of fabric added to the dress represents a life, a voice, and a shared commitment to remembering. This isn't just about the past. The violence and loss continue today, and the conversation needs to keep going.' In Canada, more than six in 10 Indigenous women have experienced physical or sexual assault in their lifetime, with some estimates suggesting that around 4,000 Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been murdered between 1956 and 2016. According to a 2015 report by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the proportion of Indigenous women homicide victims has continued to increase since 1991 and, by 2014, was almost six times higher than the homicide rate of non-Indigenous women. First commemorated in 2010, Red Dress Day is meant to honour and bring awareness to the thousands of women, girls, and two-spirit people who have been subjected to disproportionate violence in Canada. It was inspired by Métis artist Jaime Black's REDress Project installation, wherein she hung empty red dresses in representation of missing and murdered Indigenous women as 'an aesthetic response to this critical national issue.' The interactive community art installation at the library will begin at noon on Monday with an opening ceremony and smudge with drumming in the Legacy Space, and smudges will be held every morning at 10 a.m. until May 5. 'Whether someone adds to the dress, comes to a smudge, or just takes a quiet moment to be present, that's part of the message too,' Kretschmar said. 'These lives are not forgotten.' The Red Dress project has been developed in partnership with Niijkiwendidaa Anishnaabekwewag Services Circle and the Nogojiwanong Friendship Centre. 'The Red Dress installation provides a visible, community-based way to honour those who have been lost, hold space for those who continue to seek justice, and foster meaningful awareness,' reads a media release from the library. 'The library invites everyone to visit the installation, take a moment to reflect, and add to the collective dress. Each piece of fabric represents a life, a voice, and a shared commitment to community care and remembrance.' The library's Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Legacy Space was established in 2023 as part of an initiative by the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund, founded by late Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie along with his brother Mike Downie and the family of Chanie Wenjack. Chanie was an Indigenous boy who had been taken away from his family home in Ogoki Post, located on the Marten Falls Reserve in northern Ontario, in 1963 and forced to live at a residential school in Kenora. In 1966, the 12-year-old boy died from exposure after he fled the school and attempted to walk the 600-kilometre journey back to his home. The Peterborough Public Library was the first public library to be recognized as a Legacy Space, which is intended to be a safe and welcoming place where conversations and education about Indigenous history and the collective journey towards reconciliation are encouraged and supported.
Irish Times
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Sugababes in Dublin review: A steamroller of peerless pop and sisterhood
Sugababes 3Arena, Dublin ★★★★☆ Like a cross between Destiny's Child and the cast of Grange Hill, Sugababes ' streak of early 21st-century hits applied a gritty British teenage twist to classic girl group pop. The only missing ingredient was the ability to get along. From the start, their quicksilver pop was clouded by melodrama and the occasional backstage bust-up. But a quarter of a century later, the band's founding members – Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan and Siobhán Donaghy – have tied a ribbon around their tumultuous history and replaced conflict with collective joy. Rolling into Dublin 3Arena for the latest leg of a greatest hits tour, they delightfully blend nostalgia with the message that even in the cut-throat music industry, time heals all. There was a lot of healing to do. Donaghy left Sugababes in acrimony after just one album in the middle of a run of dates in Japan. Three years later, in March 2004, a concert in Dublin was cancelled ten minutes after it was due to start amid rumours of a dressingroom face-off between Buchanan and Donaghy's replacement, Heidi Range. READ MORE If ever a comeback was destined to be bumpy, then it was surely that of Sugababes, who are back in Ireland and the scene of the most notorious flashpoint (it was later reported that the cause of the Buchanan-Range dust-up was the perpetually controversial subject of Britney Spears's Toxic). The Sugababes in Dublin: delightfully blending nostalgia with the message that time heals all. Photograph: Alice Backham The twist is that instead of tears and tension, the original Sugababes have returned wiser and more appreciative of their audience. To that end, their Easter Sunday concert at 3Arena is a treat as delicious as an artisanal chocolate egg. It helps that, unlike some of their contemporaries (cough, Spice Girls, cough), their music has held up. That point is demonstrated as they kick off with the doomy, slo-mo stomp of their September 2000 debut single Overload, performed on stools that are revealed as a giant curtain falls to the ground. The atmosphere is half early 2000s pop revival and half heavenly school disco. Backed by a no-frills video display and a pub rock-y band, they rip through Red Dress and Ugly, a one-two that doubles as post-girl power feminist anthemia ('unzip your bias', declares the video screen during the former). Sadly, the mid portion of the set lags by comparison. The problem is that Sugababes don't have quite enough hits to deliver end-to-end bangers. A medley of their early recordings is, for instance, received with polite applause rather than any great enthusiasm. But they get things back on track with an epic new tune, Weeds, a trip-hop thumper that suggests a cross between Girls Aloud and Radiohead. From there, it's into top gear with Round Round: the sort of effortlessly effervescent pop many of their early 2000s contemporaries attempted but could never pull off. The encore is even better as they rip through their Tubeway Army-sampling cover of Adina Howard's Freak Like Me and the bittersweet barnstormer About You Now. The latter is a heartfelt chugger, which the trio, having changed into tracksuits, turns into a divine singalong. With old tensions smoothed over, Sugababes' Easter return to Dublin is a steamroller of peerless pop and sisterhood rekindled. Sugababes at 3Arena. Photograph: Alice Backham
CBC
18-04-2025
- General
- CBC
P.E.I. project gathers names to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
Project lead Lox MacMillan-Metatawabin hopes it will spark healing, awareness Caption: A small red dress hangs from a tree in Victoria Park to honour missing Indigenous women, girls and two-spirited people in a Red Dress event in Charlottetown last year. This year, there will be a new project, called The Silent Jingle, to honour them. (Shane Ross/CBC) A new project on Prince Edward Island is aiming to honour and remember missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people. The project, called The Silent Jingle, is led by Lox MacMillan-Metatawabin, a 22-year-old graduate of Holland College originally from White Bear First Nation in Saskatchewan. At the heart of the project is a red velvet-like hooded cloak, covered in traditional jingle cones. Each cone is engraved with the name of a missing or murdered Indigenous woman or two-spirit person. "Every single jingle represents an MMIWG2S+ and and the sound of the jingles is to allow voices to be heard that were silenced," MacMillan-Metatawabin said. Her team has been putting out calls on social media to collect names and is inviting people from both Canada and the United States to send submissions. As of her interview with CBC on Thursday, 79 names had been submitted. "I do want to showcase the numbers, and that's why the jingles are so important because it represents a person, it represents a girl or a woman," she said. "There's been more talk about reconciliation and healing and everything for our communities, but there's still so much more that needs to happen, and this is just one project that could maybe help support the process of healing for our communities." Names are still being accepted until April 22. People can submit by contacting the team through email. The completed cloak will be unveiled during a public event on May 24 in P.E.I., MacMillan-Metatawabin said. Details about the event will be posted on the project's Facebook and Instagram pages, The Silent Jingle. From sticky note to project for healing The idea for The Silent Jingle began about two years ago when MacMillan-Metatawabin was working at Mi'kmaq Printing and Design in Charlottetown. The idea holds deep personal meaning for her. Her grandmother was a Sixties Scoop survivor, and her father was a federal Indian day school survivor. MacMillan-Metatawabin said her parents and grandparents worked hard to give her a good life and she has always wanted to give back. "I always knew that in my life I wanted to do something to help women and to help my Indigenous community." Last year, she applied for and received a grant aimed at tackling gender inequality. That funding helped turn her vision into reality. She then assembled a team of nine people, including a designer to create the cloak. "We chose a red cape and not a dress because we wanted the cape to be able to fit anybody, if anybody needs to wear it down the road," she said. "There's going to be some black fur that's going to be on the hood… The black fur is also to commemorate the Inuit peoples." Every single jingle represents an MMIWG2S+ and and the sound of the jingles is to allow voices to be heard that were silenced. - Lox MacMillan-Metatawabin MacMillan-Metatawabin says that the cloak is also meant to spark conversations and raise awareness. "If you have no idea… [about] Indigenous peoples or MMIWG2S+ whatever, if you just, like, see a red cape, it draws your attention," she said. Each time someone sends in the name of a loved one, it's a moment of trust and respect, she said. "It's such a big deal to be able to open wounds and share these names, and for us, it's such an honour, so we want to make sure that everything is respectful and with love and compassion."
Telegraph
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Sugababes: A no-frills trip down memory lane from the Noughties' coolest girl group
Nostalgia sells. It's why the Gallagher brothers are set to perform for more than two million revellers this summer, and it explains why Gen Z, quick as they are to badmouth millennials or boomers, can't get enough of Y2K fashion or Fleetwood Mac. And it's because of this never-ending thrall to nostalgia that Sugababes – almost 30 years on since they were formed as teenagers, and following countless line-up changes – took to the stage at the O2 Arena on Thursday night. The gig followed a triumphant run of reunion shows in 2022 and a Glastonbury set that proved so in-demand last summer it shut down an entire stage. Of course, you can learn a lot about someone from their favourite girl group – All Saints equalled style, Little Mix or Girls Aloud gave away your average girls-next-door, and Atomic Kitten simply hinted at bad taste (or a propensity for Iceland frozen party food) – but Sugababes fans tended to be edgier, and more diverse. They were the Noughties' coolest girl group, hip and fresh, meaning their listeners were often made up of a mix of bubblegum pop-loving teenage girls and otherwise proud indie-music snobs. The trio – again consisting of original members Keisha Buchanan, Mutya Buena, and Siobhán Donaghy – proved happy to take their drunken fans on a trip down memory lane. But there were caveats: fans were quickly reminded that, for every two or three bangers, there would be four or five later-career singles nobody really knew the words to. Opener Overload, their very first single from 2000, performed with the music video playing behind them, was a moving testament to their decades-long success and growth as artists, and women. More hits followed: the groovy, garage-influenced Hole in the Head and Red Dress; the introspective self-love ballad Ugly. Yet after a promising start, the dreaded bar-and-loo exodus went on and on during the entire midsection of Sugababes' set. The plodding No Regrets and Flatline (the latter released under the name Mutya Keisha Siobhán, when the group were battling later members for the rights to the Sugababes name) were the first signals they had lost the crowd – with the songs not entirely to blame. The group have always been vocalists first, entertainers second, but in an arena as unforgiving as the O2 – massive, stark, cold – you need the bells and whistles: pyrotechnics, slick choreography, a raucous full band. Their tendency to just shuffle around the stage failed to hype up the audience in the moments they needed it most. Luckily, the set's three final tracks clawed back attention: their surly, sexy cover of Adina Howard's Freak Like Me, which gave them their first UK Number 1 in 2002, was followed by interminable earworm Push the Button and, finally, pop-rock banger About You Now, also known as the go-to karaoke song for every woman born between 1993 and 2000 (guilty as charged). This tour is Sugababes' first in an exclusively arena setting, and while it wasn't a show to set the world alight, it served its purpose as a fun night out complete with some fun songs.
