In keeping with the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (September 30, 2021), it’s a good time to revisit A Continued Conversation on Residential Schools, a virtual discussion the AGO hosted in June 2020, about thoughtfully sharing the history and intergenerational effects of residential schools with children and youth.

Robert Durocher, Vice-Principal at Kâpapâmahchakwêw – Wandering Spirit School (TDSB), award-winning author, educator and artist Dr. Jenny Kay Dupuis, and hip-hop artist and activist Lindsay “Eekwol” Knight were joined in conversation with the AGO’s Dr. Audrey Hudson; linked HERE.

Also this past year, as part of the Shape of the Museum series, Paul Chaat Smith, Curator, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, and Wanda Nanibush, AGO Curator, Indigenous Art spoke at length virtually about the roles museums and cultural institutions have in shaping complex conversations when exhibiting work made by Indigenous artists, linked HERE.