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Tristan Whiston, of Red Dress Productions, Brigitte Lebel, executive director of the Amelia Rising Sexual Assault Centre of Nipissing, and Roberta Della-Picca, of the Sexual Assault Centre of Renfrew, place pebbles in a template for the Countdown Public Art Project in North Bay, Thursday. PJ Wilson/The Nugget

When Tristan Whiston and Andy Trull began holding workshops in Renfrew County to design and build memorials for sexual assault survivors, they weren’t sure what to expect.

“We were cautioned ‘you can’t count success by the number of people who come out,’” Whiston said Friday as he and Trull were getting ready to launch a project at Amelia Rising Sexual Assault Centre in North Bay.

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In December, Mark Jones of the Valley Gazette interviewed Red Dress Productions on the Countdown Public Art Legacy Project’s history, purpose, and process in creating Ontario monuments that honour sexual assault survivors.

Please read Renfrew County initiative extended across the province (PDF, 319 KB).

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Hands Across the Shield
November 25 & 26, 2018

Two upcoming community arts gatherings in Killaloe and Pembroke, Ontario, will support the Countdown Public Art Legacy Project. The project creates public art monuments to increase awareness of gender-based and sexual violence. In the new year, we will be creating four new monuments throughout Ontario between February and June 2019.

Sunday November 25, 2018
2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
CRC, 12 North Street
Killaloe,

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