“Witness, Hope, Interconnectedness” July 12, 2020
Channel: Unitarian Church of Edmonton
Date: 2020-07-13

Twelfth Annual Genocide Memorial Service
“Witness, Hope, Interconnectedness”
Rev. Audrey Brooks, Facilitator 
Canadian Unitarian Council (CUC) National Service
Hosted by the Unitarian Church of Edmonton (UCE)
and the Edmonton Interfaith Centre for Education and Action

We will gather on Zoom, with speakers from countries where people die violent deaths because of intentional attacks against them.  We give witness to their names, remembering that unless we do this, they fade into history as nothing.  
Speakers include:
Metis poet Naomi McIlwraith
Rabbi Gila Caine
Jasmina Colic - Srebrenica Genocide
Rev Fulgence Ndagijimana –Unitarian church in Bujumbura Burundi founder
Karen Porkka Music with Soul Circle Singers 
Musician Roylin Picou
Adrienne Wiebe - “Change for Children” in Guatemala
Rabbi David Kunin
Nicole Ingabire of Rwanda, for the Memory Keepers
Ilara Stefaniuk-Gaudet, author/poet/artist, DRE Westwood Unitarian Congregation
Karen Bilida UCE Board President 
and the founder of the Genocide Memorial Garden and Service, Rev Audrey Brooks, Chaplain of the Unitarian Church of Edmonton 


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The Unitarian Church of Edmonton is a liberal, multi-generational, religious community.
We celebrate a rich mosaic of free-thinking, spiritually-questing individuals joined in common support and action.  We welcome diversity including diversity of beliefs from divine believers to humanists, from pagans to atheists and agnostics.  We believe in the compassion of the human heart, the warmth of community, the pursuit of justice and the search of meaning in our lives.

We gather with gratitude on traditional Cree lands that are now a part of Treaty Six and shared by many nations.   A treaty is an inheritance, a responsibility and a relationship.  May we be good neighbours to one another, good stewards to our planet and good ancestors to our children.

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