December 6, 2024
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
Dialogues for Grief and Action
Please note that registration is required to attend the in-person event and space is limited.
On Friday, December 6, 2024, the University of Toronto will join communities across Canada to honour the lives of the 14 women killed at Montreal’s École Polytechnique in 1989. Join us in-person at the St. George campus, or online via YouTube, for this annual memorial and reflection.
To mark the 35th anniversary of this devastating act of misogyny, we will join together in collective grief for all those lost to gender-based violence as we share a meal, remember those who were killed, and look towards a better future. This event will include a musical tribute, an awards presentation, a memorial led by the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, and facilitated roundtable discussions with your colleagues, classmates, and friends.
We will close the event with a brief campus walk, where participants will have the option to lay a rose in commemoration.
If you’re based at UTSC and would like to mark this occasion on your campus, you can register to watch the livestream and engaged in discussion with colleagues and classmates at the Catalyst Centre.
The Agenda
Join us on Dec. 6 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. ET in-person at the St. George Campus or from 12:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET via livestream.
All students, staff, faculty, and librarians are welcome to attend this tri-campus event to mark the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. Our program (subject to change) includes:
- In-Person Only: Sign-In and Orchestral Performance, 11:30 a.m.
- Please arrive between 11:30 a.m. and 12 p.m. to facilitate sign-in (registration for the in-person event is required in advance)
- In-Person Only: Lunch, Opening Remarks, and Roundtable Discussions, 12 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
- In-Person and Virtual: Awards Presentation and Memorial (led by the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering), 12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
- In-Person and Virtual: Closing Reflections, 1:45 p.m. – 2 p.m.
- In-Person: Optional Walk and Laying-Down of Roses, 2 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
AccessIbility
The virtual event will include closed captioning. If you require other accessibility accommodations for either in-person or virtual participation, please let us know via email.
Reflective Spaces SElf-Guided Walking Tour
If you are interested in spending more time in reflection on Dec. 6 or in the days that follow, we are also pleased to have a Self-Guided Memorial Walk available as a new resource for all participants. You may use this tool to navigate to various points of interest on campus that are related to gender-based violence prevention.
This event is co-hosted by the Sexual Violence Prevention and Support Centre, Hart House, and the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.
