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Youth quilt displayed at Nav Can helps students belong
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One student, who identified hi m self onl y as Bruno on his panel, wrote about the war m sense of belonging he felt when he visited Switzerland to see his extended fa m - il y . Other students celebrated the value of belonging to native culture with artwork showing various nature scenes, while an- other wrote of a sense of ho m e inspired b y the call of the bagpipes. Perhaps one of the m ost touching panels on the Youth Quilt was created b y Lochlan MacDonald, a Grade 6 student at Laggan Public School. MacDonald designed a Celt- ic-the m ed panel displa y ing Scottish flags and a tartan as well as a m essage celebrat- ing the value of inclusion. “Most people have their place of belong- ing, whether it is their fa m il y or a group of friends,” he wrote. “If the y don’t, I will help the m find a place.” The project also allowed students to unite and show their co mm unities what can be acco m plished when students work togeth- er toward a co mm on goal, said Beaudette. “When the y are able to go through the exhibition of their quilt the y realize the y are part of so m ething m uch bigger than the m - selves,” she said. “It m agnifies the sense of belonging.” Ja m es Lauzon, a Grade 5 student at Lag- gan Public School, said the Youth Quilt was a great wa y to showcase the value of char- acter traits such as responsibilit y , caring, and perseverance. “I think it shows that students reall y do care about the m because the y ’re putting their work out there for quite a few people to see so the y ’ve got to reall y care,” he said. The Quilt of Belonging is an i m pressive 120-foot tapestr y designed to celebrate the cultural legac y of Canada’s First Nations and ever y countr y in the world through hun- dreds of panels created b y volunteers fro m across Canada. Both the Quilt of Belonging and Youth Quilt were on displa y Frida y and Saturda y at the Nav Centre for area students and oth- ers to enjo y .
It’s 800 panels worth of caring, persever- ance, responsibility and empathy inter- woven in a tapestry of belonging. The Upper Canada District School Board unveiled a unique art project Thursda y night to showcase the i m portance our s y s- te m places on character. The Youth Quilt Project was officiall y pre- sented to the co mm unit y during an eve- ning cere m on y at the Nav Centre. The project is a testa m ent to Esther Br y - an’s Quilt of Belonging, and encouraged students fro m seven schools in the UCDSB and Ahkwesahsne Mohawk Board of Edu- cation to build an extension of the fa m ous quilt. The work of art is co m prised of about 800 eight-b y -eight-inch panels m ounted on coloured backgrounds that flow through the spectru m of colours in the sa m e wa y as the Quilt of Belonging. The panels bear students’ own m essages of character such as caring and responsibilit y . Students were also encouraged to express wh y attaining a sense of belonging is i m portant. The quilt took m onths to m ake and in- volved students fro m kindergarten to Grade 12 fro m Willia m stown Public School, Laggan Public School, Glengarr y District High School, Cornwall Collegiate and Vo- cational School, South Branch Ele m entar y School, Rothwell-Osnabruck School and TSI Snaihne School. The undertaking helped students deepl y anal y ze and understand the true i m por- tance of character traits such as respon- sibilit y , caring, e m path y and respect, said Brenda Beaudette, UCDSB principal of con- tinuous school i m prove m ent. “It’s reall y eas y to just throw out a word in class, but when y ou’re actuall y asked to give exa m ples in art and talk about what sorts of e m otions that word invokes in y ou – well that takes the understanding to a whole new level,” explained Beaudette.
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Esther Bryan poses with a DVD of a docu m entary fil m ed on the creation of the Quilt of Belonging. The docu m entary detailing the 15-year m ulti-cultural project was debuted during a special launch event at the Nav Centre in Cornwall last weekend, along with a newly unveiled Youth Quilt of Belonging.
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The Youth Quilt of Belonging is pictured along two walls of the Ca m pbell Roo m at the Nav Centre in Cornwall during a special event to launch a docu m entary about the m aking of the Quilt of Belonging, a 15-year-project spearheaded by Esther Bryan.
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