Sisy W, Terence Z, Marco M

“We call upon the federal government, in collaboration with Aboriginal peoples, and the Canadian Museums Association to mark the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation in 2017 by establishing a dedicated national funding program for commemoration projects on the theme of reconciliation.”

For this project, we were choosing one of the action 68 to work on as our title. The problem with Call to Action 68 is that the federal government has not fulfilled any of the prescribed quotas, which has weakened the importance of controlling funds in indigenous communities and has not even consulted with the people in the first place. It is very important to save this problem. Since Canada’s National Day is a time of celebration, and the relationship between the government and the Indigenous people has broken down, the people acknowledge that Canada’s National Day is not a major event worthy of real celebration and urgently needs reconciliation. Our goal is to resolve these grievances so that the future of Canada Day can be an act of respect and reconciliation.

In this project, we included history, awareness, ties and celebrations. We have considered the use of posters or advertisements, museum exhibits, street marketing, distribution of brochures, handouts, items such as souvenirs, storybooks, and even the use of food and drink to achieve our goals. We hope to build on our solid foundation and take advantage of our retrospective and explorable medium to address this particular topic. However, we must be absolutely careful about the inadvertent appropriation of aspects and ensure that the credibility and informativeness of our limited references are carefully checked.

After we made our project and design statements, we started to make our idea moodboards. After we decided which 3 poster ideas we go with, three of us were making our own three posters and decided to go with Marco’s series. All three of us did cooperate well and the outcome was turning good.