Commemorating the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (and beyond), LOVE 2022 officially starts with a special publication of Superstar X Magazine,  dedicated to (un)Learning for Truth & (re)Conciliation.

Published by Superstar X, its purpose is to help promote awareness, understanding, and actions to actualize the 94 Calls to Action (and beyond), while also celebrating the talents and stories of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples, along with support from their allies.

We are deeply honoured that Elder Ma-Nee Chacaby is featured on the cover of Superstar X Magazine, and shares her perspective on what she'd like everyone to do for Truth and Reconciliation.  

When Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc confirmed the remains of 215 children onsite at Kamloops Indian Residential School, Vanessa Génier knew she needed to do something to help with the healing journey.

Vanessa decided to make "comfort quilts" and gift them to Survivors of Indian Residential Schools. She founded "Quilts for Survivors" and has started a global movement of healing.

A special gathering of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Truth-Tellers for LOVE 2022, and beyond, at The X Gallery (inside the Metaverse).

Come join us for a selection of guided art tours and conversations about Truth, as well as some of the behind-the-scenes of how LOVE 2022 came to Be!

Through the context of Darin James Corbiere's multimedia art, he shares his inspiring journey to create an educational resource in the form of a board game to teach about "The Truth in Truth and Reconciliation."

Darin was a former police officer and a secondary school teacher in Ontario. When the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's Final Report was released in 2015, the Ontario Teachers Secondary School Federation put together a group of Indigenous educators to design a toolkit to teach the Federation's members.

So, Darin created a board game called "The Truth in Truth and Reconciliation." It is a trivia game that teaches about the true relationship between Canada and Indigenous Peoples who live here. He has started a Go Fund Me so that he can GIVE AWAY copies of the board game and a 100-page "Genuine Indian Guidebook."

James Darin Corbiere shares his inspiring journey to create an educational resource in the form of a board game to teach about "The Truth in Truth and Reconciliation."

Darin was a former police officer and a secondary school teacher in Ontario. When the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's Final Report was released in 2015, the Ontario Teachers Secondary School Federation put together a group of Indigenous educators to design a toolkit to teach the Federation's members.

So, he created a board game called "The Truth in Truth and Reconciliation." It is a trivia game that teaches about the true relationship between Canada and Indigenous Peoples who live here. He has started a Go Fund Me so that he can GIVE AWAY copies of the board game and a 100-page "Genuine Indian Guidebook."

Join us at The X Gallery, inside Abeautiful art district ine Metaverse, to e(x)perience "Emotional Snapshots" by X!

Lynda Gray, a member of Ts'msyen Nation, is the author of First Nations 101. This book is a highly comprehensive and accessible foundation of Indigenous Peoples' past and present, which has non-Indigenous and Indigenous readers in mind.

Building on Lynda's book, this Truth Talk will provide "an overview of the day-to-day lives of Indigenous people, traditional Indigenous communities, colonial interventions used in an attempt to assimilate Indigenous people into mainstream society, the impacts those interventions had on Indigenous families and communities, and how Indigenous people are working towards holistic health and wellness today." Lynda's work helps to inform and inspire everyone along their ongoing journey of Truth and (re)Conciliation.

Superstar X's first otherworldly art exhibition is "Alien Realities," by Edward K. Weatherly, whose life and artwork were the primary inspiration for his sister, Nicole, to found Superstar X. On behalf of Edward, Nicole will provide a guided tour inside his fascinating world, with hopes of shining light on many matters of the heart.

This is the first documentary in a series of three, produced by Dr. Patricia Makokis. Thanks to her generosity, we will be screening Treaty Talk for free, followed by a Q&A with Dr. Makokis! 

Each of these pieces was created by Sarah McPherson using an experimental film process called Film Soup. This process is a very broad and open-ended experimental photography medium that allows the voices of non-verbal elements to take a new visual shape.

In Sarah's work, she aims to explore the relationships we all have with the land and waters around us. In a modern world dominated by technology and amenities, it’s easy to believe that we are separate from the natural world; her work is an exploration of how untrue that really is.

Come join us at The X Gallery for a special guided tour of Film Soup! Learn more about how Sarah works to represent the duality present between what it means to be a person and what it means to be alive relative to the natural world.

Neil Orlowsky, MEd, PhD, is an ardent supporter of Human Rights and Peacebuilding, who was recently invited by Treaty Three Police Officer, Chief Kai Lu, to speak on the power of perseverance, the power of the upstander, and the Abraham Global Peace Initiative's (AGPI's) Power of One Human Rights Exhibit to more than fifty Indigenous students and Indigenous police officers across Canada.

In this Truth Talk, as the Director of Education and Chair of Global Education for AGPI, Neil will be sharing “Power of One” initiative, which illustrates how one person can "take action to make the world a better place." Among the "Power of One" contributors is Cogwagee (Thomas Charles Longboat), who was an Onondaga distance runner from the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario.

As shown inside Superstar X Magazine's publication for LOVE 2022, there are 17 Survivors who are proudly wrapped in their "comfort quilts." 
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When Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc confirmed the remains of 215 children onsite at Kamloops Indian Residential School, Vanessa Génier knew she needed to do something to help with the healing journey.

Vanessa decided to make "comfort quilts" and gift them to Survivors of Indian Residential Schools. She founded "Quilts for Survivors" and has started a global movement of healing.

James Darin Corbiere, an Anishinaabe, Bear Clan, originally from Wikwemikong on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, shares his healing journey through art. Darin grew up on the reserve where he used to be able to see colours around people until bad things happened at the Church. The sight stopped.

Then, he turned 50 and realized he was tired of running; so he decided to do some healing work. The colours came back, and it was in his artwork that he began expressing the colours he sees. His artwork has helped him to heal, predominantly in the medium of wood that shows him the way.

Kaitlyn Wilcox (she/they), a mixed Potawatomi, Métis, and settler Two-Spirit person, and Nan McLeod, an Indigenous Queer Anishnaabeg Adoptee from Neyashiingimiing will be sharing their perspectives on ReconciliACTION, including statistics of colonialism, settler responsibility, and how to enter reconciliative relationships in a culturally safe way.

A special ceremony to close LOVE 2022 in a good way.

Among LOVE 2022's featured guests, Kym Gouchie and Jessica McDiarmid will be attending... and more to be announced soon!
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Kym Gouchie, musician and artist, and Jessica McDiarmid, author and journalist, met along a walk, "Cleansing the Highway," from Prince Rupert to Prince George, which took 17 days to complete. Organized by Brenda Wilson, the purpose of this walk was to create more awareness about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) crisis and inspire more actions to solve the cases and ultimately prevent this pervasive violence from happening.

To help further awareness, Jessica wrote the book, Highway of Tears, which chronicles "A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls," and Kym Gouchie's art of the same name is on the book's cover.

We invite you inside The X Gallery to learn more about this journey and to purchase a limited edition art print to support the important work needed to prevent the MMIWG crisis from continuing.