Remembered Aloud at Mountain View Cemetery
Schedule
Mon Nov 11 2024 at 10:45 am
UTC-08:00Location
Mountain View Cemetery - Vancouver | Vancouver, BC
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Join us on Monday, November 11th in the Horne 2 Field of Honour at Mountain View Cemetery (north of 33rd ave) for Remembered Aloud.At 10:50am, musica intima will perform a new arrangement of Russell Wallace’s “Forgotten Warriors”. Originally created for the 1995 film of the same name (Loretta Todd / National Film Board) the piece explores indigenous veterans’ contributions during the two World Wars and how these veterans were treated upon returning to Canada. Although fighting for the Crown gave them Canadian citizenship, it cost them their Status under the Indian Act and they no longer had a community to return to. They also soon discovered they were not being given the kind of employment opportunities and financial and housing assistance other veterans enjoyed.
At 11am, a bell will toll 11 times, followed by 2 minutes of silence.
11 brass players and singers from 2 choirs (musica intima and The Vancouver Bach Choir) will gather to sing + play a simple Phrase of Remembrance together. All the performers will then begin to move away from each other, and each person in their own time will read a name out loud from a grave marker, and then sing or play the Phrase of Remembrance, until they have left the Field of Honour.
Over 12,000 veterans rest in Mountain View, and the hope is this event will speak several hundred names out loud, and each of those people will be given a small moment of individual reflection.
We invite all of you to join us in silent meditation as the music and performers move across the Field of Honour, and to reflect on the sacrifices made by so many. Your presence to witness the ceremony and hear the names and repetition of the Phrase of Remembrance is what gives this unique performance life and power.
Both together as a group, and as separate, independent voices, we are unified in the belief that war can never be the answer.
We respectfully acknowledge that our work and gatherings take place on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the
Coast Salish peoples– the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
photo: Wayne Worden
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Where is it happening?
Mountain View Cemetery - Vancouver, 5455 Fraser Street,Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
