Event
Hubert Thériault – Reading circle — Final Report on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) Inquiry
Sep. 03 2025 ⇾ Jun. 10 2026 (Wednesday)
13:00 to 14:00
Online | Free
Registration (for any questions, pls email mari@studio303.ca)
Language: French & English
CONTEXT
The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) is an independent inquiry (from the Federal Government). Published in 2019, it contains 231 Calls for Justice directed at governments, institutions, and the Canadian public. These calls address the systemic violence and discrimination faced by Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ individuals.
The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) is an independent inquiry (from the Federal Government). Published in 2019, it contains 231 Calls for Justice directed at governments, institutions, and the Canadian public. These calls address the systemic violence and discrimination faced by Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ individuals.
Objective
The reading circle provides a space for collective and embodied engagement as we gather to read these texts aloud. For one hour each week, we will take turns reading for 40 minutes, followed by a time of discussion or quiet reflection on what we’ve read. By coming together as a community of artists, educators, and researchers, we aim to deepen our understanding of the systemic violence faced by Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals in Canada. Inspired by projects like the TRC Reading Challenge and Theatre Passe Muraille’s reading of the TRC report, we hope that the shared experience of reading aloud and reflecting on this knowledge will strengthen our ability to work respectfully and effectively together in the future.
Link to the report: Final Report of the National Inquiry into MMIWG.
Link to the report: Final Report of the National Inquiry into MMIWG.
Content
In 2023–24, this Reading Circle (then led by Thea Patterson) read the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Report. In 2024–25, the Circle read the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act and began reading the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). In 2025–26, the Circle will continue reading the MMIWG Report.
This activity is open to new participants at any point during the year, even if they are not yet familiar with the Report. At the beginning of each session, we explain where we are at so new people can easily join.
This activity is open to new participants at any point during the year, even if they are not yet familiar with the Report. At the beginning of each session, we explain where we are at so new people can easily join.
Biography
Hubert Thériault is a French-Canadian creature, performer, movement researcher and writer. Hubert’s interests revolve around mythologies, strategies of storytelling, anticolonialism, time traveling and somatics of social justice. Through their practices, Hubert attempts at creating spaces of representation and dissolution where haunting colonial narratives are confronted to their fears and sadnesses. Hubert’s recent work focuses on historical reenactments and the specificities of Quebec’s coloniality. Hubert believes in dancing. He has completed their MFA in Dance at Bennington College and worked alongside Thomas F. DeFranz, Donna Faye Burchfield, Ric Allsop, VK Preston, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Julie Burelle and Yuchen Chang. He also graduated from the BFA in Contemporary Dance at Concordia University and took part in danceWEB’s 2022 program in Vienna.
