179-2016 : Laurier-led mural project promotes Indigenous education through community arts and youth cultural exchange

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Wilfrid Laurier University news release regarding the TAG project (Transformation Action Graffiti) will complete two large-scale murals by Chile’s famed Alapinta artists – one on Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, and one in the City of Brantford. Laurier faculty members Kim Anderson, Vanessa Oliver and Kari Brozowski, along with the university’s Aboriginal Student Support Co ordinator Bonnie Whitlow, are undertaking the project in partnership with Six Nations, the muralists from Chile, and the Escuela Mapuche in Chile. Two youth coordinators have been hired to assist, and a youth advisory council has been formed. Organizers are actively recruiting individuals aged 14 to 24 to take part in a weekend-long workshop series.

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Wilfrid Laurier University is a public university in Waterloo, Ontario. Laurier traces its roots to 1911 with the founding of the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary of Canada, the first Lutheran seminary in Canada.

As the seminary grew, it expanded teaching into new areas. From 1914-1929 it founded and operated Waterloo College School, an all-boys high school offering pre-theological education leading to senior matriculation. In 1924, the seminary expanded its higher education offerings when it established Waterloo College of Arts, a non-theological honours degree program affiliated with the University of Western Ontario. Waterloo College and Associate Faculties, offering science and engineering programs, was launched in 1956. Three years later, Waterloo College and Associate Faculties separated from Waterloo College and became incorporated as the University of Waterloo.

Also in 1959, the seminary received a revised charter from the Province of Ontario. The charter established Waterloo Lutheran University, a degree-granting university composed of two units – Waterloo University College (formerly Waterloo College) and Waterloo Lutheran Seminary (formerly the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary of Canada). In 1960, WLU ended its long-standing affiliation with the University of Western Ontario, and began to grant its own degrees.

On November 1, 1973, Waterloo Lutheran University became a public institution and was renamed Wilfrid Laurier University. Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, renamed Martin Luther University College in 2018, remains a federated college of the university.

In 1999 a second campus, Laurier Brantford, opened in Brantford, Ontario. In 2006 the Faculty of Social Work moved to a century-old building in downtown Kitchener.

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Waterloo, Ont.

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Sept. 9, 2016

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Murals
Wilfrid Laurier University - Special events
Anderson, Kim
Oliver, Vanessa
Brozowski, Kari
Whitlow, Bonnie

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179-2016

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News from Wilfrid Laurier University

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English

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Waterloo

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.4668 Longitude: -80.51639

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