Raise Her Up:
Celebrating The Power of Women Working Together

Bannerman Park - Wednesday, June 18 - 12PM to 2PM

A free concert & ceremony to unveil the Armine Nutting Gosling statue as the first to a singular named woman in the City of St. John’s!
Featuring performances by:
  • SNSB Dance Group
  • Spectrum Queer Choir
  • Lady Lupine
  • ANIL
  • St. John’s Women’s Mi’kmaw Circle
  • Kilautiup Songuninga
  • Votes for Women 100 Chorus

​Attendees are encouraged to bring their own chair or blanket.
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This event will run like the Regatta - if the weather is poor, we postpone to the next day.
St. John’s is home to a rich, diverse, and vibrant urban Indigenous community. Located on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Beothuk, the lands and waters in and around the City have traditionally served as a gathering place for the Mi’kmaq. The broader region of Newfoundland and Labrador continues to be home to diverse Indigenous Peoples, including First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. We honour and pay respect to the past, present, and future caretakers of these territories.

We also must acknowledge the labour theft extracted from people of African descent, used to build European wealth and economies globally, and in the Canadian nation state, including Newfoundland and Labrador’s shipbuilding and cod fishery industries, through the violence of trans-Atlantic enslavement.

We thank both First Light and the office of the Vice-Provost of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism at Memorial University for crafting and sharing these words that provide us with important perspectives.