Name: Tess’s Red Dress: Honouring Love and Family with Carolyn Roberts
Start: 2026-04-12T11:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-04-12T12:00:00-07:00
Location: Massy Books

Tess’s Red Dress: Honouring Love and Family  with Carolyn Roberts

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Join Massy and Medicine Wheel as we host Carolyn Roberts for the Launch of "Tess’s Red Dress: Honouring Love and Family" on sun, April 12th

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Book Launch: Tess’s Red Dress: Honouring Love and Family with Carolyn RobertsSunday, April 12th at 11 am, Massy Books, 229 E. Georgia St., Vancouver, BCJoin Massy Books and Medicine Wheel Publishing as we host St’at’imc and Sto:lo author Carolyn Roberts for the Launch of "Tess’s Red Dress: Honouring Love and Family." Children welcome, snacks will be provided.Now joining us is joining us is Lorelei Williams, founder of Butterflies in Spirit - a dance group created to empower Indigenous women and raise awareness about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Her work is deeply personal, honouring her Aunt Belinda Williams, who went missing in 1978, and her cousin Tanya Holyk, who was a victim of Robert Pickton in 1996.We’re also honoured to be welcomed in a good way by χʷəy̓ y̓ χʷiq̓ q̓ tən / Audrey Siegl , a member of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking Musqueam people, who works with teachings &amp; medicines passed on to her from her Musqueam family and ancestors.Morning pastries, juice boxes, coffee and tea will be provided. Registration is required and is expected to fill up quickly, so make sure to get your tickets soon! Books will be for sale at the event.For accessbility information on our store, please view <a href="https://www.massybooks.com/accessibility/" title="https://www.massybooks.com/accessibility/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">HERE</a>The venue has a gender neutral bathroom.Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes.Covid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are recommended. We ask if you are showing symptoms, that you stay home. Thank you kindly.The Book:Using age-appropriate and empathetic language, Tess’s Red Dress introduces young children to Red Dress Day and the importance of remembering the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2 Spirit People. Backmatter pages include resources to support parents and educators through this important and difficult conversation with their children. Six year old Tess is excited to welcome her new baby sibling into the world! She asks her mom what it was like growing up with a sibling. Tess’s mom tells her stories about baking in the kitchen, singing loudly in the bathtub, sharing a bedroom, and braiding her sister’s hair. Despite their excitement over their growing family, they have experienced loss: her Auntie is one of the missing. The loss of any family member makes a drastic change for those left behind and the generations to come. As the family gets ready for the Red Dress Day march, Tess's mom and dad show her how to honour her Auntie by wearing her red dress and keeping the stories and memories of her family alive.Author:Carolyn Roberts is a renowned educator, speaker and storyteller with a wealth of experience and expertise in Indigenous education and decolonization. She is a St’at’imc and Sto:lo woman belonging to the Thevarge family from N'quatqua Nation and the Kelly Family from the Tzeachten Nation and a member of the Squamish Nation. Throughout her illustrious career as an educator and administrator for over 20 years, she has consistently demonstrated a passion for supporting Indigenous resurgence through education. Currently Carolyn holds the position as an Indigenous academic and Faculty Lecturer in the Teacher Education Department of the University of British Columbia. Her dedication to building teachers’ understandings in Indigenous history, education, and ancestral ways of knowing has not only garnered her recognition within the education community, but it has also had a positive impact on the decolonizing of the education system.

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