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RDA 2023 Summer Newsletter: After three years in North Hastings, Ontario, we concluded this chapter of Countdown with the Stepping Stones Across The Shield Digital Story Event, which included video screenings and opening remarks from Site Coordinator Donna Reid.

Lots of gratitude and appreciation for the many people who have come together to produce the Pathways of Resistance Arts Festival this August 2023 in Killaloe, Ontario.

ReDefine Arts and Ottawa Valley Community Arts are seeking volunteers for the Pathways of Resistance Arts Festival coming to Killaloe, Ontario this August 2023.

New on the Countdown Story website: a resource page dedicated to providing support to survivors and those dedicated to ending gender-based violence.

New on the Countdown Story website: a monument map, visually indicating where all Countdown monuments can be found and visited in Ontario.

New on the Countdown Story website: a section dedicated to project impact. Now featured in that section is our 2020-2021 evaluation report, and the 50 minute KINSHIP podcast episode featuring members of the Countdown team.

ReDefine Arts is proud to partner with Lanark County Interval House to realize the Countdown Smiths Falls mosaic monument.

ReDefine Arts is hiring Community Arts Interns for the Countdown Public Art Project in North Hastings, Ontario.

ReDefine Arts looks forward to presenting DIGITAL STORIES: Building Cultures of Consent, an online showcase of digital art connected to our rural Ontario arts projects which are rooted in action to end gender-based violence through art-making and community-building.

RDA Fall 2022 Newsletter: Anna talks about an intense and rewarding summer working on the Renfrew County Inquest Public Art Response project in the Madawaska Valley.

We regret to announce that the planned unveiling of the new community-engaged pebble mosaic, set to be unveiled on September 29, 2022, has been postponed to May, 2023 during sexual assault awareness month. Read the full media release and watch a short commemorative video.

ReDefine Arts is proud to partner with many organizations to realize The Renfrew County Inquest Public Art Response. This project offers residents opportunities to make meaning of and respond to the triple femicide that took place on September 22, 2015 and the related 2022 CCO Inquest.