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Team Reflections: Indigenous History Month
Featured Image: Vincent Design Team As an Indigenous-led company, we take pride in the diversity of our team. We have a talented team of Indigenous, and non-Indigenous creatives who help bring meaning to the good work that we do here at Vincent Design. To reflect, and honour Indigenous History Month, we asked people to participate …
Reflections with Serenity: Indigenous History Month
Featured image: Serenity Pangman At Vincent Design, we are grateful to work with a diverse group of Indigenous, and non-Indigenous team members. This month is National Indigenous History Month, and we sat down with Serenity, one of our Junior Graphic Designers to talk about her experiences, and the importance of Indigenous design. What was your …
National Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Featured image: Jewel Pierre-Roscelli, and Shaun Vincent Growing up, I wasn’t proud of my Indigenous identity. I would always tell people I was of a different ethnicity or culture. Intergenerational trauma due to colonization and the effects of residential schools left me with the shameful feeling and embarrassment of being Indigenous. It wasn’t until I …
Being A Good Relative
Featured image: Margaret Roscelli, Jewel’s Kunshi in her traditional wear for an interview for the Sakihiwe Festival A look at how Vincent Design celebrated Earth Day and reflections from Jewel. As a Dakota woman, I have often heard Elders and knowledge carriers saying our phrase of “Mitakuye Owasin.” In English, it roughly translates to “all …
Highlighting the helpers
Throughout December, we are sharing our community’s helpers. We are proud to have our offices located in Winnipeg’s Point Douglas neighbourhood, and have chosen to highlight the work they do here. If you want to learn more about them, their information is compiled below. Give them a follow, consider volunteering, or send along a donation …
No more stolen sisters
Friday’s Red Dress Day is a day set aside to honour Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2S+ and call attention to the 231 Calls for Justice imperative in ending the genocide against them. It’s everyone’s responsibility to learn about the issues – share what you have learned and also do what you can …
Celebrating the Season
Today, many of us will be attending a sacred fire and joining in community with friends and family to share stories, music, and good food. Solstice connects us to the land, its rhythms and cycles. We celebrate the season by decorating with cedar and other greenery. I’ll burn sage to smudge today, and also add it as an ingredient in my homemade tourtière. …
In pursuit of Truth and Reconciliation
September 30 will mark the first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. The new federal statutory holiday coincides with Orange Shirt Day, a day to honour children who were sent away to residential schools. September was referred to as “the crying month” by many, as it was the month that children were taken from their …
Never Letter Go: The Evolution of 765 Main Street
No building is ever completely finished. Our work here is only beginning. Vincent Design is for connection and communication, just like the mail that crossed the country when the first transcontinental railway was completed by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885. Winnipeg, as the Western Canadian rail hub, was an important part of Canada’s mail …