is a very limited symbolic gesture.

it is a collaborative linear reading of the 2894 pages of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's report (2015).

2894 is about settlers' responsibility in the genocide that has been going on in canada for centuries and still is. it is not meant to undermine or erase the controversial aspects of this report.

2894 was initiated in 2016 and later received guidance from mixed-ancestry Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe Jenn Cole.

readings have taken place at people's homes in Canada and outside, in several churches in Toronto and Ottawa, during a prayer online international event, in the constituency office of a city councillor in Toronto, on radio, in a bookshop, in art spaces, during a FADO event in Toronto. more than 100 readers have taken part.

during the Canada Day 2018 reading at Trinity St-Paul's church in Toronto, 2894 brought to surface the systemic violence that affects Indigenous individuals every day: report.

2894 rules and invitation to read



photo by Henry Chan, at Occupy Toronto (2011)