Wednesday May 20, 2026 | 7:00 pm Dinner Church with guest Anke Föller-Carroll
Join us for conversation, music, prayer, and a potluck meal with guest speaker Anke Föller-Carroll. Learn about Indigenous-settler relationships and local tourism opportunities to journey towards Truth and Reconciliation as good allies with integrity and a good mind.
Anke is a settler-immigrant from Germany, mom of two adult kids, and a lifelong traveller who made tourism her career for over 20 years before becoming a tourism educator. Her career focused in large part on managing foreign visitors’ vacations throughout Canada, and this is how she began to understand the potential of tourism as an educational tool to bring people together in peace, friendship and respect. But she also began to understand the immense barriers between Indigenous peoples and Canadian settlers, rooted in colonial history and ongoing oppressive systems. To explore how tourism can be a vehicle for decolonization and Truth and Reconciliation, Anke began her doctoral work in 2021. Her talk will examine Indigenous-settler relationships and offer ideas on how we, as settlers, can seize the opportunities of local tourism to learn and transform our minds, journeying towards Truth and Reconciliation as good allies with integrity and a good mind.
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