Red dresses will be displayed and a workshop will be held to recognize Red Dress Day.
The National Day of Awareness acknowledges and addresses many issues Indigenous communities face.
The Sarnia-Lambton Coordinating Committee on Violence Against Women (CCVAW) is partnering with Kettle and Stony Point and Aamjiwnaang First Nations to honour Red Dress Day.
On Friday, the free event will be held at The Centre at 145 Christina Street North.
CVVAW Coordinator Tracy Rogers said red dresses will be hung outside.
"It's basically for a reminder of the thousands of Indigenous daughters, sisters, mothers, aunties, grandmothers and two spirited family members and friends who have been a victim to violence and often abducted or assaulted or murdered without adequate investigation or justice," she said.
Rogers said a photographer from Aamjiwnaang First Nation will also take photos of women with a red hand painted over their mouths.
"[This] symbolizes the solidarity with Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman and Two Spirit, so two spirit and it basically represents the voices silenced by violence and to serve as a visual reminder of the crisis effecting Indigenous women in North America," she said. "The handprint is a powerful way to raise awareness and advocate for the justice for these women and girls and two-spirited people."
The event will also have a beading workshop, jingle dancers, corn soup samples and attendees will learn how make a red dress pin.
Rogers said registration for the workshop went well and they surpassed registration numbers.
This is the first year CCVAW has been involved with the awareness day.
"We wanted to show support that we support them and anything we can do to help in partnership," Rogers said.
The plan is for the CCVAW to remain partners to host an event to raise awareness for Red Dress Day.
It will be held from 1 p.m. until 7 p.m. with the dancers and soup starting at 6 p.m.
Red Dress Day is held annually on May 5.
The initiative started in 2010 as "an aesthetic response" to artist Jamie Black's Red Dress Project, which has been exhibited at more than 30 locations across the country.