Aether Rocero describes witnessing the alleged attack at the Lapu-Lapu Day festival, which left 11 people dead and dozens more injured, as "terrifying."

The now-graduated 17-year-old was one of many John Oliver Secondary School students in Vancouver who were affected by the incident — the school is located at East 43rd Avenue and Fraser Street, where a car drove into a crowd of people at the Filipino street festival on April 26.

But community members say students have found healing through connection — and art.

This fall, students will create a mural to cover the wall of the school's basketball and tennis courts, which overlook East 43rd Avenue.

"It reminds us that it's not just bad things that had happened on that street," said Rocero. "It's, in a way, reclaiming."

The mural will be

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