Walking Through the Fire - Visual Album
Film World Premiere
Friday, November 1 · 8 - 10pm EDT
Cecil Community Centre - Toronto
Walking Through the Fire: Visual Album is a musical film experience unlike any other. From Métis fiddling to an East Coast Kitchen Party, rumba to rock, to the drumming of the Pacific Northwest, experience the beauty and diversity of music from Turtle Island with Elder and poet Dr. Duke Redbird, the Métis Fiddler Quartet, Ojibwe/Finnish Singer-Songwriter Marc Meriläinen (Nadjiwan), Coast Tsm’syen Singer Shannon Thunderbird, The North Sound from the Prairies, Blues singer Crystal Shawanda, Heavy-Wood guitarist Don Ross, Northern Cree pow wow group, Dene singer-songwriter Leela Gilday, Inuit Throat Singers and more, joined by Billboard charting/6x Canadian Folk Music Awards winners Sultans of String!
We will have opening remarks with Duke Redbird, Elder of the Global Village, and the Film will be followed by a Q&A panel with artists from the film including Dr. Duke Redbird, Shannon V Thunderbird, Marc Meriläinen, Alyssa Delbaere-Sawchuk, and filmmaker/bandleader/producer Chris McKhool.
Presented by Redbird Therapy Centre and Cecil Community Centre, with 100% of your ticket price donated to the Native Women's Resource Centre of Toronto.
"The place that we have to start is with truth. Reconciliation will come sometime way in the future, perhaps, but right now, truth is where we need to begin the journey with each other. As human beings, we have to acquire that truth”
Dr. Duke Redbird - Chippewa/Anishinaabe Elder and poet
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