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Join us for the second annual Walmer Outdoor Movie Night in honour of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
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TAS and the Walmer Road Baptist Church are proud to host the second annual outdoor movie night featuring an Indigenous-made and Indigenous-themed film, as part of the Walmer Road Legacy Space. We’re thrilled to be partnering with the Toronto Outdoor Picture Show who helped to curate this year’s films.
Date: Sunday, September 29, 2024
Film: Wilfred Buck
Description:
“Moving between earth and stars, past and present, this hybrid feature documentary follows the extraordinary life of Wilfred Buck, a charismatic and irreverent Cree Elder who overcame a harrowing yet familiar history of displacement, racism and addiction by reclaiming ancestral star knowledge and ceremony.
Buck is humble, profound, funny, always real and a master storyteller. Narration taken from his autobiography condenses the loss and pain of his youth into powerful, Beat-like poetry. After his community in Northern Manitoba is forcibly relocated to make way for a hydroelectric dam, Buck’s family loses everything. He descends into the darkness of the city streets, surviving any way he can, until he reconnects with Elders who start him on a path that transforms his world. Driven by insatiable curiosity and instructed by dreams, Buck becomes a science educator and internationally respected star lore expert. His mission is sharing these life-changing teachings—as relevant and urgent today as ever—always guided by ceremony and anchored in the land.
Director Lisa Jackson deftly interweaves verité footage of Buck’s present with archival footage and cinematic, dramatized scenes from his past, painting a portrait of a beloved leader who now stands at the forefront of the resurgence of Indigenous ways of knowing.” – National Film Board of Canada
Venue: Walmer Road Baptist Church – parking lot. 38 Walmer Road in the Annex.
Admission: Free
Event details: Eats & Treats @ 6:30 pm
Showtime @ sundown (~ 7:30 pm)
Program runtime ~2 hours (including a short film)
Movie snacks and non-alcoholic drinks will be available for free. Cash donations will be accepted for the Native Canadian Centre.
BYO Chairs ** Please note the ground is hard gravel and so blankets are not recommended. Some chairs will be available to use during the event.
RSVP: We’d appreciate it if you could RSVP (but tickets are not required to attend): https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/walmer-road-outdoor-movie-night-tickets-1013675479647
Rain date: Monday, September 30
Accessibility: The film will be played with open captioning. Chairs are available for use. You can email us at engage@tasimpact.ca ahead of time and let us know and we will set one aside for you.
About the Walmer Legacy Space
The Walmer Road Legacy Space, which is located at the front of the church, aims to build cultural understanding and help create a path toward reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. It was created by TAS and the Walmer Road Baptist Church in collaboration with the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund.
