Walking Through The Fire-Visual Album
On June 6th at 1:00pm, Luminato presents the Cannes World Film Festival winning “Walking Through The Fire-Visual Album” at the Harbourfront Studio Theatre. A musical film experience unlike any other from 6x CFMA winners Sultans of String, this Event will also feature opening remarks and post-film Q&A with filmmaker/Sultans of String producer Chris McKhool, along with Shannon Thunderbird & Kate Dickson and others from the project.
A central theme running through Walking Through The Fire: Visual Album is the need for the truth of Indigenous experience to be told before reconciliation can begin in earnest. Embedded in the title is the energy of rebirth: fire destroys, but it also nourishes the soil to create new growth, beauty, and resiliency. Walking Through The Fire ensures that we emerge on the other side together, stronger and more unified.
Sultans of String created this film in the spirit of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action, and Final Report that asks for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to work together as an opportunity to show a path forward. Says bandleader Chris McKhool (whose grandfather was a stowaway from Lebanon at the turn of the last century), “We know that as a society we can’t move ahead without acknowledging and reflecting on the past. Before reconciliation can occur, the full truth of the Indigenous experience in this country needs to be told, so we’ve been calling on Indigenous artists to share with us their stories, their experience, and their lives, so we settler Canadians can continue our learning about the history of genocide, residential schools, and of inter-generational impacts of colonization.”
“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
“The very fact that you’re doing this tells me that you believe in the validity of our language, you believe in the validity of our art and our music and that you want to help to bring it out. And that’s really what’s important, is for people to have faith that we can do this”
The Late Honourable Murray Sinclair, Ojibwe Elder and former chair of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
Film is 82 mins.
Click here to watch the 2 min trailer https://youtu.be/wWSZUduo5Kk
A central theme running through Walking Through The Fire: Visual Album is the need for the truth of Indigenous experience to be told before reconciliation can begin in earnest. Embedded in the title is the energy of rebirth: fire destroys, but it also nourishes the soil to create new growth, beauty, and resiliency. Walking Through The Fire ensures that we emerge on the other side together, stronger and more unified.
Sultans of String created this film in the spirit of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action, and Final Report that asks for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to work together as an opportunity to show a path forward. Says bandleader Chris McKhool (whose grandfather was a stowaway from Lebanon at the turn of the last century), “We know that as a society we can’t move ahead without acknowledging and reflecting on the past. Before reconciliation can occur, the full truth of the Indigenous experience in this country needs to be told, so we’ve been calling on Indigenous artists to share with us their stories, their experience, and their lives, so we settler Canadians can continue our learning about the history of genocide, residential schools, and of inter-generational impacts of colonization.”
“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
“The very fact that you’re doing this tells me that you believe in the validity of our language, you believe in the validity of our art and our music and that you want to help to bring it out. And that’s really what’s important, is for people to have faith that we can do this”
The Late Honourable Murray Sinclair, Ojibwe Elder and former chair of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
Film is 82 mins.
Click here to watch the 2 min trailer https://youtu.be/wWSZUduo5Kk
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