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In honour of Orange Shirt Day, the Sexual Assault Centre Kingston and the Kingston Native Centre and Language Nest invite you to a free film screening of the documentary "Returning Home".📅 Date: September 30th
🕠 Time: 5:30pm
📍 Location: The Screening Room
🎟️ Free tickets are available on Eventbrite! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/939474753277?aff=oddtdtcreator "Skilfully intertwining narratives concerning residential school survivors and Indigenous peoples' relationship with imperiled wild Pacific salmon, Sean Stiller's stirring documentary is a revelatory testament to strength and resilience. At the heart of the film is Phyllis Jack-Webstad, the survivor who founded the Orange Shirt Day movement. While Phyllis recounts her childhood trials to youth across the country, her relations in the Secwépemc territory near Williams Lake are contending with another outcome of colonialism: the upper Fraser River's lowest salmon runs in Canadian history. In observing the interconnection between the Secwépemc and salmon, Stiller lays bare the impacts of overfishing on these communities. The first production by Canadian Geographic Films, Returning Home balances Stiller's stunning cinematography with clear-eyed testimonies to the unforgivable transgressions endured by Phyllis and other survivors within the walls of residential schools. Likewise, it effectively illustrates what it means to truly be in good relationship with the land and shares how, for the Secwépemc, healing people and healing the natural world are synonymous." —Vancouver International Film Festival #OrangeShirtDay #ReturningHome #FreeFilmScreening #KingstonEvents #EveryChildMatters
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Screening Room, 120 Princess Street,Kingston, Ontario, Canada
