Does art offer the best path to heal historical wrongs?
The Secret Pathis a powerful film about an Indigenous boy who dies escaping a residential school. Does art films, books, and music offer the best path to heal historical wrongs?
More from this episode:
- Truth, Dialogue & Storytelling: PattiLaboucane-Bensonon art and healing
- IsGordDownie'sSecret Path 'the heart and essence of his age?'
- WatchGordDownie'sThe Secret Path tonight (Sunday Oct. 23) at 9PM
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Wenjack'sstory started an awakening that is still ongoing to this day. This week on the50thanniversary, it'sbeing retold in many ways, The Secret Path, a multimedia project byGordDownieis one of those ways.
The story of the residential schools has gone through a political transformation and it is increasingly surfacing in artfilms, books, music.
Our question: Does art perhaps offer the best path to heal historical wrongs?
Guests
JosephBoyden, award-winning author of many novels including Three Day Road and TheOrendaand most recentlyWenjackthe story ofChanieWenjackwho ran away from residential school and died of exposure in 1966.
Twitter:@josephboyden
SusanAglukark,Inuksinger and songwriter, winner of threeJuno awards and recipient of The Order of Canada in 2005.
Twitter: @S_Aglukark
Ry Moran, Director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba.
Twitter: @rymoran
KenCoates, Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation at theJohnson-ShoyamaGraduate School of Public Policy University of Saskatchewan.
Twitter: @kenscoates
Links & Articles
CBC.ca
- Secret Path
- Why all Canadians need to follow in the example of Gord Downie
- With Secret Path, Gord Downie is illuminating a way forward to Indigenous artists
- Meet the journalist who inspired Gord Downie and Joseph Boyden to write about Chanie Wenjack
- "I want the reader to be Chanie": Joseph Boyden tells Chanie Wenjack's story
- Gord Downie's Secret Path brings hope to Chanie Wenjack's family, 50 years after boy's death
- 'The most emotional thing I've ever done': Jeff Lemire on illustrating Gord Downie's Secret Path
- Chanie Wenjack: a 50-year-old tragedy rises up to inspire a new generation
- Arts in the North: the past will prepare youth for the future
- A reconciliation reading list: 15 must-read books
Maclean's
- The Lonely Death of Chanie Wenjack, by Ian Adams (Feb. 1, 1967)
- Joseph Boyden imagines Chanie Wenjack's final, terrible hours
- Winnipeg's new art project stares down racism in the face
Globe and Mail
- The author's novella Wenjack tells the story of an Objiwa boy who froze to death after fleeing a residential school
- We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice exposes Canada's barriers to reconciliation
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