LEGACY featuring Kevin Hearn (Barenaked Ladies) & Josh Finlayson (Skydiggers) of Gord Downie’s Secret Path Band and more

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The Rose performing arts venue in Brampton, Ontario presents LEGACY on Thursday, October 21st at 8:00pm ET. Now in its third year at the Rose, LEGACY combines storytelling and performance as part of our collective reconciliation journey. The evening will feature Kevin Hearn (Barenaked Ladies) & Josh Finlayson (Skydiggers) of Gord Downie’s Secret Path Band, along with Tom Wilson, Logan Staats, Derek Miller, and many more. Purchase your physical tickets or livestream access here. Be sure to visit the DWF Legacy Space before the show! 

Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre Roundtable Discussion

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The Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre is the first health centre in Canada to create a Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund (DWF) Legacy Space. In honour of Secret Path Week, they will host a virtual round table discussion of the Secret Path film, the ongoing legacy of residential schools, Indigenous resilience, and reconciliation.   

Moderated by Indigenous Patient Navigator, Roberta Manitowabi, and Chief of Oncology and Legacy Space champion Dr. Matthew Follwell, this panel discussion will include: Mike Downie, co-founder and Board Member of DWF and co-creator of the Secret Path project; Stuart Coxe, journalist, filmmaker, producer of the Secret Path film, and DWF Board Secretary; Jeannette Corbiere Lavell, teacher, advocate, champion of Indigenous rights, and founder of the Ontario Native Women’s Association; and Yvonne Brunelle, MSW and registered Psychotherapist, and co-developer of the Trauma Recovery program at Enaahtig Healing Lodge. Join us on Microsoft Teams Live Monday, October 18th from 12:00pm to 1:30pm ET.  

FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre – Gord’s Legacy: A Free Virtual Concert Experience to Honour the Life and Work of Gord Downie

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The FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre will host Gord’s Legacy: A Free Virtual Concert Experience to Honour the Life and Work of Gord Downie on Sunday, October 17th at 7:00pm ET. The event will feature musicians from across the country performing their favourite Gord Downie and Tragically Hip songs to raise funds for their Legacy Space, and will feature an appearance from Sarah Midanik, President & CEO of DWF. Tune in here to watch! 

Secret Path Week Kick-Off at The Barrington Steakhouse

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Join us on Oct. 17th for dinner and listen to The Hip with fellow fans, ask us about our Legacy Space and enjoy the national launch to Secret Path Week. To learn more email info@barringtonsteakhouse.ca

Support DWF in Halifax at the Barrington Steakhouse during Secret Path Week by visiting barringtonsteakhouse.ca. Make a donation online through our website to the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund of $50 or more and we will mail you a $25 gift card (please leave a mailing address in the special instructions).

 

Tragically Hip – Downie Wenjack Tribute Show

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Mourning Wood honors Gord Downie’s legacy by performing a Tragically Hip tribute show (live streamed from On The Rocks: https://youtu.be/NH_M0plEjLw) with all money raised donated to the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund.
Online auction items will be posted on this page a few days before the show and remain open until Secret Path Week concludes on October 22.
Please send donations via: https://downiewenjack.ca/support-us/

LEGACY – Featuring Twin Flames

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Now in its 2nd year at The Rose, LEGACY returns with boundary-pushing contemporary folk duo Twin Flames, Chelsey June (Métis) and Jaaji (Inuk, Mohawk). In his final days, Canadian icon Gord Downie spent his time shining a light on reconciliation with Canada’s First Peoples. Join in our collective reconciliation to promote awareness, education, and thoughtful action. Storytelling and performance come together in this moving concert featuring original music by Twin Flames, with songs that incorporate both Western and traditional music, along with favourite Gord Downie and Tragically Hip songs.

LEGACY SPACE

The Rose is proud to be an official partner of the Legacy Spaces Program

Jessica Perritt – Exploring By The Seat Of Your Pants

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Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants is an organization which knocks down classroom walls and take students anywhere in the world, never having to leave their desks. It aims to inspire the next generation of students by bringing science, exploration, adventure, and conservation into classrooms through virtual speakers and field trips with leading experts across the globe.

For Secret Path Week, Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants will be focusing on Indigenous education featuring Indigenous scientists, explorers, artists, activists, and speakers.  This will be a valuable way to engage your class in reconciliation and encourage your students to “Do Something”!

Jessica is the Sr. Advisor of Indigenous Knowledge at the NWMO and has been instrumental in creating the NWMO’s Indigenous Knowledge policy, upcoming Reconciliation Policy, and liaising with the Council of Elders and Youth. She is member of the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation and a proud Anishnawbekwe (Ojibway women). Her formal education is within western science majoring in Physics and Mathematics and has also received Indigenous education from Elders and knowledge keepers throughout her life. Jessica has brought respect for Indigenous knowledge and worldview to life at the NWMO and her next big project is helping the NWMO take further steps towards its journey in reconciliation, a true example for the rest of Canada.

 

 

Chelsea Vowel – Exploring By The Seat Of Your Pants

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Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants is an organization which knocks down classroom walls and take students anywhere in the world, never having to leave their desks. It aims to inspire the next generation of students by bringing science, exploration, adventure, and conservation into classrooms through virtual speakers and field trips with leading experts across the globe.

For Secret Path Week, Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants will be focusing on Indigenous education featuring Indigenous scientists, explorers, artists, activists, and speakers.  This will be a valuable way to engage your class in reconciliation and encourage your students to “Do Something”!

Chelsea Vowel is Métis from manitow-sâkahikan (Lac Ste. Anne) Alberta, residing in amiskwacîwâskihikan (Edmonton). Mother to six girls, she has a BEd, an LLB, and a MA, and is a Cree language instructor at the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Chelsea is a public intellectual, writer, and educator whose work intersects language, gender, Métis self-determination, and resurgence. Author of Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada, she and her co-host Molly Swain produce the Indigenous feminist sci-fi podcast Métis in Space, and co-founded the Métis in Space Land Trust. Chelsea blogs at apihtawikosisan.com and makes legendary bannock.

 

 

Angela Miracle Gladue – Exploring By The Seat Of Your Pants

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Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants is an organization which knocks down classroom walls and take students anywhere in the world, never having to leave their desks. It aims to inspire the next generation of students by bringing science, exploration, adventure, and conservation into classrooms through virtual speakers and field trips with leading experts across the globe.

For Secret Path Week, Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants will be focusing on Indigenous education featuring Indigenous scientists, explorers, artists, activists, and speakers.  This will be a valuable way to engage your class in reconciliation and encourage your students to “Do Something”!

Angela is a dancer, choreographer, educator, and artist from Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta – Treaty 6 territory) and is a member of Frog Lake First Nation. She has over 15 years of professional dance experience as an entertainer and has taught in countless schools, Indigenous communities, youth centres and conferences throughout North America since 2004.

Angela believes in a responsibility to share the knowledge she has gained and continues to pursue dance education while using her existing skills to mentor others so they can succeed. Currently, Angela tours with the Juno Award-winning group A Tribe Called Red and is available for performance opportunities, teaching & speaking engagements.

 

Theland Kicknosway – Exploring By The Seat Of Your Pants

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Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants is an organization which knocks down classroom walls and take students anywhere in the world, never having to leave their desks. It aims to inspire the next generation of students by bringing science, exploration, adventure, and conservation into classrooms through virtual speakers and field trips with leading experts across the globe.

For Secret Path Week, Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants will be focusing on Indigenous education featuring Indigenous scientists, explorers, artists, activists, and speakers.  This will be a valuable way to engage your class in reconciliation and encourage your students to “Do Something”!

Theland Kicknosway is a member of Wolf Clan, of the Potawatami and Cree Nation, from Walpole Island, Bkejwanong Territory in Southern Ontario. He is currently in high school in the Ottawa Region and enjoys offering his gifts of song, dance and voice for all. He is a singer, a grass and hoop dancer, and helps in ceremonies in many places. In November 2015, at just 12 years old, Theland led the incoming Prime Minister and cabinet into the swearing-in ceremony with a drum song.

He has offered his voice and songs for the Indian Residential School Survivors in 2008 and in the closing of the TRC in 2015, and has been a Kairos Blanket Exercise Facilitator for the past seven years. Theland completed his 6th annual MMIWG2S run in Spring 2020 in partnership with Families of Sisters in Spirit, raising awareness of the children left behind in the wake of this crises. He hopes to expand his run to a national scale, and is preparing to run from Victoria, BC to Ottawa, ON in 2021.