I managed to make it over to the Dreamspeakers’s Festival Walk of Honour Festivities on my lunch break this afternoon. What a turnout, and what a cool event – I snapped some terrible cell phone pictures so you guys could check it out. I seriously would’ve stayed there all afternoon if I hadn’t had to go back to work. A giant barbeque, a bunch of great entertainment, and a chance to experience some breathtaking aboriginal culture that I, the whitest person alive, would probably not have had otherwise.
(The dancers especially blew my mind, and I’ll be trying to upload some shaky cell phone video of it later on this evening. If anybody makes it out to any of this weekend’s events, be sure to send us some descriptions, pictures or video! I’d love to see more.)
Anyway, if you’re downtown and get a chance, definitely swing by Beaver Hills House Park at Jasper and 105 St., and check out the shiny new Walk of Honour Display. Whoever designed it should be lauded – they’ve really made something important and spectacular – and the plaques all have really interesting biographies on these esteemed members of Canada’s aboriginal film community.
