Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

Event Description

Walking through the Fire is a collaborative and magical performance featuring award-winning First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists from across Canada, along with the BILLBOARD charting Sultans of String. The show is a blend of various musical styles, including Métis fiddling, East Coast Kitchen Party, Rumba, Rock, and the drumming of the Pacific Northwest. The performance features live artists on stage, including Alyssa Delbaere-Sawchuk of the Métis Fiddler Quartet, Ojibwe/Finnish Singer-Songwriter Marc Meriläinen (Nadjiwan), and Coast Tsm’syen Elder and Singer-Songwriter Shannon Thunderbird. The show aims to reveal the depths of contemporary Indigenous experience and music and to bring Indigenous and non-Indigenous people together in the spirit of the Truth and Reconciliation Commi... more...