BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1857@events.nfb.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Regina:20250219T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Regina:20250219T143000 DTSTAMP:20241220T191408Z URL:https://events.nfb.ca/events/wilfred-buck-16/ SUMMARY:Wilfred Buck DESCRIPTION:The mâmawêyatitân centre invites everyone in the Regina area to a free community screening of:\n\nWILFRED BUCK\n\nDirected by Lisa Jac kson (2024\, 96 mins)\n\nHe’s from the “fresh-out-of-the-bush\, partly civilized\, colonized\, displaced people\,” and he’s here to take us to the stars. Lisa Jackson’s portrait of Cree Elder Wilfred Buck moves b etween earth and sky\, past and present\, bringing to life ancient teachin gs of Indigenous astronomy and cosmology to tell a story that spans genera tions. This hybrid feature documentary follows the extraordinary life of W ilfred Buck\, a charismatic and irreverent Cree Elder who overcame a harro wing yet familiar history of displacement\, racism and addiction by reclai ming ancestral star knowledge and ceremony.\n\nBuck is humble\, profound\, funny\, always real and a master storyteller. As a young man\, his commun ity in Northern Manitoba is forcibly relocated to make way for a hydroelec tric dam\, Buck’s family loses everything. He descends into the darkness of the city streets\, surviving any way he can\, until he reconnects with Elders who start him on a path that transforms his world.  Driven by ins atiable curiosity and instructed by dreams\, Buck becomes a science educat or and internationally respected star lore expert. His mission is sharing these life-changing teachings—as relevant and urgent today as ever—alw ays guided by ceremony and anchored in the land.\n\nAdapted from Buck’s rollicking memoir I Have Lived Four Lives\, director Lisa Jackson deftly interweaves verité footage of Buck’s present with archival footage and cinematic\, dramatized scenes from his past\, painting a portrait of a bel oved leader who now stands at the forefront of the resurgence of Indigenou s ways of knowing.\n\n---\n\nWatch the trailer at https://vimeo.com/942488 273\n\n---\nAbout Wilfred Buck:\nWilfred Buck is an Ininiw (Cree) astronom er\, author\, educator\, addictions consultant\, Knowledge Keeper and lect urer originally from Opaskwayak Cree Nation (OCN). He graduated from the U niversity of Manitoba with two degrees in Education and has 25 years of ex perience as an educator\, working with students from kindergarten to unive rsity. He also worked as a science facilitator for 15 years at the Manitob a First Nations Education Resource Centre\, where he did extensive researc h on Ininiw Acakosuk (Cree stars/constellations).\nCurrently\, Wilfred giv es planetarium presentations using his mobile planetarium\, in addition to lectures and keynote presentations on Indigenous astronomy and Indigenous worldviews. He is considered the foremost authority on Indigenous astrono my in the world.\nWilfred has written three books: Tipiskawi Kisik: Night Sky Star Stories (2018)\, the semi-autobiographical I Have Lived Four Live s (2021)\, on which Lisa Jackson’s documentary is based\, and Kitcikisik (Great Sky): Tellings That Fill the Night Sky (2021).\n \;\nAbout Lis a Jackson:\nLisa Jackson is an Anishinaabe filmmaker whose work has garner ed two Canadian Screen Awards\, been nominated for a Webby and screened at top festivals including Sundance\, Tribeca\, SXSW\, Berlinale and Hot Doc s. Her VR experience Biidaaban was viewed by more than 25\,000 people\, wh ile her film Indictment won Best Doc at imagineNATIVE and is one of CBC’ s top watched documentaries. She won the 2022 Chicken &\; Egg Award and the 2021 DOC Vanguard Award\, and has an MFA from York University.\n----- -------------------------------\n\nCo-presented with the Regina Public Lib rary. The screening will take place in the Multipurpose Room at the mâmaw êyatitân centre. All are welcome. No pre-registration is required. For m ore info contact mamaweyatitan@reginalibrary.ca ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://events.nfb.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05 /WilfredBuck_Wilfred_Buck_Eagle_Shirt-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Free Event,Screenings,Wilfred Buck LOCATION:mâmawêyatitân centre\, 3355 6th Ave\, Regina\, SK\, S4T 3H7\, C anada GEO:50.459667;-104.629738 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=3355 6th Ave\, Regina\, SK\ , S4T 3H7\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=mâmawêyatitân centre:geo: 50.459667,-104.629738 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Regina X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Regina BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20240220T130000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR