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URL:https://events.nfb.ca/events/wilfred-buck-17/
SUMMARY:Wilfred Buck
DESCRIPTION:The Aron Indigenous Circle invites everyone in the Campbellford
  area to a free community screening of:\n\nWILFRED BUCK\n\nDirected by Lis
 a Jackson (2024\, 96 mins)\n\nHe’s from the “fresh-out-of-the-bush\, p
 artly civilized\, colonized\, displaced people\,” and he’s here to tak
 e us to the stars. Lisa Jackson’s portrait of Cree Elder Wilfred Buck mo
 ves between earth and sky\, past and present\, bringing to life ancient te
 achings of Indigenous astronomy and cosmology to tell a story that spans g
 enerations. This hybrid feature documentary follows the extraordinary life
  of Wilfred Buck\, a charismatic and irreverent Cree Elder who overcame a 
 harrowing yet familiar history of displacement\, racism and addiction by r
 eclaiming ancestral star knowledge and ceremony.\n\nBuck is humble\, profo
 und\, funny\, always real and a master storyteller. As a young man\, his c
 ommunity in Northern Manitoba is forcibly relocated to make way for a hydr
 oelectric dam\, Buck’s family loses everything. He descends into the dar
 kness 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 b
 y insatiable curiosity and instructed by dreams\, Buck becomes a science e
 ducator and internationally respected star lore expert. His mission is sha
 ring these life-changing teachings—as relevant and urgent today as ever
 —always guided by ceremony and anchored in the land.\n\nAdapted from Buc
 k’s rollicking memoir I Have Lived Four Lives\, director Lisa Jackson d
 eftly interweaves verité footage of Buck’s present with archival footag
 e and cinematic\, dramatized scenes from his past\, painting a portrait of
  a beloved leader who now stands at the forefront of the resurgence of Ind
 igenous ways of knowing.\n\n---\n\nWatch the trailer at https://vimeo.com/
 942488273\n\n---\nAbout Wilfred Buck:\nWilfred Buck is an Ininiw (Cree) as
 tronomer\, author\, educator\, addictions consultant\, Knowledge Keeper an
 d lecturer originally from Opaskwayak Cree Nation (OCN). He graduated from
  the University of Manitoba with two degrees in Education and has 25 years
  of experience as an educator\, working with students from kindergarten to
  university. He also worked as a science facilitator for 15 years at the M
 anitoba First Nations Education Resource Centre\, where he did extensive r
 esearch on Ininiw Acakosuk (Cree stars/constellations).\nCurrently\, Wilfr
 ed gives planetarium presentations using his mobile planetarium\, in addit
 ion to lectures and keynote presentations on Indigenous astronomy and Indi
 genous worldviews. He is considered the foremost authority on Indigenous a
 stronomy in the world.\nWilfred has written three books: Tipiskawi Kisik: 
 Night Sky Star Stories (2018)\, the semi-autobiographical I Have Lived Fou
 r Lives (2021)\, on which Lisa Jackson’s documentary is based\, and Kitc
 ikisik (Great Sky): Tellings That Fill the Night Sky (2021).\n&nbsp\;\nAbo
 ut Lisa Jackson:\nLisa Jackson is an Anishinaabe filmmaker whose work has 
 garnered two Canadian Screen Awards\, been nominated for a Webby and scree
 ned at top festivals including Sundance\, Tribeca\, SXSW\, Berlinale and H
 ot Docs. Her VR experience Biidaaban was viewed by more than 25\,000 peopl
 e\, while her film Indictment won Best Doc at imagineNATIVE and is one of 
 CBC’s top watched documentaries. She won the 2022 Chicken &amp\; Egg Awa
 rd and the 2021 DOC Vanguard Award\, and has an MFA from York University.\
 n------------------------------------\n\nAll are welcome. No pre-registrat
 ion is required. For more info contact Katie at katie@arontheatre.com
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LOCATION:Aron Theatre Co-op\, 54 Bridge St East\, Campbellford\, ON\, K0L 1
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