Blood and Water Film Screening & Panel
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Tickets Required
Location: Westdale Theatre
Join us at the Westdale for a screening of Layla Staats’ film Blood and Water, which documents Staats’ path as a generational survivor of residential schools to reclaim her Mohawk identity. A panel discussion will follow and feature Staats, RBC Artist in Residence Melissa General, and Speakers of Truth.
Speakers of Truth is an ongoing series of ‘kitchen table’ talks led by Indigenous activists, protectors, and educators covering topics essential to Truth and Reconciliation.
From the Contemporary Art Collection
Resting with Warriors 2001
Shelley Niro (Mohawk b. 1954)
series of 4 woodcuts on wove paper, Purchase, Permanent Collection Fund, 2016
© Courtesy Shelley Niro