Free Winnipeg Film Premiere- “Walking Through the Fire: Visual Album”

The Westworth United Church and 6x CFMA winners Sultans of String (featuring bandmate/Winnipeg son Drew Birston) are excited to announce the Winnipeg Premiere of Walking Through The Fire-Visual Album, a musical film experience unlike any other. This special film brings the magic of collaboration to the screen, with award-winning First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists from across Turtle Island/Canada.

This free Public Event will feature opening remarks with filmmaker/Sultans of String producer Chris McKhool and a post-screening Q&A with members of the band.

Walking Through The Fire won “Best Musical Film” and “Best Soundtrack” at the Cannes World Film Festival, as well as the Chicago Indie Film Awards for Best Composer!

Click here to watch the 2 min trailer https://youtu.be/wWSZUduo5Kk
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From Métis fiddling to an East Coast Kitchen Party, rumba to rock, to the drumming of the Pacific Northwest, experience the beauty and diversity of music from Turtle Island with Elder and poet Dr. Duke Redbird, the Métis Fiddler Quartet, Ojibwe/Finnish Singer-Songwriter Marc Meriläinen (Nadjiwan), Coast Tsm’syen Singer Shannon Thunderbird, The North Sound from the Prairies, Blues singer Crystal Shawanda, Heavy-Wood guitarist Don Ross, Northern Cree pow wow group, Dene singer-songwriter Leela Gilday, Inuit Throat Singers and more! 80 Minutes.

“The very fact that you’re doing this tells me that you believe in the validity of our language, you believe in the validity of our art and our music and that you want to help to bring it out. And that’s really what’s important, is for people to have faith that we can do this”
The Late Honourable Murray Sinclair, Ojibwe Elder and former chair of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission