{"id":56842,"date":"2019-03-18T14:09:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=56842"},"modified":"2019-03-18T14:34:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:34:59","slug":"brock-to-screen-award-winning-cheechoo-film-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/03\/brock-to-screen-award-winning-cheechoo-film-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock to screen award-winning Cheechoo film Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

A special screening of the award-winning film, <\/span>Moose River Crossing<\/span><\/em>, by Brock University Chancellor Shirley Cheechoo will take place on campus Friday, March 22.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cheechoo, who was <\/span>appointed to a second term<\/span><\/a> in her role with the University last June, will begin the evening by reading a passage from her play about residential schools, and will follow the film screening with a question-and-answer session with the audience. Drummers from the Niagara Women\u2019s Drum Group will also perform.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moose River Crossing<\/span><\/a><\/em> examines the residential school system through the eyes of six fictional former students who meet at a train station to head to a reunion. They flash back to the troubling times they experienced at the residential school and aim to answer the question of whether or not time heals all wounds.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cheechoo wrote the movie based on her own experience growing up in residential schools.<\/span><\/p>\n

The event starts at 6 p.m. in Sean O’Sullivan Theatre, with the question-and-answer session and drum performances following at 9 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cheechoo is an award-winning Cree actress, writer, producer, director and visual artist. She has been Brock Chancellor since July 2015, and was recently <\/span>awarded the Order of Canada<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

She is also the founder and executive director at <\/span>Weengushk Film Institute, a not-for-profit film and television training centre on Manitoulin Island that helps Indigenous and at-risk youth develop career skills or return to school. <\/span><\/p>\n

The event, which is open to the public, is hosted by Brock\u2019s Student Justice Centre in partnership with the University\u2019s Office of Human Rights and Equity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Admission is free and no advance tickets are required.<\/span><\/p>\n

Free parking is available in Zones 1 and 2 beginning at 6 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A special screening of the award-winning film, Moose River Crossing, by Brock University Chancellor Shirley Cheechoo will take place on campus Friday, March 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7484,3319,6833,1,4],"tags":[2582,3583,3262,1254],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56848,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56842\/revisions\/56848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}