Looking for something fun to do this month? Quizzing & Quarantine is hosting special trivia nights, presented by our friends at Steam Whistle Brewing. Taking place every Friday at 8pm EST, these nights are free to join!
How Does Online Trivia Work?
Rally friends and family (virtually) to form a trivia team. Clever team names encouraged. We suggest setting up a group chat in advance to discuss answers during the events.
Join 8pm EST every Friday in February – 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th.
Flex your trivia knowledge to earn points and the chance to win prizes from Steam Whistle & DWF.
Open your hearts and pledge donations while learning about DWF. A donation page has been set up here.
So (virtually) grab your friends and family, and play along We hope to see you there!
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Join us on Oct. 17th for dinner and listen to The Hip with fellow fans, ask us about our Legacy Space and enjoy the national launch to Secret Path Week. To learn more email info@barringtonsteakhouse.ca
Support DWF in Halifax at the Barrington Steakhouse during Secret Path Week by visiting barringtonsteakhouse.ca. Make a donation online through our website to the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund of $50 or more and we will mail you a $25 gift card (please leave a mailing address in the special instructions).
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Now in its 2nd year at The Rose, LEGACY returns with boundary-pushing contemporary folk duo Twin Flames, Chelsey June (Métis) and Jaaji (Inuk, Mohawk). In his final days, Canadian icon Gord Downie spent his time shining a light on reconciliation with Canada’s First Peoples. Join in our collective reconciliation to promote awareness, education, and thoughtful action. Storytelling and performance come together in this moving concert featuring original music by Twin Flames, with songs that incorporate both Western and traditional music, along with favourite Gord Downie and Tragically Hip songs.
LEGACY SPACE
The Rose is proud to be an official partner of the Legacy Spaces Program
***We are calling on our community to submit a video of YOU performing your favourite Gord Downie/Tragically Hip songs and/or poems! More info below***
A HOT TICKET FREE ONLINE EVENT
SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER AT 7PM
FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, St. Catharines, ON
With the passing of Gord Downie on 17 October 2017, Canadians lost one of our most beloved music icons.
Gord spent his final days shining a light on the reconciliation with this country’s First Peoples. He asked all Canadians to join the call to action. For the past few years, the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre (PAC) has been honoured to host a group of Canadian artists who have joined our collective reconciliation journey with a concert to promote awareness, education and thoughtful action. This year, with the current realities, we have moved the program online.
We will be inviting special guest artists to share their favourite songs with us. Previous guests have included Tom Wilson, Danny Michel, Royal Wood and more!
We are also calling on our community to submit a video of YOU performing your favourite Gord Downie/Tragically Hip songs and/or poems!
We will choose video submissions to share as part of our virtual concert on Saturday 17 October along with live performances by artists who have been part of previous Gord’s Legacy concerts. We will provide a $75 honorarium to each of the chosen local submissions that will be aired. Local artists who submit a video will also be considered to perform live at future Gord’s Legacy concerts. The goal of this event is to provide an opportunity for a diverse, cross-section of amateur and professional musicians to share in honouring Gord Downie’s music, poetry and artistic work.
This concert has been an opportunity for our community to come together to raise funds in support of the PAC’s ongoing commitment to the DOWNIE WENJACK FUND.
Inspired by the tragic story of a child who perished in attempts to return home from a Residential School and Gord Downie’s call to build a better Canada, the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund (DWF) aims to build cultural understanding and create a path toward reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. The goal is to help improve the lives of Indigenous people by building awareness, education, and connections between all Canadians on the true history of Indigenous people in our country.
Secret Path Week is a national movement commemorating the legacies of Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack, and takes place annually from October 17-22. This is a meaningful week as October 17th and 22nd respectively mark the dates that Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack joined the spirit world. We call on all Canadians to use Secret Path Week to answer Gord Downie’s call to action, to “Do Something” by creating a reconciliACTION and furthering the conversation about the history of Residential Schools.
We encourage you to make a donation and tune in to the event LIVE!
This HOT TICKET presentation by the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre is part of our year-round commitment to Celebration of Nations Indigenous featured programming sponsored by Brock University.
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A fundraising concert in support of The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund, we welcome you to join Tom Wilson, Twin Flames, Phil Davis’ Drum Circle and Hoop Dancer, Kevin Fox and more for a special evening to celebrate the man, the music, and his enduring legacy.
In his final days, Canadian icon Gord Downie spent his time shining a light on reconciliation with Canada’s First Peoples. Performing their own versions of your favourite Gord Downie / Tragically Hip songs, and telling stories, these artists will join in our collective reconciliation journey to promote awareness, education, and thoughtful action.
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Featuring Mike Downie, award-winning documentary filmmaker and co-founder of the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack fund, plus special musical guest, William Prince.
Let’s come together in the spirit of reconciliation and hope on Orange Shirt Day!
This event will inspire and entertain you. Join us live and IG Wealth Management will make a $20 donation* on your behalf to the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund.
– Hear how Mike and his brother, Gord Downie, started the Secret Path project to tell the story of Chanie Wenjack.
– Enjoy music by Juno Award-winning artist, William Prince from the Peguis First Nation
– Discover what Mike thinks Canadians like you can do to become an ally for people affected by residential schools
*IG Wealth Management will donate $20 per live event attendee to the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund, up to a maximum donation of $40,000.
Speakers
Mike Downie Award-winning documentary filmmaker and the co-founder of the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund
A celebrated and inspirational storyteller, Downie takes his audiences on a ride that explores how our stories define us, remind us of our past, and shape our future, both as individuals and as a nation.
One story in particular has been life-changing for Downie — Chanie Wenjack, an Ojibway boy who died while running away from his residential school. Downie told the tragic tale to his brother Gord and the two vowed to find a way to share this story with the world.
Before his career in film and television, Downie worked as a deep shaft miner in Northern Ontario; a medical researcher at McGill University; a junior economist in Toronto; and as a windsurfing instructor in the US Virgin Islands. He holds a Bachelor of Science with Honours from Queen’s University, and an MBA from York University’s Schulich School of Business.
“Gord and I spent our lives learning, again and again, the power in a story, everyone’s story.”
William Prince Canadian Juno award-winning country-folk Singer/Songwriter
William Prince rose to national attention when his debut alburm, Earthly Days, won the Juno Award for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year in 2017.
A member of the Peguis First Nation near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Prince is also a part-time member of the indigenous rock group, Indian City, with whom he recorded and performed prior to his solo success. Prince counts Chief Peguis as a direct ancestor. His father was a preacher and a musician, and many of his first musical experiences are rooted in playing alongside his father in church.
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National Indigenous History Month is a 30-day celebration of Indigenous people, culture, and heritage.
Through four virtual events, we will be highlighting Indigenous artists and communities from coast to coast. Join us as we come together to share history, culture, and music through special features from communities across Canada.
National Indigenous History Month is a 30-day celebration of Indigenous people, culture, and heritage.
Through four virtual events, we will be highlighting Indigenous artists and communities from coast to coast. Join us as we come together to share history, culture, and music through special features from communities across Canada.
National Indigenous History Month is a 30-day celebration of Indigenous people, culture, and heritage.
Through four virtual events, we will be highlighting Indigenous artists and communities from coast to coast. Join us as we come together to share history, culture, and music through special features from communities across Canada.
DWF would like to thank our Community Event Partner TD for their support through the TD Ready Commitment.
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National Indigenous History Month is a 30-day celebration of Indigenous people, culture, and heritage.
Through four virtual events, we will be highlighting Indigenous artists and communities from coast to coast. Join us as we come together to share history, culture, and music through special features from communities across Canada.
Join us on Oct. 17th for dinner and listen to The Hip with fellow fans, ask us about our Legacy Space and enjoy the national launch to Secret Path Week. To learn more email 
***We are calling on our community to submit a video of YOU performing your favourite Gord Downie/Tragically Hip songs and/or poems! More info below***
