Secret Path Screening
Date: 17 Oct, 2025, Community: Wiarton
Category:
Arts & Heritage
Opening and Closing Times: Event begins at 3:30 p.m.
Admission Fees: No (free)
Adminssion Price: $0.00
The Secret Path is an animated film adaptation of Gord Downie's album and Jeff Lemire's graphic novel. Working with Downie's poetry and music, Lemire has created a powerful visual representation of the life of Chanie Wenjack. The film is divided into ten chapters, each a song from Downie's musical retelling of Chanie's story - from his escape from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School, to his subsequent and heartbreaking death from hunger and exposure to harsh weaher. The final product is a uniquely immersive emotional experience - an insight into the life of a little boy who, as Gord has said, he never knew, "but will always love."