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XWAAQW’UM: WELCOME HOME
Directed by ALI HARRIS

Date
August 21, 2019
About Project
DIRECTOR
ALI HARRIS
COUNTRY
CANADA
RUNNING TIME
5 mins
YEAR
2016
LANGUAGE
English
ABOUT THE FILM
Last August, on the beach at Xwaaqw’um, also known at Burgoyne Bay, hundreds of people came together to witness the first raising of Coast Salish poles on Salt Spring Island since European contact. In this gentle and moving short film, a drumbeat holds us while Ron George sings and the elders speak and we witness together the slow and steady transformations in relationship that are happening in this place and feel the hope flowing from that. “The land is coming to life.”