{"id":12318,"date":"2025-10-29T00:21:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niagarafolkartsfestival.ca\/festival\/?page_id=12318"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:16:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:16:05","slug":"reawakening","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/niagarafolkartsfestival.ca\/festival\/reawakening\/","title":{"rendered":"Reawakening: Stories by the Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reawakening:
\nStories by the Fire<\/h1>\n

Saturday, September 26 | 5:30 \u2013 8:00 p.m.
\nBall\u2019s Falls Conservation Area<\/h3>\n

This September, step away from the pace of everyday life and into the landscape for Reawakening: Sounds of the Fire to Fireside Storytelling \u2013 an immersive evening of Indigenous story, song, teachings, music, and sound.<\/p>\n

Gather around the fire, set your intentions and offer gratitude to All Our Relations before embarking on the Sounds of the Forest Sonic Trail. Following Twenty Mile Creek through the Carolinian Forest, the trail brings Indigenous voices, songs, and teachings into relationship with the land, water, trees, plants, and animals of Ball\u2019s Falls.<\/p>\n

Along the journey, contributions from Elder Dave Labb\u00e9, Joe Shawana, Quinna Hamby, and Grandmother Jackie Labonte and Nicole Joy-Fraser invite you to listen differently \u2013 to the forest, to the water, and to the stories held within the landscape.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The evening culminates around the fire with acclaimed Huron-Wendat violinist, composer and storyteller Genevi\u00e8ve Gros-Louis. Gros-Louis will share the Huron-Wendat Creation Story of Ya\u2019ta\u2019: Y\u00e4taentsic, Sky Woman, and the beginning of Turtle Island, along with Huron-Wendat story carried within the name of Lake Ontario, Ontari\u2019io.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"Reawakening:<\/a><\/span><\/div>