Join us for DWF LIVEs on our Facebook page and YouTube channel throughout Secret Path Week (Oct. 17 - 22)! Check out our exciting events for Wednesday, October 19: 10 AM ET - Drew Hayden Taylor is Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations in Ontario. He has been an award-winning playwright, a journalist/columnist, short-story writer, novelist, television scriptwriter, and has worked on numerous documentaries exploring the Native experience. 11:30 AM ET - David Robertson @davidrobertsonwriter is a member of Norway House Cree Nation and currently lives in Winnipeg. He is the author of numerous books, including 'On the Trapline', a beautiful picture book which was included in this year’s Legacy Schools Booster Toolkit. The book celebrates Indigenous culture and traditions, and won David’s second Governor General’s Literary Award and was named one of the best picture books of 2021 by the CCBC, The Horn Book, New York Public Library, Quill & Quire, and American Indians in Children’s Literature. 1 PM ET - Cheri Maracle is a multi-award nominated actress, singer/songwriter, and playwright of the Six Nations of the Grand River lands. Cheri has numerous stage, TV, and film credits to her name. Cheri recently wrote a children’s show ‘The Friendship Star’, and also fronts a jazz band, the Cheri Maracle Quintet, whom she’s performed with all over Turtle Island. 2 PM ET - G.R. Gritt @grgritt is a Juno Award-winning, Two-Spirit, Transgender, Francophone, Anishinaabe/Métis artist. G.R. Gritt pulls effortlessly from the past to create soulful futurisms with their new sound that elegantly weaves the melodies using vocals, guitar and new electronic elements. They create both intimate and anthemic music that would fit in a folk club, a dance club and anywhere in between. To register for any of these sessions are more, please visit https://downiewenjack.ca/dwflive/register/