Acclaimed Indigenous filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin presented this year’s Beatty Lecture at McGill’s Pollack Hall. The McGill event began with a welcome by the host of Ideas, Nahlah Ayed, and one by Principal Deep Saini. She uses silence as a way of learning, as a way of example for all of us,” said Blackstock. She saved my life.”Moving from darkness to light, Obomsawin brought her audience to a place of hope. Mobilizing Indigenous voicesMcGill Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic), Christopher Manfredi, closed the event with words of thanks and praise for Obomsawin.
