How the Wake the Giant Music Festival welcomes Indigenous high school students to Thunder Bay – CBC

Sep 16, 2024

Students move hundreds of kilometres from home to complete high school

Thunder Bay’s Wake the Giant Music Festival has wrapped up for another year after welcoming hundreds of youth from northern communities who have moved to the city to attend high school.

Wake the Giant began in 2019 as a movement to make Thunder Bay more inclusive for Indigenous youth, in recognition of the challenges they face leaving their families behind to complete high school.

Headliners at this year’s festival included Walk Off the Earth, Galantis and Arkells.

Before the festival, students were invited to attend workshops at Dennis Franklin Cromarty (DFC), the city’s all-Indigenous high school, and participated in a scavenger hunt called the DFC Amazing Race to become more familiar with the city.

Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/wake-the-giant-music-festival-2024-1.7323900