World Premiere of Doc DAY OF MY DEATH Set For Next Month

Dayle McLeod has announced the World Premiere of her personal documentary Day of My Death at the BLM Wildseed Center.

South African/Canadian actor Dayle McLeod did not know anything about her heritage until–her ancestors started appearing in her dreams instructing her to learn their mother tongue, Zulu, and travel to South Africa to undergo the rigorous rites of passage of the traditional healer or Sangoma.

This Short, Personal documentary shot on her iphone follows Dayle to S.A for the ‘Intwaso’ ceremony (‘Day of Your Death’) which takes three months to prepare for, under the strict and harsh tutelage of elder Sangomas.

Through undergoing this hero’s journey Dayle finds strength and wholeness that reverberates throughout her family and lineage.

Following the documentary will be a Panel Discussion on Ancestral Healing. The panel will be the Filmmaker, and Special Guests Ravyn Wngs & Makhosi Ingwe. The event takes place at The Black Lives Matter Wildseed Center in Toronto on Thursday Feb 5 2026.

Guests

Ravyn Wngz (Mohawk, lives and works in Toronto) “The Black Widow of Burlesque” is a Tanzanian, Bermudian, Mohawk, 2Spirit, Queer and Transcendent empowerment storyteller. Ravyn is an abolitionist and co-founder of ILL NANA/Diverse City Dance Company. She is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter Canada and a co-founder of the Wildseed Centre for Arts & Activism. A Canadian Best Selling Author, Top 25 Women of Influence in Canada recipient of 2021, Ravyn is committed to eradicating all forms of anti-Black racism, settler colonialism systems of oppression while nurturing Black and Indigenous healing in communities

Mkhulu Ingwe ya Mabalabala is a Sangoma, Gobela, Ancestral Anthropologist and Rituonographer working across Southern African and Afro-Caribbean spiritual lineages. His practice is grounded in ancestral instruction, divination, ritual discipline, and the ethical transmission of spiritual knowledge. Mkhulu Ingwe ya Mabalabala approaches ritual as a living mode of knowledge and remembrance. Attending to how lineage, instruction, and memory are carried through embodied practice, ceremony, storytelling, and restraint. His work restores relationships between Ancestors, body, and responsibility.

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