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March 22, 2012 from 7pm to 9pm – Emily Carr University of Art and Design Readings by Lee Maracle & Michael BlackstockScreening of Samaqan: Water Stories, with Director Jeff BearLee Maracle, granddaughter of Chief Dan George, is one of the most prolific aboriginal auth… Organized by Rita Wong | Type: readings, &, film, screening
May 5, 2012 from 12pm to 1:15pm – Pacific Cinémathèque In May of 1982, one of the very first occupy movements began quite humbly outside the perimeter fence of the US Army base in Berkshire, England. 250 women arrived to protest the installation of cruis… Organized by DOXA (Dana, Community Engagement Committee, please email me for more details or other film suggestions) | Type: documentary, film, screening
May 5, 2012 from 12pm to 1:30pm – Vancity Theatre Family and culture combine to poignant and frequently hilarious effect as Tlingit businessman Cory Mann finds his way from selling underpants in China to smoking fish at his family’s traditional fish… Organized by DOXA (Dana, Community Engagement Committee, please email me for more details or other film suggestions) | Type: documentary, film, screening
May 5, 2012 from 6pm to 7:30pm – Pacific Cinémathèque Half a world away from Tahrir Square, an octogenarian from Boston tends to his orchids and struggles to make sense of the “interwebs”. His name is Gene Sharp and he hardly seems like a dangerous man.… Organized by DOXA (Dana, Community Engagement Committee, please email me for more details or other film suggestions) | Type: documentary, film, screening
May 5, 2012 from 9pm to 11pm – Vancity Theatre A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle For a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to clima… Organized by DOXA (Dana, Community Engagement, please email me for more details or other film suggestions) | Type: documentary, film, screening
May 7, 2012 from 7pm to 8:15pm – Pacific Cinémathèque An experimental documentary that contemplates the signs of loss and change in the American South as potent metaphors of personal and collective destiny. Some eleven years in the making, Robert Person… Organized by DOXA (Dana, Community Engagement, please email me for more details or other film suggestions) | Type: documentary, film, screening
May 9, 2012 from 7pm to 8:30pm – Empire Granville 7 Cinemas “No water, no life,” is the point that Jessica Yu’s new film makes in a global jaunt from Australia to Las Vegas. For a film that is essentially another nail in the coffin of human society, Last Call… Organized by DOXA (Dana, Community Engagement Committee, please email me for more details or other film suggestions) | Type: documentary, film, screening
May 11, 2012 from 1pm to 2pm – Pacific Cinémathèque In 2006, a diverse group of indigenous and immigrant youth came together to create a play based on a satire of the Japanese cult cooking show Iron Chef. Under the no-nonsense rule of director Elaine… Organized by DOXA (Dana, Community Engagement Committee, please email me for more details or other film suggestions) | Type: documentary, film, screening
May 11, 2012 from 9pm to 10:15pm – Empire Granville 7 Cinemas Tree planting is one of the most physically and mentally demanding jobs in Canada. Alone, working long days in desolate cut blocks, backing sun, rain storms, snow covered tents, bears, and endless bo… Organized by DOXA - Dana, community engagement (please email me if you want more information) | Type: documentary, film, screening
November 1, 2012 from 7pm to 9:30pm – The Ridge Theatre WHAT: Fundraising reception and premier Vancouver screening of The Apple Pushers – an award-winning, thought provoking film about important issues affecting our food system. The movie follows immigra… Organized by The World In A Garden | Type: kitsilano, fundraiser, film, screening
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Local, organic, rural, and/or urban, food production is a mainstay of life, and doing it well leads to wellness. From farm to kitchen, discussions relating to food--and the community arising around it--belong here.
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If you have to leave your village, how will you get where you want to go? By car? Preferably not, both for your wallet and the earth’s sake. This category is for all discussions relating to how we all get around.
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A human right? After food, most feel shelter is the most important necessity. A place of shelter is also the start of a community. This category is for all things relating to shelter, housing, affordable housing, homes, renewable heating systems, green buildings, heritage, and our built environment in general.
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