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Dear Friends of SJS,
Please check out some of these great upcoming events and initiatives:
signup by June 1st:
Applied Theatre for Community Building A Collaborative & Educational Workshop Friday June 3 (5:30-‐9:00pm) & Saturday June 4 (9:30-‐4:30pm) Inter-‐Cultural Association of Greater Victoria (see attached poster)
June 2nd:
94 Calls for Justice: The Journey to Reconciliation Starts HereAn event to mark the one-year anniversary of the TRC's Call to Action11:30-1:00 pm BC Legislature(see attached poster)
June 17th:
African Heritage Association of Vancouver Island present
African Refugee Day (see attached poster)5:30 to 9:00 pmVictoria City Hall
Powerful UVIC women's film seeking support
UVIC faculty members Christine Welsh (Gender Studies) and Elizabeth Vibert (History) are in the final stages of completing an inspiring and timely film about women's search for food justice in the Global South.
The Thinking Garden is a 35-minute documentary about a remarkable group of older women in a rural village in South Africa who... came together in the dying days of apartheid to create a community garden. It's an inspiring story of courage, determination and resilience that shows just what can happen when older women decide to take matters into their own hands. Filmed on the eve of the epic drought now gripping southern Africa, The Thinking Garden tells the story, in the women's own voices, of how their garden has helped them confront the challenges of drought, climate change, poverty and HIV/AIDS and has created hope and a measure of food security in their community.
Christine and Elizabeth have launched an on-line fundraising campaign to raise the final infusion of funds to complete the film. To make a donation, please visit https://igg.me/at/thinkinggarden And be sure to check out the short compilation of selected scenes from The Thinking Garden. The film will launch later this summer. Please spread the word!
Pacific Peoples' Partnership Campaign
HALFWAY THROUGH OUR
CAMPAIGN!
There are 15 days left to
donate! Pacific Peoples' Partnership (PPP) greatly appreciates the
generous contributions that have been made. We are very excited to
be welcoming our guests from Papua New Guinea (PNG) in less than a
month!
DONATE NOW!
PNG ARTIST KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
In June 2016, Pacific Peoples' Partnership will have the honor of hosting three distinguished artists from the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, as well as several artists from surrounding communities, on the ancestral lands of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ people. These artists, who have the potential to form a bridge between North and South communities through art and storytelling, will have the opportunity to engage in critical dialogue on themes pressing to each community. We are committed to ensuring each artist is well taken care of during this exchange.
This exchange has been made possible through the generosity of those around us.
Our community has shown exceptional generosity throughout the planning process by offering time, accommodation, food, program opportunities and gifts towards this exchange. We are confident that our guests will have an outstanding experience. As an organization, it is important to us that we appropriately compensate the contributions made by community members, and have resources at our disposal to ensure that any programming we facilitate is accessible to everyone in the community.
We are seeking to raise an additional $5000 to bring this event to its full potential.
This money will be put towards compensating the host family, local artists and elders, providing food for community events and honouring participants through an exchange of gifts.
Please support us by
donating to this crowdfunding campaign. As a token of our appreciation, we will
send you a special gift.
DONATE NOW!
Sepik Suspension Hook up for auction!
This beautiful piece will be up for auction at Alcheringa Gallery to help raise funds for this knowledge exchange. The bidding will start at $900.00, and an instant buy price has been set at $2,000.00. If you are interested in purchasing this carving, or making a bid please visit this link or contact Alcheringa Gallery directly.
Alcheringa Gallery
621 Fort Street
Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 1G1
Phone: (250) 383-8224
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Website: http://www.alcheringa-gallery.com/contacts/
Hay'sxw'qa! (Thank you!)
We would like to acknowledge and express gratitude to the host nations, the Songhees, Esquimalt, Tsawout, Tsartlip, Tseycum, Pauquachin nations. We also acknowledge that this event would not have been possible without the following supporters:
The Christensen Fund
Museum of Anthropology
Alcheringa Gallery
Indigenous Governance Program (University of Victoria)
Royal British Columbia Museum
MediaNet
Gumboot Productions
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Margo MatwychukDirector
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