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Dear Friends of SJS,
The Vancouver Island Human Rights Coalition has two job openings. See the attached calls for applications.

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A Cinecenta double bill of award-winning documentaries about African women making change – The Thinking Garden and Alive and Kicking: Soccer Grannies.

Tuesday Feb 20 @ 7 pm, Cinecenta UVic

Synopses:

The Thinking Garden: In the dying days of apartheid, three generations of women in a village in South Africa came together to create a community garden. They called it ‘the thinking garden,’ a place where women gather to think about how to make change. Twenty-five years later the garden is still... going strong, providing opportunities for local people while helping to meet the challenges of climate change, poverty, and HIV/AIDS. Director: Christine Welsh


“Speaks to the essence and significance of Food Sovereign communities.” Bellise Omondi, Food Sovereignty Campaign, South Africa

“Magnificent and inspirational.” Anthropologist Julie Cruikshank

Soccer Grannies: Filmed in the heart of Limpopo, South Africa, Alive and Kicking follows a group of South African grandmothers as they lace up their soccer boots and break all taboos. Facing personal challenges of abuse and poverty, these women come together to play some serious soccer – while waging a singular struggle for a decent life.


“So much joy and resilience and insistence on life.” Andrea Swift, New York Film Academy
Best Doc, Taos Shortz Film Festival; Best Short Film Seattle International FF; Spirited Storytelling Prize, DOC NYC

womensfarm.org/

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Feb. 21: Film Screening: Angry Inuk


Gender Studies is co-sponsoring a screening of Angry Inuk at the Law School next week on Feb 21st at 7:00 pm in the Fraser (Law) building, room 159.

There will be a Q&A afterwards with sealing activist and Akitsiraq law grad Aaju Peter after the film. Here is more info below – please help spread the word!

https://www.uvic.ca/law/home/events/current/angry-inuk-film-screening.php



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Feb. 21: Public Talk

Gender in the Round: Trans and Non-binary Reflections on Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects.

Legacy Gallery Downtown | 630 Yates St.

February 21, 2018 | 7pm | *free

Join gender diversity facilitator Kingsley Strudwick for an evening of audience engaged conversation with 4 guest speakers.

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Margo MatwychukDirector
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