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Join us in supporting our local artists with the #POWERSHARE Covid Relief Fundraiser for BIPOC Artists! @seara_fund hopes to raise and distribute $500k-$1M to BC-based BIPOC Artists facing financial hardship. Donate or apply for a grant at searafund.ca. The Sector Equity for Anti-Racism in the Arts (SEARA) @seara_fund was created by BC Arts Service Organizations and other sector leaders to call for mutual aid and accountability within the BC arts sector. Help us to offset B...C-based BIPOC Artists’ loss of income, and simultaneously address historical inequities in the sector. Donate to #POWERSHARE and check out our donation goals online at searafund.ca ! #SEARA #OURSHARE #BIPOCArtists #BC #Vancouver

The documentary, The Least We Can Do, is premiering on December 12 in the One World Refugee Film Festival online across Canada. The film will be followed by the activist discussion. The discussion panel will explore the crisis taking place in Iraq as the Yazidi displaced by war leave the refugee camps to return to Sinjar, their homeland destroyed by ISIS. Please join us to learn firsthand of the current crisis and how Canada can work with allies to make a difference.... For details of The Least We Can Do film festival screening and discussion: https://owrff2020.eventive.org/fil/5f6b69e2a55c07007d3a63dd The cost is only $10 and that money is donated to the sponsoring charities.

Find out more about the Women Refugees Advocacy Project https://womenrefugeesadvocacyproject.ca/documentary/

Willie O'Ree Game Changer O'Ree continues his important work to make the game of hockey inclusive for all children and has a new memoir: Willie: The Game Changing Story of the NHL's First Black Player.

Women Refugees Advocacy Project @WomenRefugeesAP film The Least We Can Do world premiere is happening Dec 12 at Ottawa’s #oneworldrefugeefilmfestival Event Info: https://owrff2020.eventive.org/welcome Time: Dec 12, 3pm PST/ 6pm EST (Canada-wide)... Followed by discussion at 4pm PST/ 7pm EST featuring: The Honourable Lloyd Axworthy, Chair of the World Refugee & Migration Council Rev. Majed El Shafie, founder One Free World International Dr. Leora Kuttner, Clinical Psychologist and expert on pediatric pain management Aveen, Yazidi survivor of a previous genocide Dr. Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, Psychologist and leading world expert on Yazidi trauma care The Honourable Mobina Jaffer, QC, international advocate for protection of women and girls in war TICKETS: $10 available here: https://owrff2020.eventive.org/

A reminder to register for @imagineNATIVE's Micro Meetings sessions. Registration is open until 11 pm EST tonight. I am so pleased to be there to meet with talented Indigenous filmmakers and talk about their projects and the work we do at Moving Images to connect films with audiences. With these Virtual micro-meetings I look forward to mask-free discussions, although I am grateful to Haida designer Dorothy Grant for her inspiring masks that have kept me healthy in the midst of Covid!

It may be only October, but lots of people are thinking of January--a new film, My Name Was January, directed by two local trans women of colour, Elina Gress and Lenee Son. We're excited to make this work available as an important work about diversity, tolerance and love. The film, produced by Alex Sangha and Ash Brar, under the umbrella of the Sher Vancouver LGBTQ Friends Society, is garnering awards on the festival circuit and many reviews. Here's a link to the latest one, from Canadian Immigrant magazine who interviewed Alex Sangha (past recipient of an RBC award for the Top 25 Immigrants). https://canadianimmigrant.ca//film-shares-story-of-transge

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