We are very excited to announce the launch of OPEN CINEMA Season Eight!
On Wednesday September 22, 2010 we will partner with local food co-op FoodRoots for the first in a series of seasonal celebrations of film, food and farming. As usual, doors open at 5.30, film at 7pm at the Victoria Event Centre, 1415 Broad Street. Admission by $10 suggested donation.
FRESH is a documentary featuring Michael Pollan, Will Allen and Joel Salatin which celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. It’s an upbeat, entertaining and inspiring call to action.
More info and trailer here
FRESH Season Eight launch
7pm, Wednesday September 22nd 2010
FRESH
new thinking about what we’re eating
a documentary by Ana Sofia Joanes
FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable alternatives, they offer a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet.
www.freshthemovie.com
OPEN FORUM DISCUSSION
Trevor Walker, Plenty Epicurean Pantry; Sol Kinnis, City Harvest; Heather Stretch (Saanich Organics); moderator Linda Geggie, LifeCycles founder, Capital Region Food & Agriculture Initiatives Roundtable Coordinator (CRFAIR).
‘Fresh Films’ the first in a series of
seasonal celebrations of film, food & farming
in collaboration with www.FoodRoots.ca
Victoria Event Centre
1415 Broad St (elevator access)
$10 suggested donation
Cash bar, local organic food concession, popcorn, coffee, door prizes, more!
Doors open at 5.30pm
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250.381.4428
www.opencinema.ca
OPEN CINEMA is a Program of MediaNet
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‘Winds of Heaven: Emily Carr, Carvers and the Spirits of the Forest’ (2010)
6.30pm, October 13th and 14th, 2010
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria,
Admission $13 (includes gallery admission)
Please note earlier start time: 6.30pm
The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and OPEN CINEMA are proud to present the Victoria premiere of Winds of Heaven: Emily Carr, Carvers and the Spirits of the Forest, an evocative and moving portrait of the life and times of Emily Carr. Renowned Canadian filmmaker Michael Ostroff will be in attendance for a Q & A October 13th and for a panel discussion with key speakers October 14th. Winds of Heaven screens both nights at 6:30pm.
Winds of Heaven is an impressionistic exploration of the spirit that informed the solitary life of one of Canada’s most celebrated and irrepressible painters. Emily Carr began painting in an era when women didn’t, travelling to remote locations that few professional adventurers chose to go. Not only did she adopt the painting techniques of modernism, when such ideas were considered dangerous, Carr chronicled the extraordinary art and culture of native peoples, who were at the time invisible to the dominant culture.
The film disp els a number of myths about Carr’s life and her contradictory relationship with and attitude towards the First Nations people of the Northwest Coast of British Columbia. While she resisted the predominate white attitude of portraying natives as ‘savages’, devoid of cultural sensibilities, the film explores the critique of Carr that she did contribute to the “traffic of native images”. It also recalls the racism of the day – the Canadian government’s celebration of the ancient native arts and its determination to preserve the totem poles, while ironically advocating and implementing policies that were determined to assimilate First Nations people and eradicate their way of life and culture.
Please note earlier start time: 6.30pm
More information about the film here .
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Item posted Aug 25, 2010 in Events
7pm Wednesday November 17th, 2010
Victoria Event Centre, 1415 Broad Street
Sponsored by Capital Regional District
With filmmakers in attendance!
www.CleanBinMovie.com
The Clean Bin Project is a feature documentary film about a regular couple and their quest to answer the question “is it possible to live completely waste free?”.
Partners Jen and Grant go head to head in a competition to see who can swear off consumerism and produce the least landfill garbage in an entire year. Their light-hearted competition is set against a darker examination of the sobering problem waste in North American society. Even as Grant and Jen start to garner interest in their project, they struggle to find meaning in their seemingly minuscule influence on the large-scale environmental impacts of our “throw-away society”. Featuring interviews with renowned artist, Chris Jordan and marine pollution expert, Captain Charles Moore, The Clean Bin Project presents the serious topic of waste reduction with optimism, humour, and inspiration for individual action.
More details to follow….
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