All Our Father’s Relations: Film Screening and Dialogue on Settler Colonialism, Identity, and Migration

UBC Robson Square 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Join The Ismaili Centre, Vancouver and UBC Connects at Robson Square for a free, exclusive screening of All Our Father’s Relations on Tuesday, June 14 from 5-8 PM. Following the film will be an in-person talkback with Elder Larry Grant, film director Alejandro Yoshizawa, and co-producer Sarah Ling moderated by UBC students Kira Doxtator, Raiyana […]

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Film Screening of Courage (2021) & Panel Discussion on Academic Freedom in Belarus

Liu Institute for Global Issues 6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The UBC Human Rights Collective (HRC) is hosting an in-person screening of the critically acclaimed film Courage (2021) as an expression of solidarity with wrongfully imprisoned Belarusian students. The film captures the state of the pro-democracy movement in Belarus amidst the ongoing human rights violations under the oppressive regime of Alexander Lukashenko. It follows three […]

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Seizing Hope: High Tech Journeys in Pediatric Epilepsy

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Join us for the world premiere of SEIZING HOPE: High Tech Journeys in Pediatric Epilepsy! Can new technology bring hope to children who have drug-resistant epilepsy? More than 500,000 children in Canada and the USA have epilepsy. About a third of those children continue to have seizures despite taking anti-seizure medications, also known as pediatric […]

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Holy Angels and Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair

Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) 1985 Learners' Walk, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This in-person screening takes place at the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, 1985 Learners Walk, UBC. A short discussion will follow the film screenings. Holy Angels (2017) Jay Cardinal Villeneuve In 1963, Lena Wandering Spirit became one of the more than 150,000 Indigenous children who were removed from their families and sent to […]

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Healing Journey One Button at a Time, Red Path, and Now is the Time

Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) 1985 Learners' Walk, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This in-person event takes place at the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC, 1985 Learners Walk. A brief discussion will follow the film screenings. Red Path (2015) Thérèse Ottawa This short documentary tells the story of Tony Chachai, a young Indigenous man in search of his identity. Moved by the desire to […]

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Sisters and Brothers, Meneath, and Stories are in our Bones

Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) 1985 Learners' Walk, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This in-person event takes place at the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at UBC, 1985 Learners Walk. A brief discussion will follow the film screenings. Sisters and Brothers (2015) Kent Monkman In a pounding critique of Canada’s colonial history, this short film draws parallels between the annihilation of the bison in the 1890s […]

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