January 25: Gather
Theme: Food Sovereignty
Location: Online screening*
Duration: 74 minutes, 2020
Time: 7:00 p.m. ET
Speaker: Kitty RLynn Lickers, MA, Sessional Instructor, Indigenous Studies Department, McMaster University, and Dr. Adrianne Xavier, PhD Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies Department, McMaster University.
Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide.
***Newman Catholic Student Centre, Guelph: In-person prayer service and online community screening. No registration required,325 Gordon St, Guelph, ON. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. ALL ARE WELCOME!
February 22: La Lucha Sigue (The Struggle Continues)
Theme: Honduras Land Defenders
Location: Online screening
Duration: 66 minutes, 2021
Time: 7:00 p.m. ET
Speaker: Elvin Hernandez, Honduran human rights investigator
In Honduras, the most dangerous place in the world to be a land defender, the Lenca and Garifuna people are not backing down. They are fighting to uphold their rights and Indigenous and Black cultures in the face of state backed megaprojects and narco-traffickers who seek to assassinate them, destroy their lands, and erase their existence.
March 27: Island of Lemurs, Madagascar
Theme: Youth
Location: Online
Duration: 40 minutes, 2015
Time: 7:00 p.m. ET all public
A documentary that follows Dr. Patricia C. Wright’s mission to help lemurs, the highly evolved creatures who arrived on Madagascar millions of years ago as castaways but are now highly endangered.
D&P Schools: Online (Daytime screening)
April 25: Bigger than Us
Theme: Youth Power
Location: Online
Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes, 2021
Time: 7:00 p.m. ET
Speaker: Peter Mahfouz, Caritas Lebanon
The film tells the journey of Melati Wijsen, who decides to go around the globe to meet her peers, young activists just like her, who already have managed to have a huge impact in their fields thanks to their convictions and determination. Melati can feel that the clock is ticking and that change is too slow. She wants, she needs to understand what is preventing change. To join forces. And to come up with her new plan.
May 23: The Biggest Little Farm
Theme: Ecology/ Organic Agriculture
Location: Online
Duration: 91 minutes, 2019
Time: 7:00 p.m. ET
Speaker: Lisa Conroy, Farm Educator, Ignatius Jesuit Centre