What – Reel Lives: Madness, Addiction and Crime in Canada
When – Saturday May 11, 2013, 9am-5pm
Where – SFU Harbour Centre, Labatt Hall

When: Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m
Where: Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver BC
RSVP: By May 3, 2013 to Tonya Blakley at: tblakley@sfu.ca

When: Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m
Where: Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
RSVP: By May 3, 2013 to Tonya Blakley at: tblakley@sfu.ca

May 2, 2013 — Vancouver, BC   The heady radicalism of the 1970s gave birth to a path-breaking Canadian mental health organization that provided former mental patients with work, homes, community, and a chance to take charge of their own lives. The Inmates Are Running The Asylum is a documentary about Mental Patients Association (MPA), Vancouver’s ground-breaking mental health group, founded in the 1970s as a reaction to the dehumanizing experience many faced while in mental hospitals and after release.

On Saturday, May 11, 2013, the Carnegie Community Centre, 401 Main St., Vancouver) will host the premiere of The Inmates Are Running The Asylum with back-to-back screenings: the first at 4:00 p.m., followed by a panel discussion, the second at 6:00 p.m. – both public screenings will be free.

Read the full press release here.

Arguably an insensitive term that has anti-abortion connotations, “abortion tourism” is today the generic catch phrase for the very real travel women undertake to access abortion services. Travel is one of the central barriers to abortion access; the further a woman has to travel for an abortion, the less likely she is to obtain one and the more likely she is to be young and underprivileged. Yet abortion tourism persists. Often conducted over long range and across domestic and international borders, abortion tourism remains a commonplace transnational phenomenon.

In the 1960s and 1970s London, England, became a global destination for abortion services. This paper deals with the reasons why. It suggests that although abortion services are localized, they function on the level of the transnational, connecting the local, the national and the international for women seeking abortions.

Christabelle Sethna is a a historian and Associate Professor, Institute of Women’s Studies/Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa. She researches and publishes in the history of sex education, contraception and abortion.

This forum invites immigrant, ethnic, and racialized communities across the Lower Mainland to increase their awareness and understanding of Indigenous Peoples’ histories, struggles and resistance. The forum is dedicated to supporting the Idle No More movement.

Panel speakers will discuss past and recent laws that affect Indigenous Peoples’ self-determination. The forum will also look at historical and contemporary settler colonialism in Canada. What is our place and role in building respectful relations with Indigenous Peoples and their lands?

Following the speakers there will be group discussions where you will be able to talk with each other, the speakers, and other resource people. This will allow you to ask questions and work towards a deeper and respectful understanding of our relationships.

Panelists:
Elder Larry Grant (Musqueam)
Kat Norris (Lyackson/Nez Perce)
Mique’l Dangeli (Tsimshan)

Thursday February 21st, 2013 6 – 9pm
Room 1614, Douglas College, 700 Royal Ave., New Westminster, BC  Unceded Coast Salish Territories

For more information visit: http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/503167856395538/