FAMILY DAY
The Paradise Theatre // Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 12pm
Join us for a the free Family Day including an interactive exhibit of Inbetweening Beings, the premiere of the EcoSchools Canada Youth Reporter for the Environment national winning films, and the live 2023 Robert Stewart Youth Eco-Hero Presentation with Miyawata Dion Stout at the Paradise Theatre following the screening of I Won’t Stand For It.
The Family Day is generously sponsored by:
I Won’t Stand For It
Miyawata is a 15-year old Indigenous activist from Winnipeg, Canada, who never hesitates speak up for what she believes in. To protest the injustices that her people have faced throughout the history of Canada, she refuses to stand for the National Anthem. She’s on a mission to help Indigenous voices be heard and included. And she’s the very first organizer of school strikes for the climate in her hometown. The climate movement in Winnipeg had big momentum… until COVID hit. Now that the end of the pandemic is in sight, can she get the movement going again?
Pond
When seagulls suddenly attack, one small herring finds itself stranded in a tidal pool. Only by joining forces with new friends can they hope to defend themselves against the hungry seagull.
Spuffies
Spuffies have a serious thing for jubees. When they’ve eaten the very last delicious fruit and hunger is about to strike, they head to the jubee grove, through the murky forest.
Dangers of Vinyl
A winner of the EcoSchools Canada Youth Reporters for the Environment national competition, this student-made film is all about the dangers of vinyl records.
Food Waste
A winner of the EcoSchools Canada Youth Reporters for the Environment national competition, this student-made film covers battling food waste at schools.
Inbetweening Beings
Inbetweening Beings uses the increments of animation to examine ecology in the Anthropocene. Experimenting with frame-by-frame filmmaking, installation, and the materiality of landscape, a variety of living systems are projected, asking where and how humans fit in. Referencing specific locations and relations, the installation connects human and more-than-human life with light and shadow, inviting reflection and implication. Focusing on urban and human-disturbed landscapes, Inbetweening Beings suggests a distinctly anthropogenic “nature” – jumbled, entangled, polluted, and resilient.