[Wamvan] World Water Night Event - March 22

[Natalie Hill]

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From: Benita Bunjun <benitab at mail.ubc.ca>
Date: Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:33 PM
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*From:* Interfaith Institute [mailto:interf at sfu.ca]
*Sent:* March-20-12 10:15 PM
*To:* undisclosed-recipients:
*Subject:* World Water Night Event - March 22****

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You are invited to:****

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*World Water Night***

Readings with Lee Maracle and Michael Blackstock****

Screening of Samaqan: Water Stories with Director Jeff Bear****

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7 pm, March 22, 2012****

SB 301, Emily Carr University of Art and Design****

Vancouver, BC****

Coast Salish lands****

Free and open to the public****

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*Lee Maracle* is one of the most prolific aboriginal authors in Canada. Her
books include *Daughters Are Forever* (fiction, Raincoast, 2002), *Will’s
Garden* (Theytus, 2002), *Bent Box* (poetry, Theytus Books, 2000), *Sojourners
& Sundogs* (fiction, Press Gang, 1999), *Ravensong* (Press Gang, 1993), *I
Am Woman* (nonfiction, Press Gang, 1988) and *Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebel
*(fiction,
Women’s Press, 1975). She has received the J.T. Stewart Voices of Change
Award, and she contributed to *First Fish, First People*, which won the
Before Columbus Foundation’s American Book Award. Maracle has taught at the
University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo, Western Washington
University, South Oregon University, and many more places.****

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*Michael Blackstock* is an independent scholar, poet, artist, and forester
who has served as a member of the UNESCO-IHP Expert  Advisory Group on
Water and Cultural Diversity. He has published two books of poetry: *Salmon
Run: A* *Florilegium of Aboriginal Ecological Poetry *and *Oceaness*. Of
Gitxsan (Hazelton) and Euro-Canadian descent, Blackstock has a MA in First
Nations Studies. His first book, *Faces in the Forest *(McGill-Queen’s UP),
examines tree art in conjunction with First Nations cosmology, citing
carvings, paintings and writings on trees within Gitxsan, Nisga’a, Tlingit,
Carrier and Dene traditional territories.****

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*Jeff  Bear* (Maliseet) produces, writes and directs independent
documentaries  with director Marianne Jones (Haida) at Urban Rez
Productions  in Vancouver. Since 2000 Urban Rez has produced the 26-part
series  Ravens and Eagles, for broadcast on the Aboriginal Peoples
Television Network, as well as Storytellers in Motion, a 39 part
documentary series about indigenous storytellers, and currently, Samaqan:
Water Stories <http://samaqan.ca/>. The first documentary that Bear and
Jones shot together, Burnt Church: Obstruction of Justice won the 2001
Telefilm/APTN award for Best English Language Production.****

Bear  has worked in video and television steadily for the last  24 years.
He received the  2000 Leo Award for Best Information Series as the producer
of  First Story, an aboriginal current affairs program broadcast in Canada
on CTV. A past editor-in-chief of Kahtou  magazine, he has written widely
about indigenous political and  cultural representation in Canada. Bear
speaks the Maliseet language  fluently and was raised in Tobique First
Nation, New Brunswick.****


See http://downstream.ecuad.ca/?page_id=339 for more information****

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