[Wamvan] DOXA Ticket Giveaways

[Jarrah]

Hi folks,

In follow-up to yesterday's email, we have some free tickets to give away
to both DOXA screenings we mentioned.

Here are the details!

1. Win a pair of tickets to the screening of *She's Beautiful When She's
Angry* at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 5. The giveaway is being held on my
blog, Gender Focus, so head over there to enter
<http://www.gender-focus.com/2015/04/22/shes-beautiful-when-shes-angry-doxa-ticket-giveaway/>
!

2. Win a pair of tickets to *GTFO: Get the F&#% Out*, a movie about women
in gaming on Saturday, May 9 at 4:30 p.m. To enter, head on over to our WAM!
Vancouver Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/wamvancouver> or tweet us
@wamvancity and tell us your favourite video game.

Winners will be drawn randomly and notified for both giveaways on
Wednesday, April 29.

Thanks and feel free to email me directly at jarrahhodge at gmail.com if you
have any questions.

Jarrah



On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Jarrah <jarrahhodge at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> The documentary film festival DOXA is coming up from April 30 to May 10
> and there are a lot of films worth checking out, but a couple in particular
> that we wanted to highlight.
>
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> 1. *GTFO: Get the F&#% Out* <http://www.doxafestival.ca/film/gtfo>, a
> movie about women in gaming. WAM! Van is proud to be the community partner
> for this film. GTFO, a film by American director Shannon Sun-Higginson,
> "pries open the video game world to explore a 20 billion dollar industry
> that is riddled with discrimination and misogyny." It was sparked by the
> public display of harassment against Dragon Age writer Jennifer Hepler in
> 2012.
>
> *When:* Saturday, May 9 at 4:30 p.m.
> *Where:* The Cinematheque
> *Tickets: *$13 general admission/$11 students and seniors (no festival
> membership required)
>
> Check out the article on the WAM! Van chapter page
> <http://www.womenactionmedia.org/events/gtfo-a-film-about-women-in-gaming/>
> for more info on the film and reserving your tickets.
>
> 2. <http://www.doxafestival.ca/film/shesbeautiful>*She's Beautiful When
> She's Angry <http://www.doxafestival.ca/film/shesbeautiful> *is a
> documentary by Mary Dore, which explores the women's movement in the US
> from 1966 to 1971. Ever since it came out in late 2014 it's been getting
> rave reviews from feminist and mainstream media critics. Using extensive
> interviews and archival footage, Dore looks at various tactics activists
> used, the issues they organized around, and doesn't shy away from
> discussing the struggle faced by lesbians and women of colour to be
> meaningfully included.
>
> *When:* Tuesday, May 5 at 6:00 p.m.
> *Where: *The Cinematheque
> *Tickets (festival membership required): *$13 general admission or $16 if
> you need a festival membershipl/$11 for seniors and students or $14 for
> seniors and students for ticket plus festival membership.
>
> The screening will be followed by a post-film discussion with me on behalf
> of WAM! Van and Gender Focus, and Lucia Lorenzi. For those of you who don't
> know Lucia, she is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the
> UBC, as well as an anti-violence blogger at Rabble.ca. Her activism focuses
> largely on sexual assault in educational institutions. Her research
> interests include trauma theory and Canadian Literature, and her
> dissertation examines the relationship between silence and sexual violence.
>
> Click here for more info on the screening and to reserve your tickets
> <http://www.doxafestival.ca/film/shesbeautiful>.
>
> And please let me know if you're planning on attending either screening.
> We'd love to connect with other WAMmers in person and maybe grab coffee
> before or after the films.
>
> All the best,
>
> Jarrah
> on behalf of the WAM! Van organizing group
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http://gender-focus.com
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