This Week at Worldbridger :

Worldbridger will return in September to bring

you another series of world-bridging films from

around the globe. Thanks to everyone who came

out this year!!

Past Films

Jan 25/26

LOST YEARS is an epic documentary mini-series touching on the largest exodus in humankind, covering over 150 years of history of the Chinese in Canada and abroad.

An epoch that delivers an important message, namely, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” (Spanish philosopher, George Santayana (1863-1952), in Reason in Common Sense, The Life of Reason.)

We witness how man’s inhumanity to man continually plays out in world history and affairs, in part through the advances of new media and the vastness of our global village.

Our journey begins in old China in 1910 and concludes with the movement to embrace redress as a concept of social justice in the modern world of Canada, the United States, New Zealand and Australia, exactly one century later. [from lostyears.ca]

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Directed by Kenda Gee, Tom Radford

92 min./2011/Canada/English/PG

Cohost – VIU’s Department of Anthropology
Guest Speaker : Dr. Imogene Lim [Nanaimo Only]

Feb 1/2

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co-host : VIU’s Psychology Club

Feb 8/9 – Double Feature

In celebration of International Development Week

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Second Feature: Our First Voices

First Nations producers Marilyn Thomas and Catarina Longmuir joined Sharon Bliss to produce this omnibus of 13 poetic meditations on the importance of native languages for future generations. Website

Co-hosts:  Faculty of International Education; VIU’s Anti-Racism Project; and VIU’s Department of Anthropology (also Office of Aboriginal Education and FNAT?)

Co-Sponsor: VIU’s Office of Aboriginal Education

Feb 15/16

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Feb 29/Mar 1

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Cohost – VIU’s Consciousness Studies Group

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Mar 21/22

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Co-host – VIU’s Department of Anthropology

Mar 28/29

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Co-host – VIU’s Spanish Club

Apr 4/5

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