A Mini Documentary Screening & Salon Conversation Event to Empower and Celebrate the World’s Women.
Date: May 18th 2012
Time: 7pm – 10pm
Where: Denman Cinemas
Ticket Price: $30 (proceeds to CARE Canada)
This event is a Kick off event for our West Coast CARE Canada Campaign “Walk In Her Shoes.” Walk in Her Shoes Campaign 2012:
Vancouver will be hosting the 3rd annual Walk In Her Shoes Campaign on May 20th 2012. Sarah Jamieson has pledged to walk/ run 101km in one day and is challenging Vancouverities to join her and walk 6km or more with her. She is the organizer and moderator for this event, and is a CARE Canada volunteer, as well as a volunteer with women and youth on the DTES.
Women Empowered features 3 mini documentaries directed by the acclaimed award winning photographer Phil Borges, who partnered with CARE, a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty, on an important project to highlight the plight and promise of poor women around the world.
Mini Doc 1 – Education: Learning to Lead, Orissa India
Mini Doc 2 – Maternal Health: Vigilante de la Vida, Torocori, Peru
Mini Doc 3 – Financial Services for the Poor: Strength in Numbers, Africa
For more than 25 years, Phil Borges has documented indigenous and tribal cultures around the world. On this night we showcase stories of triumph of women who are change agents in their own communities.
Conversation is an integral part to any salon event.Organized salons are one way to reclaim the valuable art of organic conversation and an authentic way to uncover new movements; that can be forged through a collective collaboration.
This is why we pair up these short documentaries with a panel of speakers and interactive components of a salon, where the audience can engage, ask questions and learn more about issues we face here in our own community and globally. Speakers, short documentaries, draw prizes, a slient auction and a networking lobby ~ a night of empowerment.
For more information please contact Sarah Jamieson at: runforacausemovement@gmail.com
