Water topics will be served three ways at the University of Victoria (UVic), in celebration of World Water Day.
A resource fair, film screening and expert dialogue are on the docket for March 20, led by the POLIS Water Sustainability Project at UVic’s Centre for Global Studies.
The Water Sustainability Resource Fair will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. in the Michèle Pujol Room of the Student Union Building, offering networking opportunities with leaders and experts from the broader community, research labs and local businesses.
At 5 p.m., Cinecenta will host a film screening of The Spirit Who Swims, a love manifesto to salmon and their spiritual and material importance to Indigenous Peoples along the Fraser River.
After the film screening, a facilitated dialogue and Q&A will be held with a panel of experts: Bev Sellars, UVic Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, former chief of the Xatśūll Nation and film producer/co-director; Deborah Curran, UVic Environmental Law Centre executive director; Robert Clifford, UBC Allard School of Law Indigenous Legal Studies co-academic director; and film co-director and cinematographer Garry Tutte.
The event is presented by UVic’s POLIS Water Sustainability Project, Centre for Global Studies and Environmental Law Centre, with CIFAL Victoria, University of Victoria Sustainability Project and Watershed Watch Salmon Society.
For details, visit the event website.
