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Friday Nov. 14Friday Nov. 14ScheduleSchedule
7:00 pm SAND AND SORROWA look into Darfur, killing and crimes against a nation’s own
people, hear the call to be their hope
Conversation with Ameera Abbo and Adam Abdalla,
Darfurian Congress of Canada; whose lives are shaped by the ongoing conflict. Hear their passion, share in their effort.
Friday Nov. 14Friday Nov. 14ScheduleSchedule
9:00 pm NEW YEAR BABYA journey to Cambodia to discover a family’s past
Conversation with Dom Eam,
Vice-President of the Calgary-Cambodian Association
Saturday Nov. 15 ScheduleSaturday Nov. 15 Schedule1:00 DEVOTION AND DEFIANCE
The struggle for religious freedom in Tibet
Conversation with Tsering Chodon
a member of the local Tibetan community
Saturday Nov. 15 ScheduleSaturday Nov. 15 Schedule
2:00 THE FORGOTTEN WOMAN Calgary Premiere
after Deepa Mehta’s Water…this beautiful depiction of the harsh reality of widowhood
in India
Conversation with Aradhana Parmar
Associate Professor of Development Studies, University of Calgary
Saturday Nov. 15 ScheduleSaturday Nov. 15 Schedule
4:30 TAR SANDS: THE SELLING OF ALBERTAQuestions abound: from the pipefitter, to Peter Lougheed, to
Washington lobbyist
Conversation withSid Dykstra,
President, Opti Canada Andrew Nikiforuk,
Author of “Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent”
Saturday Nov. 15 ScheduleSaturday Nov. 15 Schedule
7:00 THE BATTLE OF CHERNOBYL Calgary Premiere The little known, dramatic story that followed the Chernobyl Nuclear
Power Plant explosion
Conversation with David Marples,
Professor, Dept of History & Classics, University of Alberta
Mary Nokleby, Member, Citizens Advocating the
Use of Sustainable Energy (CAUSE)
Saturday Nov. 15 ScheduleSaturday Nov. 15 Schedule
9:00 A LESSON OF BELORUSSIAN Calgary PremiereBe inspired by youth organizing to be free, to achieve democracy for
Belorussia
Conversation with David Marples
Professor, Dept of History & Classics, University of AlbertaSandra van den Brink
Founder, Ayudamos Foundation
Sunday Nov. 16 Sunday Nov. 16 ScheduleSchedule
1:00 TANGIER TREEHOUSE Calgary PremiereMoroccan street children build a treehouse and find themselves
transformed
Conversation with Michael Lickers
Executive Director and Founder of Ghost River Rediscovery
Sunday Nov. 16 Sunday Nov. 16 ScheduleSchedule
2:30 WE ARE TOGETHER (Family Film)The moving story of South African children overcoming hardship with
music
Conversation with the Pritchard family
from Calgary who’ve volunteered in a similar situation and region in South Africa
Sunday Nov. 16 Sunday Nov. 16 ScheduleSchedule
4:30 THE UNFORSEEN Calgary PremiereWhen land development threatens Barton Spring, a fragile limestone
aquifer, a community fights back
Conversation with Mark Bennett
Bow River Basin Council Brian Pincott
City of Calgary AldermanModerated by Jim Brown
Host of the Calgary Eyeopener, CBC Radio One and
Co-Director of the film Radiant City
Sunday Nov. 16 Sunday Nov. 16 ScheduleSchedule
Conversation with
Anne Aspler who stepped out to make a difference,
founding the University Of Alberta Chapter Of Dignitas International
7:00 TRIAGE: DR. JAMES ORBINSKI’S HUMANITARIAN DILEMMA
Orbinski revisits Somalia, Rwanda and the Congo and reflects on lives lost and lives saved, seeking to make sense of it all
NGO VillageNGO Village1. Ayudamos Foundation
www.ayudamos.ca
2. Bolivia Kids www.boliviakids.com
3. Cause Canada
www.cause.ca
4. Christmas Future www.christmasfuture.org
5. Citizens Advocating the Use of Sustainable Energy (Nuclear Free Alberta)
www.nuclearfreealberta.ca
NGO VillageNGO Village
6. Darfurian Congress of Canada
7. Dignitas International www.dignitasinternational.org
8. Fibres of Life
www.fibresoflife.com
9. Grandmothers to Grandmothers Calgary Regionwww.stephenlewisfoundation.org
10. Momentum
www.momentum.org
NGO VillageNGO Village
11. Oxfamwww.oxfam.ca
12. River Park Church www.riverparkchurch.com
13. Samaritans Purse www.samaritanspurse.ca
14. Sierra Club - Chinook Group
www.sierraclubchinook.org
15. Ten Thousand Villageswww.tenthousandvillages.com
NGO VillageNGO Village16. Tibet Canada Women’s Foundation
http://www.tibet.org/Resources/TSG/Groups/ca.tib.women.html
17. TVG - True Vision Ghana (Canada) www.truevisionghana.org
18. United Nations Association Canada – Calgary Chapter
www.calgary.unac.org
19. CAWST - Centre For Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology
www.cawst.org
20. CRWRC – Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
www.crwrc.org
NGO VillageNGO Village
21. Ghost River Rediscoveryhttp://www.ghostriverrediscovery.com
22. MCC – Mennonite Central Committee www.mcc.org/alberta
23. Verde Tea www.verdetea.com/Verde_Tea/home.html
24. Good Givingwww.goodgiving.ca