Sunday, March 17, 2013

Hope is not a Plan: Disability & Institutionalization in Canada

URBAN SHERPA FILMS PROUDLY INVITES YOU TO THE PREMIERE

WHEN: March 27
WHAT TIME: 6:30pm
WHERE: Vancouver Public Library, 2nd Level, Alma Vandusen and Peter Kaye rooms, 350 W Georgia,Vancouver

Please watch the trailer: Here

Hope Is Not A Plan is a film about you and everybody you know. 56 percent of Canadians over the age of 75 are disabled. The majority of Canadians will live to their 80s. This means, you or someone close to you will most likely get a disability.

This documentary film shows the consequences for Canadians with disabilities from a fact hidden in plain sight: most Canadians with disabilities, unlike Americans with disabilities, do not have a practical way to enforce the civil rights guaranteed to them by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Through interviews with experts and people with disabilities from across Canada, such as Paul Caune, one of the founders of Civil Rights Now!, gold medal winning Paralympian Paul Gauthier and Courage to Come Back award recipient Zosia Ettenberg, Hope Is Not A Plan shows how not having a practical way to enforce your civil rights makes you vulnerable.

When your civil rights are violated you don't need a good hug, you need a good lawyer.

Please email this invitation to your networks and post it on any websites you can.

Everybody is welcome.

Seating is limited.
Please RSVP at this email asap.
or join us on Facebook to reserve.

Thank you,
Colin Andrew Ford
www.urbansherpafilms.com
@urbansherpafilm
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Hope is Not a Plan screening & panel - Surrey

On behalf of the Sociology Department and The Centre for Global & Multi-centric Education at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, you are invited to a presentation of the new film, Hope is Not a Plan, an Urban Sherpa Film exploring disability and institutionalization in Canada. 

The film presentation will be followed by a panel discussion and audience participation. Included on the panel are Paul Caune, Director of Civil Rights Now, and Professor Timothy Stainton, The Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship, UBC. 

This event will be attended by Kwantlen students, faculty and staff as well as numerous members from the wider Kwantlen community.

Date: Monday April 15, 2013                               Time: 1-3pm
Location: Kwantlen Polytechnic University
12666 72nd Ave, Surrey B.C.
Conference Centre.



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