We’ve got a three-part celebration planned for World Water Day!
Join us on the University of Victoria campus for all or some of what’s on offer.
1) Resource Fair & Pizza 🍕
3:30-4:30pm, Michèle Pujol Room, Student Union Building
💧Our celebrations will begin with a Water Sustainability Resource Fair. Come for free pizza and networking with a diverse mix of local water champions!
2) Film Screening 🎞️
5pm, Cinecenta, Student Union Building
💧We’ll gather at Cinecenta for a screening of Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again (2025).
3) Dialogue and Q&A 🗣️
Cinecenta, Student Union Building
💧Immediately following the film, Laura Brandes (POLIS) will facilitate a dialogue and Q&A with writer/director Lyana Patrick (Stellat’en First Nation) and SȾHENEP Adam Olsen (Former MLA/Tsartlip First Nation).
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ABOUT THE FILM
Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again (2025). After seven decades, two Indigenous nations reach a turning point in their historic legal fight to reclaim the Nechako River and the way of life it once sustained. Nechako is a powerful chronicle of resistance and renewal, reminding us that survival must serve everyone and the health of our lands and waters is inseparable from our own.
Nechako is provided courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada, Lantern Films, and Experimental Forest Films.
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This event is presented by the POLIS Water Sustainability Project and Centre for Global Studies with the BC Watershed Security Coalition, BIG_Lab & Indigenous Internationalisms, CIFAL-Victoria, Environmental Law Centre & Watershed Watch Salmon Society.
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Registration is recommended but not required:
https://poliswaterproject.org/polis-event-webinar/world-water-day-celebration/