World Water Day Celebration – Film Screening and Expert Dialogue

YOU’RE INVITED!
We’ve got a three-part celebration planned for World Water Day this year.
Join us for all or some of what’s on offer!
DATE
Thursday, March 20th, 2025

WHERE
University of Victoria
Resource Fair: Michèle Pujol Room, Student Union Building
Film Screening & Dialogue: Cinecenta, Student Union Building

TIME
Resource Fair: 3:30-4:45pm
Film Start: 5pm
Dialogue: right after the film

Our celebrations will begin with a Water Sustainability Resource Fair in the Student Union Building. Then, we’ll gather at Cinecenta for a screening of the new film The Spirit Who Swims (2024). Immediately following the film, Laura Brandes (Communications Director, POLIS Water Sustainability Project) will facilitate a dialogue and Q&A with special guests Bev Sellars (film producer/co-director; former Chief Xatśūll Nation), Robert Clifford (Co-Academic Director, Indigenous Legal Studies, Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia), Deborah Curran (Executive Director, Environmental Law Centre, University of Victoria), and Garry Tutte (film co-director/cinematographer).

PIZZA & RESOURCE FAIR
3:30pm to 4:45pm, Michèle Pujol Room, Student Union Building

Join us for pizza and networking with water leaders and champions from across campus and the broader community before we watch The Spirit Who Swims together. Stop by our Water Sustainability Resource Fair from 3:30pm to 4:45pm in the Michèle Pujol Room, Student Union Building, featuring community organizations, campus groups and research labs, and local businesses.

FILM SCREENING:
THE SPIRIT WHO SWIMS (56min)
Welcome at 5pm, Cinecenta, Student Union Building

Join us at Cinecenta at 5pm for a special World Water Day screening of The Spirit Who Swims (2024). The film is a love manifesto to Salmon, foregrounding their spiritual and material importance to Indigenous Peoples along the Fraser River. Through stunning aerials and vivid underwater cinema, The Spirit Who Swims is an urgent call to rethink our relationship with the natural world.

EXPERT DIALOGUE
Immediately following the film, Cinecenta, Student Union Building

Immediately following the film, Laura Brandes (Communications Director, POLIS Water Sustainability Project) will facilitate a dialogue and Q&A with special guests Bev Sellars (film producer/co-director; former Chief Xatśūll Nation), Robert Clifford (Co-Academic Director, Indigenous Legal Studies, Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia), Deborah Curran (Executive Director, Environmental Law Centre, University of Victoria), and Garry Tutte (film co-director/cinematographer).