World Community AGM

Wednesday, May 16th – 7pm

Seniors’ Lounge Filberg Centre, Courtenay

The evening will begin with World Community’s annual reports and business.

Following that, special guest Delores Broten, Editor of BC’s environmental news magazine “Watershed Sentinel”, will lead a discussion focusing on the indigenous resistence to various forms of resource extraction around the world. This will include the current resistance to the proposed Enbridge Pipeline, the expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline, and the expansion of the Alberta Tar Sands. Watershed Sentinel distributes to a vibrant network of subscribers, supporters, and community activists throughout British Columbia and beyond. 2012 is the magazine’s 22nd year of bi-monthly publication.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Film Night – Sing Your Song

World Community Film Series continues this Tuesday, May 8th, 7pm at the North Island College Theatre in Courtenay with the film Sing Your Song (admission by donation).

Sing Your Song is an up close look at a great American, Harry Belafonte. A patriot to the last and a champion for worldwide human rights, Belafonte is one of the truly heroic cultural and political figures of the past 60 years. Told from Harry’s point of view, the film charts his life from a boy born in New York and raised in Jamaica, who returns to Harlem in his early teens where he discovers the American Negro Theater and the magic of performing.

From there the film follows Belafonte’s rise from the jazz and folk clubs of Greenwich Village and Harlem to his emergence as a star. However, even as a superstar, the life of a black man in 1960s America was far from easy and Belafonte was confronted with the same Jim Crow laws and prejudices that every other black man, woman and child in America was facing.

Among other things, the film presents a brief look at the Civil Rights Movement through the eyes of an insider, someone who despite his high profile, wasn’t afraid to spend time in the trenches.

From Harlem to Mississippi to Africa and South Central Los Angeles, Sing Your Song takes us on a journey through Harry Belafonte’s life, work and most of all, his conscience, as it inspires us all to action!

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