Film Series
Film Screening: Tues Jan. 21st – 7pm at NIC
THE SEQUEL – As we enter 2020, it’s a great time to imagine our collective future. Join World Community for the documentary, The Sequel, at the Stan Hagen Theatre at North Island College. The film explores the work of environmental economist David Fleming and the vibrant Transition Movement his ideas inspired.
Around the world, people are developing the skills, will and resources necessary to re-imagine civilization, even in the event of an uncertain future. We encounter extraordinary projects and people such as renegade economist Kate Raworth, philosopher Roger Scruton, Gaian ecologist Stephan Harding and localization revolutionary Helena Norberg-Hodge.
These visionaries are cultivating a resilience not reliant on the impossible promise of eternal economic growth. Instead, they are developing diverse alternatives and rekindling hope in the creativity and intelligence of people to nurse our communities and ecology back to health.
Everyone is welcome. Admission by donation FMI: 250 337 5412
Film Screening: Birth of a Family -Wed, June 28 – 7 pm
Aboriginal History Month Film: Birth of a Family Location: K’omoks Band Hall, 3320 Comox Rd., Courtenay Three Indigenous sisters and a brother, adopted as infants into separate families, meet together for the first time in this moving documentary. Removed from their...
Film Screening: Silent Land: The Fight for Fair Food
Monday, June 5th - 7pm - Stan Hagen Theatre NIC. Filmmaker Jan den Berg in attendance. In Cambodia, more and more fertile land is being taken over by large-scale farming industries while small-scale farmers are fighting to keep ownership of their land in order to...
Film Series: Tues, Oct. 28, 7pm, NIC
World Community will screen the new film On the Side of the Road Tuesday, Oct. 28 at 7pm at the NIC theatre, Courtenay. Filmmaker Lia Tarachansky will be in attendance for a discussion after the screening. Tarachansky grew up in Israel's largest settlement, Ariel....
Film Series: ‘Food Stamped’
World Community kicks off World Food Week with the film, Food Stamped (60 min.) - Wednesday, October 15 - 7pm at NIC Theatre, Courtenay. An award winning film, Food Stamped is an informative and humorous documentary following a couple as they attempt to eat a healthy,...
Film Screening May 20 – 7pm NIC Theatre
As part of Mayworks celebration of arts and labour, World Community screens the dramatic 1954 film“Salt of the Earth” May 20, 7pm at NIC theatre Courtenay. Based on an actual strike against the Empire Zinc Mine in New Mexico, the film deals with the prejudice against...
Festival of Food Films
Come enjoy a variety of "Food Theme" Films, Guest Speakers, Community Garden Tours and Workshops. Learn about local sustainable food production , GMO concerns and more! ADMISSION BY DONATION Films will include: More than Honey, Harvesting Community, Ladies of the...
Film Screening: Tuesday March 4th – 7:00 pm, NIC Theatre
World Community continues its film series with “Status Quo? The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada” (87 min, 2012). This powerful documentary will screen Tuesday March 4th at 7:00 pm at the North Island College theatre in Courtenay. Feminism has shaped the...
Pete Seeger Tribute Film Screening – Tues. Feb. 18th – 7pm
Pete Seeger was one of the most important voices and influential musicians in America. He died at age 94 on January 27. In memorium, and due to popular demand, World Community will host a screening of the Emmy Award winning feature documentary, “Pete Seeger: The Power...