Join The Feminist Emergency Tour Nanaimo!
Film screening, discussion and calls to action
Screening of Analogue Revolution: How Feminist Media Changed the World. Featuring director Dr Marusya Bociurkiw in conversation with Dr. Sonnet L'Abbé, Professor Finn Meyer Cook, and Dr Magnolia Pauker. Followed by Calls to Action from Accessibility for All, The Fireside Feminists, Palestine Solidarity Encampment, Transnational Feminist Partnerships for Collective Liberation, and more!
When: Thursday, March 19, from 7 to 10 pm
Where: Gustafson Theatre, Building 355 Room 203, VIU Campus
Admission: Free
Refreshments will be served.
Please contact magnolia.pauker@viu.ca with accessibility requirements or for more information.
There will be merch for sale including DVDs and T-shirts.
Marusya Bociurkiw (Boh-syer-kev) is a writer, curator, filmmaker and Professor Emeritus at Toronto Metropolitan University. She got her start as a filmmaker in the 1980’s experimental video/film movement and has since directed or co-directed eleven films and videos, She has published essays and articles in The Globe & Mail, Now Magazine, Xtra!, Rabble, The Canadian Journal of Communication, and many other academic and literary publications. Her 6 books, the most recent of which is Food Was Her Country: The Memoir of a Queer Daughter, span several genres and have won or been shortlisted for several awards. Her 2015 film, “This Is Gay Propaganda: LGBT Rights & the War in Ukraine” (2015) screened in 13 countries & was translated into four languages. Her latest film, the award-winning “Analogue Revolution: How Feminist Media Changed the World” examines the role of analogue technologies in feminism and social change. It was was nominated for best documentary by the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards. From the recording and rewriting of family foodways to the auto-ethnographic examination of feminist video collectives in Canada - her work broadly concerns itself with the narrativizing of archives, and their corrective role in national memory.
An upcoming free public event co-hosted by the Vancouver Island University Faculty Association Women's and Gender Equity Committee and Studies in Women & Gender.
