WSU Vancouver invites the public to meet women activists in film on Sunday

VANCOUVER, Wash. - Washington State University Vancouver Native American Programs and Collective for Social and Environment Justice invite the public to an "Evening of Activist Women in Film: The Fight for a Livable Planet" from 3:30 to 8 p.m. Sunday, April 21 at the Universalist Unitarian Church festival at 4505 E. 18th St. Vancouver, WA 98661. Donations will be accepted at the door, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds will help fund a student organizer for the Collective for Social and Environmental Justice. The festival will feature films and commentary by award-winning filmmakers Misty Grace, Jan Haaken and Heidi Hutner, who will be present to talk about their work.

Grace is an enrolled member of the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe and a descendant of the Chinook Indian Nation who earned her Ph.D. in English at Washington State University. She will discuss her short films "The Handsome Man" and "Wasteland" along with her experiences working in a vibrant Indigenous film scene with luminaries such as Lily Gladstone and Evan Adams.

Haaken's film "Atomic Bamboozle, the False Promise of a Nuclear Renaissance"and Hutner's film "Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island" both foreground the environmental and human health impacts of nuclear power. Screenings of the two films will be followed by a panel discussion on local antinuclear organizing.

The film festival is the culmination of WSU Vancouver's fifth annual interdisciplinary social justice conference-Health and Environmental Justice: Constructing Coalitions at the Intersections of Extraction, Militarism, and Climate Collapse. The free conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. April 19 and 20. Most content will be presented on Zoom with some in-person sessions as noted on the conference agenda. The detailed agenda and registration link can be found on the conference website: labs.wsu.edu/thethingreenlineispeople/announcing-the-5th-annual-sjcon/

Questions about the film festival or conference may be directed to [email protected]or[email protected].

About WSU Vancouver

As one of six campuses of the WSU system, WSU Vancouver offers big-school resources in a small-school environment. The university provides affordable, high-quality baccalaureate- and graduate-level education to benefit the people and communities it serves. As the only four-year research university in Southwest Washington, WSU Vancouver helps drive economic growth through relationships with local businesses and industries, schools and nonprofit organizations.

WSU Vancouver is located on the homelands of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and Peoples of the Lower Columbia Valley. We acknowledge their presence here. WSU Vancouver expresses its respect towards these original and current caretakers of the region. We pledge that these relationships will be built on mutual trust and respect.

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