The Bridging and Sustaining Cultures Working Group will host it's first formal meeting at the Craik Eco-Centre Feb. 19th. New members are welcome. Please RSVP and send agenda items in advance to M.J. Barrett@usask.ca. Discussion questions include:

- what brings you to this working group?

- what are your key interests?

- what would you like to see us accomplish?

We will also be following up initiatives begun at the Spring Into Action Event hosted at the University of Saskatchewan in June, 2009.

Dear RCE Saskatchewan Facilitation Group (RFG) Members Including Working Group Coordinators:

A meeting of the RFG will take place on Monday, March 1, starting at 3:00 p.m. The meeting will end at approximately 4:30 p.m. Two venues have been formally arranged for the meeting. For those in or near Regina, a meeting space in the board room in the Student Services Office at Luther College at the University of Regina (room 110) has been arranged. For those in or near Saskatoon, a meeting space in room 8 of the Education Building at the University of Saskatchewan has been arranged. The meeting will be using Skype so that others with a Skype account can also participate from their respective locations. The Skype username for those calling in is:

luther_college

This meeting will provide an opportunity to discuss the activities of the RCE for the upcoming year. This includes work being conducted by the theme area working groups as well as the upcoming International RCE Conference in Curitiba, Brazil, in May.

Looking forward to an enjoyable and productive meeting.

Sincerely,

Roger Petry & Lyle Benko

Co-coordinators, RCE Facilitation Group

Please see attached poster providing details about this talk at 7:30 p.m. at Campion College as well as the Sustainability Fair from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

SEDA and Sask Made are organizing a 2010 conference: Sustainable Saskatchewan. The event is being held on March 3 & 4, 2010, at the Delta Bessborough Hotel in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Note the following information from Saskatchewan Economic Development Association and SaskMade:

Through a variety of information sessions, workshops, and networking breaks, Sustainable Saskatchewan will provide a forum for groups and individuals to share ideas and work towards more efficiently building communities that are economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable. The conference will also feature sessions to assist companies and organizations in applying for support through the many funding programs currently available to them.

We are also pleased to be featuring food from Saskatchewan producers at conference meals.

Please take a moment to look over the enclosed information package outlining the central conference themes and a Request for Presenters. Our goal is to make this conference attractive and beneficial to as wide a scope of delegates as possible. To achieve this objective, we are currently seeking Presenters and Sector Partners to collaborate in building an inclusive program that will provide value to our mutual stakeholders.

Please contact:

Verona Thibault, Saskatchewan Economic Development Association : (306) 384-5817 / verona.thibault@seda.sk.ca or Kim Hill, SaskMade (306) 683-2411 / hill@saskmade.ca

SEDA and Sask Made are organizing a 2010 conference: Sustainable Saskatchewan. The event is being held on March 3 & 4, 2010, at the Delta Bessborough Hotel in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Note the following information from Saskatchewan Economic Development Association and SaskMade:

Through a variety of information sessions, workshops, and networking breaks, Sustainable Saskatchewan will provide a forum for groups and individuals to share ideas and work towards more efficiently building communities that are economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable. The conference will also feature sessions to assist companies and organizations in applying for support through the many funding programs currently available to them.

We are also pleased to be featuring food from Saskatchewan producers at conference meals.

Please take a moment to look over the enclosed information package outlining the central conference themes and a Request for Presenters. Our goal is to make this conference attractive and beneficial to as wide a scope of delegates as possible. To achieve this objective, we are currently seeking Presenters and Sector Partners to collaborate in building an inclusive program that will provide value to our mutual stakeholders.

Please contact:

Verona Thibault, Saskatchewan Economic Development Association : (306) 384-5817 / verona.thibault@seda.sk.ca or Kim Hill, SaskMade (306) 683-2411 / hill@saskmade.ca

SEDA and Sask Made are organizing a 2010 conference: Sustainable Saskatchewan. The event is being held on March 3 & 4, 2010, at the Delta Bessborough Hotel in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Note the following information from Saskatchewan Economic Development Association and SaskMade:

Through a variety of information sessions, workshops, and networking breaks, Sustainable Saskatchewan will provide a forum for groups and individuals to share ideas and work towards more efficiently building communities that are economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable. The conference will also feature sessions to assist companies and organizations in applying for support through the many funding programs currently available to them.

We are also pleased to be featuring food from Saskatchewan producers at conference meals.

Please take a moment to look over the enclosed information package outlining the central conference themes and a Request for Presenters. Our goal is to make this conference attractive and beneficial to as wide a scope of delegates as possible. To achieve this objective, we are currently seeking Presenters and Sector Partners to collaborate in building an inclusive program that will provide value to our mutual stakeholders.

Please contact:

Verona Thibault, Saskatchewan Economic Development Association : (306) 384-5817 / verona.thibault@seda.sk.ca or Kim Hill, SaskMade (306) 683-2411 / hill@saskmade.ca

SEDA and Sask Made are organizing a 2010 conference: Sustainable Saskatchewan. The event is being held on March 3 & 4, 2010, at the Delta Bessborough Hotel in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Note the following information from Saskatchewan Economic Development Association and SaskMade:

Through a variety of information sessions, workshops, and networking breaks, Sustainable Saskatchewan will provide a forum for groups and individuals to share ideas and work towards more efficiently building communities that are economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable. The conference will also feature sessions to assist companies and organizations in applying for support through the many funding programs currently available to them.

We are also pleased to be featuring food from Saskatchewan producers at conference meals.

Please take a moment to look over the enclosed information package outlining the central conference themes and a Request for Presenters. Our goal is to make this conference attractive and beneficial to as wide a scope of delegates as possible. To achieve this objective, we are currently seeking Presenters and Sector Partners to collaborate in building an inclusive program that will provide value to our mutual stakeholders.

Please contact:

Verona Thibault, Saskatchewan Economic Development Association : (306) 384-5817 / verona.thibault@seda.sk.ca or Kim Hill, SaskMade (306) 683-2411 / hill@saskmade.ca

This event will take place from 9:30 – 11:45 AM at Evraz Place, Queensbury Centre, Salon A in Regina. The attached poster provides further information about this exciting event.

Download a free ticket needed to attend the event at: http://inspiringaction-jumpin2010.eventbrite.com/

The event will also be broadcast live at: http://ecast.scn.ca

This film festival takes its inspiration from the Gandhian philosophy that "you must be the change you wish to see in the world". Film is a powerful medium that is no longer only accessible to realm of elite. With internet sites such as you-tube, film-making is a wonderful and innovative way to tell stories about environmental and activist issues.

The festival will connect the Saskatoon community and University campus to inspire positive action around environmental issues represented by films. "At last year's environmental film festival we saw the change, this year we are taking the festival to another level and pushing for change in action" says Amber Burton, U of S student and this year's festival coordinator.

Many of the Environmental Films selected for this year's lineup showcase success stories that involve environmental solutions. The festival is aimed at connecting local and global issues and inspiring positive environmental and social change within the Saskatoon community.

University of Saskatchewan Campus and Saskatoon social and environmental organizations will have a chance to set up booths at the event to showcase the positive change they are making within Saskatoon.

Tickets are by donation $10 suggested for waged, $5 for students and low income.

Friday March 5th, at Arts 241, U. of S., Saskatoon The 7th Annual Environmental Activist Awards 7 pm, followed by: No Impact Man

Author Colin Beavan, in research for his next book, began the No Impact Project in November 2006. A newly self-proclaimed environmentalist who could no long avoid pointing the finger at himself, Colin leaves behind his liberal complacency for a vow to make as little environmental impact as possible for one year. No more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more non-local food, no more material consumption…no problem. That is, until his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle and their two year-old daughter are dragged into the fray. What began as one man's environmental experiment quickly becomes an experiment in how much one woman is willing to sacrifice for her husband's dreams. Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein's film provides both a front row seat into the experiment that became a national fascination and media sensation, and a behind the scenes look at the marital challenges that result from Colin's and Michelle's radical lifestyle change.

We follow numerous worldwide examples of people fighting for their basic right to water, from court cases to violent revolutions to U.N. conventions to revised constitutions to local protests at grade schools. As Maude Barlow proclaims, “This is our revolution, this is our war”. A line is crossed as water becomes a commodity. Will we survive? View the trailer here.

The film will be followed by "Green Gala" at Browsers at the Memorial Union Building on campus.

Saturday March 6th at the Roxy Theatre

Workshops by Rooted and Oxfam, presentation by Engineers Without Borders and the screening of environmental films "In Transition", "Taking Root" and "Black Gold" along with various local and international shorts.

12 - 2 pmIn Transition 50 min., 2009



In Transition is the first detailed film about the Transition movement filmed by those that know it best, those who are making it happen on the ground. The Transition movement is about communities around the world responding to peak oil and climate change with creativity, imagination and humour, and setting about rebuilding their local economies and communities. It is positive, solutions focused, viral and fun.

The film is the work of director Emma Goude, with production by Smith and Watson, and with input from Transition communities around the world. ‘In Transition’ is the perfect sequel to ‘The Age of Stupid’. It tells the story of the generation that looked peak oil and climate change square in the face, and responded with creativity, compassion and genius. In the film you will see the stories of communities creating their own currencies, setting up their own pubs, planting trees, growing food. You’ll see local authorities getting behind their local Transition initiatives, and get a sense of the scale of this emerging movement. It is a story of hope, and it is a call to action. View the trailer here.

2 - 4 pmShorts Series

details to be announced

Women's Rights Workshop: Presented by Oxfam

Oxfam's workshop will focus on women's rights, the W8 and the G8 summit coming up in June. We will come up with a list of around 10 discussion topics involving the G8, the W8, Child and Maternal Health, Climate Change etc. and their relationship with women's rights. Short articles and media images will be part of the workshop tools. Workshop attendees will break into groups of around 8-10 people (depending on the how many attend) and discuss one of these topics. After about 30 minutes, we will pass a microphone around and ask a group representative to share the group discussion with the larger group.

We really want focus the discussion on grassroots women's rights movements and encourage people to ask critical questions such as: What social and environmental issues do women's movements focus on and how would the agenda and discussion at the G8 differ if they were better represented at the summit? PM Stephen Harper has indicated that Child and Maternal Health will be a key focus at this year's G8 summit; how does the relative lack of female representation at the table shape the discussion of issues like this? What issues would the Saskatoon W8 bring to the table?

4 - 6 pmTaking Root 81 min., 2008



Taking Root tells the story of the Green Belt Movement of Kenya and its founder Wangari Maathai, the first environmentalist and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Professor Maathai discovered her life's work by reconnecting with the rural women with whom she had grown up. They told her they were walking long distances for firewood, clean water was scarce, the soil was disappearing from their fields, and their children were suffering from malnutrition. 'Well, why not plant trees?' Maathai suggested. These women found themselves working successively against deforestation, poverty, ignorance, embedded economic interests, and government corruption, until they became a national political force that helped to bring down Kenya's 24-year dictatorship. Through TV footage and chilling first person accounts, Taking Root documents the dramatic confrontations of the 1980s and '90s and captures Maathai's infectious determination and unwavering courage. Cinema verité footage of the tree nurseries and the women and children who tend them brings to life the confidence and joy of people working to improve their own lives and ensure the future and vitality of their land. View the trailer here.

7 - 9 pmBlack Gold 2006



Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields. Nowhere more evident is this paradox than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to save his 75,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price. Against the backdrop of Tadesse's journey to London and Seattle, the more powerful sides of the international trading system begin to unfold. New York coffee traders, auction houses and the double dealings of trade ministers at the World Trade Organisation reveal the enormity of Tadesse's task to find a long term solution for his farmers. View the trailer here.

Sunday March 7th at the Roxy Theatre12 - 2 pmThe End of the Line 2009



The End of the Line is the first major feature documentary film revealing the impact of overfishing on our oceans. In the film we see firsthand the effects of our global love affair with fish as food. It examines the imminent extinction of blue-fin tuna, brought on by increasing western demand for sushi; the impact on marine life resulting in huge overpopulation of jellyfish; and the profound implications of a future world with no fish that would bring certain mass starvation. Filmed across the world - from the Straits of Gibraltar to the coasts of Senegal and Alaska to the Tokyo fish market - featuring top scientists, indigenous fishermen and fisheries enforcement officials, The End of the Line is a wake-up call to the world. The trailer is here.

2 pmShorts Series details to be announced 3 - 5 pmH2Oil



In Canada's richest province, the war for water has already begun. It goes without saying that water - its depletion, exploitation, privatization and contamination - has become the most important issue to face humanity in this century. Water security will soon define the boundaries between people and countries. The war for oil is well underway across the globe. However, a struggle is increasingly being fought between water and oil, not only over them. Alberta's oil sands are at the tension center. The province is rushing towards large-scale oil extraction, which will have far reaching impacts on water, health, animals and the environment in the region. H2Oil weaves together a collection of disparate but intersecting characters as they respond, engage, defend and seek solutions to the wavering balance between the urgent need to protect and preserve fresh water resources and the mad clamouring to fill the demand for oil globally. View the trailer here.

5 - 6 pmYoung Film Makers' Panel featuring filmmakers from Saskatchewan.

This film festival takes its inspiration from the Gandhian philosophy that "you must be the change you wish to see in the world". Film is a powerful medium that is no longer only accessible to realm of elite. With internet sites such as you-tube, film-making is a wonderful and innovative way to tell stories about environmental and activist issues.

The festival will connect the Saskatoon community and University campus to inspire positive action around environmental issues represented by films. "At last year's environmental film festival we saw the change, this year we are taking the festival to another level and pushing for change in action" says Amber Burton, U of S student and this year's festival coordinator.

Many of the Environmental Films selected for this year's lineup showcase success stories that involve environmental solutions. The festival is aimed at connecting local and global issues and inspiring positive environmental and social change within the Saskatoon community.

University of Saskatchewan Campus and Saskatoon social and environmental organizations will have a chance to set up booths at the event to showcase the positive change they are making within Saskatoon.

Tickets are by donation $10 suggested for waged, $5 for students and low income.

Friday March 5th, at Arts 241, U. of S., Saskatoon The 7th Annual Environmental Activist Awards 7 pm, followed by: No Impact Man

Author Colin Beavan, in research for his next book, began the No Impact Project in November 2006. A newly self-proclaimed environmentalist who could no long avoid pointing the finger at himself, Colin leaves behind his liberal complacency for a vow to make as little environmental impact as possible for one year. No more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more non-local food, no more material consumption…no problem. That is, until his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle and their two year-old daughter are dragged into the fray. What began as one man's environmental experiment quickly becomes an experiment in how much one woman is willing to sacrifice for her husband's dreams. Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein's film provides both a front row seat into the experiment that became a national fascination and media sensation, and a behind the scenes look at the marital challenges that result from Colin's and Michelle's radical lifestyle change.

We follow numerous worldwide examples of people fighting for their basic right to water, from court cases to violent revolutions to U.N. conventions to revised constitutions to local protests at grade schools. As Maude Barlow proclaims, “This is our revolution, this is our war”. A line is crossed as water becomes a commodity. Will we survive? View the trailer here.

The film will be followed by "Green Gala" at Browsers at the Memorial Union Building on campus.

Saturday March 6th at the Roxy Theatre

Workshops by Rooted and Oxfam, presentation by Engineers Without Borders and the screening of environmental films "In Transition", "Taking Root" and "Black Gold" along with various local and international shorts.

12 - 2 pmIn Transition 50 min., 2009



In Transition is the first detailed film about the Transition movement filmed by those that know it best, those who are making it happen on the ground. The Transition movement is about communities around the world responding to peak oil and climate change with creativity, imagination and humour, and setting about rebuilding their local economies and communities. It is positive, solutions focused, viral and fun.

The film is the work of director Emma Goude, with production by Smith and Watson, and with input from Transition communities around the world. ‘In Transition’ is the perfect sequel to ‘The Age of Stupid’. It tells the story of the generation that looked peak oil and climate change square in the face, and responded with creativity, compassion and genius. In the film you will see the stories of communities creating their own currencies, setting up their own pubs, planting trees, growing food. You’ll see local authorities getting behind their local Transition initiatives, and get a sense of the scale of this emerging movement. It is a story of hope, and it is a call to action. View the trailer here.

2 - 4 pmShorts Series

details to be announced

Women's Rights Workshop: Presented by Oxfam

Oxfam's workshop will focus on women's rights, the W8 and the G8 summit coming up in June. We will come up with a list of around 10 discussion topics involving the G8, the W8, Child and Maternal Health, Climate Change etc. and their relationship with women's rights. Short articles and media images will be part of the workshop tools. Workshop attendees will break into groups of around 8-10 people (depending on the how many attend) and discuss one of these topics. After about 30 minutes, we will pass a microphone around and ask a group representative to share the group discussion with the larger group.

We really want focus the discussion on grassroots women's rights movements and encourage people to ask critical questions such as: What social and environmental issues do women's movements focus on and how would the agenda and discussion at the G8 differ if they were better represented at the summit? PM Stephen Harper has indicated that Child and Maternal Health will be a key focus at this year's G8 summit; how does the relative lack of female representation at the table shape the discussion of issues like this? What issues would the Saskatoon W8 bring to the table?

4 - 6 pmTaking Root 81 min., 2008



Taking Root tells the story of the Green Belt Movement of Kenya and its founder Wangari Maathai, the first environmentalist and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Professor Maathai discovered her life's work by reconnecting with the rural women with whom she had grown up. They told her they were walking long distances for firewood, clean water was scarce, the soil was disappearing from their fields, and their children were suffering from malnutrition. 'Well, why not plant trees?' Maathai suggested. These women found themselves working successively against deforestation, poverty, ignorance, embedded economic interests, and government corruption, until they became a national political force that helped to bring down Kenya's 24-year dictatorship. Through TV footage and chilling first person accounts, Taking Root documents the dramatic confrontations of the 1980s and '90s and captures Maathai's infectious determination and unwavering courage. Cinema verité footage of the tree nurseries and the women and children who tend them brings to life the confidence and joy of people working to improve their own lives and ensure the future and vitality of their land. View the trailer here.

7 - 9 pmBlack Gold 2006



Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields. Nowhere more evident is this paradox than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to save his 75,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price. Against the backdrop of Tadesse's journey to London and Seattle, the more powerful sides of the international trading system begin to unfold. New York coffee traders, auction houses and the double dealings of trade ministers at the World Trade Organisation reveal the enormity of Tadesse's task to find a long term solution for his farmers. View the trailer here.

Sunday March 7th at the Roxy Theatre12 - 2 pmThe End of the Line 2009



The End of the Line is the first major feature documentary film revealing the impact of overfishing on our oceans. In the film we see firsthand the effects of our global love affair with fish as food. It examines the imminent extinction of blue-fin tuna, brought on by increasing western demand for sushi; the impact on marine life resulting in huge overpopulation of jellyfish; and the profound implications of a future world with no fish that would bring certain mass starvation. Filmed across the world - from the Straits of Gibraltar to the coasts of Senegal and Alaska to the Tokyo fish market - featuring top scientists, indigenous fishermen and fisheries enforcement officials, The End of the Line is a wake-up call to the world. The trailer is here.

2 pmShorts Series details to be announced 3 - 5 pmH2Oil



In Canada's richest province, the war for water has already begun. It goes without saying that water - its depletion, exploitation, privatization and contamination - has become the most important issue to face humanity in this century. Water security will soon define the boundaries between people and countries. The war for oil is well underway across the globe. However, a struggle is increasingly being fought between water and oil, not only over them. Alberta's oil sands are at the tension center. The province is rushing towards large-scale oil extraction, which will have far reaching impacts on water, health, animals and the environment in the region. H2Oil weaves together a collection of disparate but intersecting characters as they respond, engage, defend and seek solutions to the wavering balance between the urgent need to protect and preserve fresh water resources and the mad clamouring to fill the demand for oil globally. View the trailer here.

5 - 6 pmYoung Film Makers' Panel featuring filmmakers from Saskatchewan.

This film festival takes its inspiration from the Gandhian philosophy that "you must be the change you wish to see in the world". Film is a powerful medium that is no longer only accessible to realm of elite. With internet sites such as you-tube, film-making is a wonderful and innovative way to tell stories about environmental and activist issues.

The festival will connect the Saskatoon community and University campus to inspire positive action around environmental issues represented by films. "At last year's environmental film festival we saw the change, this year we are taking the festival to another level and pushing for change in action" says Amber Burton, U of S student and this year's festival coordinator.

Many of the Environmental Films selected for this year's lineup showcase success stories that involve environmental solutions. The festival is aimed at connecting local and global issues and inspiring positive environmental and social change within the Saskatoon community.

University of Saskatchewan Campus and Saskatoon social and environmental organizations will have a chance to set up booths at the event to showcase the positive change they are making within Saskatoon.

Tickets are by donation $10 suggested for waged, $5 for students and low income.

Friday March 5th, at Arts 241, U. of S., Saskatoon The 7th Annual Environmental Activist Awards 7 pm, followed by: No Impact Man

Author Colin Beavan, in research for his next book, began the No Impact Project in November 2006. A newly self-proclaimed environmentalist who could no long avoid pointing the finger at himself, Colin leaves behind his liberal complacency for a vow to make as little environmental impact as possible for one year. No more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more non-local food, no more material consumption…no problem. That is, until his espresso-guzzling, retail-worshipping wife Michelle and their two year-old daughter are dragged into the fray. What began as one man's environmental experiment quickly becomes an experiment in how much one woman is willing to sacrifice for her husband's dreams. Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein's film provides both a front row seat into the experiment that became a national fascination and media sensation, and a behind the scenes look at the marital challenges that result from Colin's and Michelle's radical lifestyle change.

We follow numerous worldwide examples of people fighting for their basic right to water, from court cases to violent revolutions to U.N. conventions to revised constitutions to local protests at grade schools. As Maude Barlow proclaims, “This is our revolution, this is our war”. A line is crossed as water becomes a commodity. Will we survive? View the trailer here.

The film will be followed by "Green Gala" at Browsers at the Memorial Union Building on campus.

Saturday March 6th at the Roxy Theatre

Workshops by Rooted and Oxfam, presentation by Engineers Without Borders and the screening of environmental films "In Transition", "Taking Root" and "Black Gold" along with various local and international shorts.

12 - 2 pmIn Transition 50 min., 2009



In Transition is the first detailed film about the Transition movement filmed by those that know it best, those who are making it happen on the ground. The Transition movement is about communities around the world responding to peak oil and climate change with creativity, imagination and humour, and setting about rebuilding their local economies and communities. It is positive, solutions focused, viral and fun.

The film is the work of director Emma Goude, with production by Smith and Watson, and with input from Transition communities around the world. ‘In Transition’ is the perfect sequel to ‘The Age of Stupid’. It tells the story of the generation that looked peak oil and climate change square in the face, and responded with creativity, compassion and genius. In the film you will see the stories of communities creating their own currencies, setting up their own pubs, planting trees, growing food. You’ll see local authorities getting behind their local Transition initiatives, and get a sense of the scale of this emerging movement. It is a story of hope, and it is a call to action. View the trailer here.

2 - 4 pmShorts Series

details to be announced

Women's Rights Workshop: Presented by Oxfam

Oxfam's workshop will focus on women's rights, the W8 and the G8 summit coming up in June. We will come up with a list of around 10 discussion topics involving the G8, the W8, Child and Maternal Health, Climate Change etc. and their relationship with women's rights. Short articles and media images will be part of the workshop tools. Workshop attendees will break into groups of around 8-10 people (depending on the how many attend) and discuss one of these topics. After about 30 minutes, we will pass a microphone around and ask a group representative to share the group discussion with the larger group.

We really want focus the discussion on grassroots women's rights movements and encourage people to ask critical questions such as: What social and environmental issues do women's movements focus on and how would the agenda and discussion at the G8 differ if they were better represented at the summit? PM Stephen Harper has indicated that Child and Maternal Health will be a key focus at this year's G8 summit; how does the relative lack of female representation at the table shape the discussion of issues like this? What issues would the Saskatoon W8 bring to the table?

4 - 6 pmTaking Root 81 min., 2008



Taking Root tells the story of the Green Belt Movement of Kenya and its founder Wangari Maathai, the first environmentalist and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Professor Maathai discovered her life's work by reconnecting with the rural women with whom she had grown up. They told her they were walking long distances for firewood, clean water was scarce, the soil was disappearing from their fields, and their children were suffering from malnutrition. 'Well, why not plant trees?' Maathai suggested. These women found themselves working successively against deforestation, poverty, ignorance, embedded economic interests, and government corruption, until they became a national political force that helped to bring down Kenya's 24-year dictatorship. Through TV footage and chilling first person accounts, Taking Root documents the dramatic confrontations of the 1980s and '90s and captures Maathai's infectious determination and unwavering courage. Cinema verité footage of the tree nurseries and the women and children who tend them brings to life the confidence and joy of people working to improve their own lives and ensure the future and vitality of their land. View the trailer here.

7 - 9 pmBlack Gold 2006



Multinational coffee companies now rule our shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the industry worth over $80 billion, making coffee the most valuable trading commodity in the world after oil. But while we continue to pay for our lattes and cappuccinos, the price paid to coffee farmers remains so low that many have been forced to abandon their coffee fields. Nowhere more evident is this paradox than in Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to save his 75,000 struggling coffee farmers from bankruptcy. As his farmers strive to harvest some of the highest quality coffee beans on the international market, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find buyers willing to pay a fair price. Against the backdrop of Tadesse's journey to London and Seattle, the more powerful sides of the international trading system begin to unfold. New York coffee traders, auction houses and the double dealings of trade ministers at the World Trade Organisation reveal the enormity of Tadesse's task to find a long term solution for his farmers. View the trailer here.

Sunday March 7th at the Roxy Theatre12 - 2 pmThe End of the Line 2009



The End of the Line is the first major feature documentary film revealing the impact of overfishing on our oceans. In the film we see firsthand the effects of our global love affair with fish as food. It examines the imminent extinction of blue-fin tuna, brought on by increasing western demand for sushi; the impact on marine life resulting in huge overpopulation of jellyfish; and the profound implications of a future world with no fish that would bring certain mass starvation. Filmed across the world - from the Straits of Gibraltar to the coasts of Senegal and Alaska to the Tokyo fish market - featuring top scientists, indigenous fishermen and fisheries enforcement officials, The End of the Line is a wake-up call to the world. The trailer is here.

2 pmShorts Series details to be announced 3 - 5 pmH2Oil



In Canada's richest province, the war for water has already begun. It goes without saying that water - its depletion, exploitation, privatization and contamination - has become the most important issue to face humanity in this century. Water security will soon define the boundaries between people and countries. The war for oil is well underway across the globe. However, a struggle is increasingly being fought between water and oil, not only over them. Alberta's oil sands are at the tension center. The province is rushing towards large-scale oil extraction, which will have far reaching impacts on water, health, animals and the environment in the region. H2Oil weaves together a collection of disparate but intersecting characters as they respond, engage, defend and seek solutions to the wavering balance between the urgent need to protect and preserve fresh water resources and the mad clamouring to fill the demand for oil globally. View the trailer here.

5 - 6 pmYoung Film Makers' Panel featuring filmmakers from Saskatchewan.

"New thinking about the food we eat"

Cathedral Neighbourhood Centre, Regina

2900 13th Avenue

March 14 @ 2pm

$5/ticket - available from Body Fuel Organics and Dad's Organic Market.

Native Prairie Speaker Series hosted by the Prairie Conservation Action Plan

Ecology and Economics of Riparian Areas on the Prairies: What we know and what we don't!

Speaker: Etienne Soulodre, Range Agrologist, Saskatchewan Watershed Authority

Location: Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Regina, SK

Date/Time: Tuesday March 16, 12:00pm-1:00pm

FREE (free parking too)

This presentation will be broadcasted live online as well at: www.ustream.tv/channel/native-prairie-speaker-series

It will be available for view on the PCAP website: www.pcap-sk.org

Movie about the Canadian movement to ban lawn and garden pesticides.

Canadian Cancer Soc-SK site

http://www.cancer.ca/Saskatchewan/How%20you%20can%20help/SK-Take%20actio...

A Chemical Reaction premiere

Plan to attend the Saskatchewan premiere of:

          A CHEMICAL REACTION

The Canadian Cancer Society and the Saskatchewan Environmental Society
is hosting the screening of /A Chemical Reaction/, an acclaimed
documentary by Brett Plymale that tells the story of one of the most
powerful and effective community initiatives in the history of North
America – the Canadian movement to ban law and garden pesticides.
Concerned about the growing body of evidence linking pesticides to
cancer, Quebec, Ontario, PEI and more than 200 Canadian municipalities
have banned the sale and/or use of ornamental pesticides. The film’s
executive producer Paul Tukey will be at the screening for a question
and answer session. His book /The Organic Lawn Care Manual
<http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Lawn-Care-Manual/dp/1580176496>/ was the
best-selling lawn book of 2007.

The film will be shown in Regina and Saskatoon:

*When? * _March 17, 2010 at 7 p.m.

*Where?* _Education Auditorium
University of Regina

*When?* _March 16, 2010 at 7 p.m.

*Where?* _Saskatoon City Hospital
Auditorium 701 Queen Street

        Admission by donation

A CHEMICAL REACTION

The Canadian Cancer Society and the Saskatchewan Environmental Society is hosting the screening of /A Chemical Reaction/, an acclaimed documentary by Brett Plymale that tells the story of one of the most powerful and effective community initiatives in the history of North America – the Canadian movement to ban law and garden pesticides. Concerned about the growing body of evidence linking pesticides to cancer, Quebec, Ontario, PEI and more than 200 Canadian municipalities have banned the sale and/or use of ornamental pesticides. The film’s executive producer Paul Tukey will be at the screening for a question and answer session. His book /The Organic Lawn Care Manual <http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Lawn-Care-Manual/dp/1580176496>/ was the best-selling lawn book of 2007.

The film will be shown in Regina and Saskatoon:

*When?* _March 16, 2010 at 7 p.m.

*Where?* _Saskatoon City Hospital
Auditorium 701 Queen Street

about the Canadian movement to ban lawn and garden pesticides.

Canadian Cancer Soc-SK site

http://www.cancer.ca/Saskatchewan/How%20you%20can%20help/SK-Take%20actio...

A Chemical Reaction premiere

Plan to attend the Saskatchewan premiere of:

          A CHEMICAL REACTION

The Canadian Cancer Society and the Saskatchewan Environmental Society
is hosting the screening of /A Chemical Reaction/, an acclaimed
documentary by Brett Plymale that tells the story of one of the most
powerful and effective community initiatives in the history of North
America – the Canadian movement to ban law and garden pesticides.
Concerned about the growing body of evidence linking pesticides to
cancer, Quebec, Ontario, PEI and more than 200 Canadian municipalities
have banned the sale and/or use of ornamental pesticides. The film’s
executive producer Paul Tukey will be at the screening for a question
and answer session. His book /The Organic Lawn Care Manual
<http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Lawn-Care-Manual/dp/1580176496>/ was the
best-selling lawn book of 2007.

The film will be shown in Regina and Saskatoon:

*When? * _March 17, 2010 at 7 p.m.

*Where?* _Education Auditorium
University of Regina

*When?* _March 16, 2010 at 7 p.m.

*Where?* _Saskatoon City Hospital
Auditorium 701 Queen Street

        Admission by donation

A CHEMICAL REACTION

The Canadian Cancer Society and the Saskatchewan Environmental Society is hosting the screening of /A Chemical Reaction/, an acclaimed documentary by Brett Plymale that tells the story of one of the most powerful and effective community initiatives in the history of North America – the Canadian movement to ban law and garden pesticides. Concerned about the growing body of evidence linking pesticides to cancer, Quebec, Ontario, PEI and more than 200 Canadian municipalities have banned the sale and/or use of ornamental pesticides. The film’s executive producer Paul Tukey will be at the screening for a question and answer session. His book /The Organic Lawn Care Manual <http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Lawn-Care-Manual/dp/1580176496>/ was the best-selling lawn book of 2007.

The film will be shown in Regina and Saskatoon:

*When? * _March 17, 2010 at 7 p.m.

*Where?* _Education Auditorium
University of Regina