No More Drug War Double-Bill Filmfest

[Senior]

(this is not my event but looks very interesting so I thought I would pass it on, cheers)

When: April 14, 2007 12:30 PM to April 15, 2007 4:30 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada).
Where: Vancouver International Film Centre (1181 Seymour Street at Davie)

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*** Upcoming Special Event!! ***

Dear Friends,

The British Columbia Compassion Club Society and the Vancouver Island Compassion Society cordially invite you to the "No More Drug War Double-Bill Filmfest"

featuring two exceptional documentaries exploring very different aspects of our failed drug prohibition:

"Damage Done: the Drug War Odyssey", directed by Connie Littlefield and sponsored by the National Film Board of Canada;
(http://www.onf.ca/communique/communi...5787&v=h&lg=en)

and

"Waiting to Inhale: Marijuana, Medicine & the Law", directed by Jed Riffe and supported by the Sundance Independent Film Festival.

(http://www.waitingtoinhale.org/thefilm.htm)

A community dialogue will follow the screenings with the directors of both films and special guests from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) including former Mayor of Vancouver Senator Larry Campbell (at the Vancouver showing).

When and Where:
Saturday April 14th in Victoria - Roxy Theatre (2657 Quadra Street) Sunday April 15th in Vancouver - Vancouver International Film Centre (1181 Seymour Street at Davie)

Both locations: 12:30-4:30 p.m. (doors 11:45)

Tickets (door only): $10 Regular / $5 Seniors & VICS/BCCCS members.
Special sponsor tickets with reserved seating are also available for $50 each, please call us in advance if you would like to purchase one of these.

All proceeds will go to the British Columbia Compassion Club Society
(www.thecompassionclub.org) and Vancouver Island Compassion Society (www.thevics.com).

Please print out this event poster and pass this message on to anyone you think may be interested!
http://thecompassionclub.org/resourc...gwarposter.pdf

For more information contact:
Victoria: Philippe Lucas, 250-884-9821; [email protected]
Vancouver: Rielle Capler, 604-875-0214; [email protected]

We hope to see you there!
Rielle Capler and Philippe Lucas

P.S. Special thanks to the following supporting organizations:

The National Film Board of Canada
TIDES Canada Foundation
The Center for Addictions Research of B.C.
Canadians for Safe Access
Creative Resistance
Voices of Substance
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Pivot Legal Society
B.C. Persons With AIDS Society
Society of Living Injection Drug Users of Victoria B.C. Civil Liberties Association