Sisters in Spirit Screening & Workshop with Jennifer Brant

On September 30 from 9:30 to 11:30am, Jennifer Brant will host a screening of Sisters in Spirit, accompanied by a workshop, in the Kinsella Auditorium in McCain Hall on the STU Campus. The documentary Sisters in Spirit was created by Indigenous filmmaker, Nick Printup. The film explores the importance of a national inquiry into Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. It won Best Documentary and Best Cinematography at Niagara College’s Film, Radio and Television Awards. It features various commentators including Sophie Grégoire Trudeau. The film is screening for special audiences, including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Jennifer Brant, co-editor of Forever Loved: Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada, will host the screening as part of a workshop titled Reconciliation through Education. This film screening and workshop is being presented by Women’s Studies and Gender Studies at STU in collaboration with the School of Education at STU, the Law in Society Program at UNB, the New Brunswick Media Co-op and the Canadian Law and Society Association. Refreshments will be available at 9am while supplies last. The doors will close at 9:30am for an Elders’ opening.