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Indigenous Film Mawio’mi at Acadia University

September 28 - October 4, 2025

Join Acadia Students hosting this public event in partnership with the AcadiaU Welkaqnik Indigenous Gathering Space, the Town of Wolfville, Acadia U programs and departments—Community Development, Nutrition and Dietetics, Politics, Sociology, Women & Gender Studies—and the Vaughn Memorial Library.

Everyone is welcome and all the film screenings are free.

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Sep
28
Sunday, September 28, 2025
6:30 PM to
Sunday, September 28, 2025
9:00 PM
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Film Screening: Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

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Indigenous Film Mawio’mi at Acadia University
Given this is the 35th - anniversary - year of the 1990 'Oka crisis' we begin the mawio'mi with the film Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance; it is a 1993 feature-length documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin. Everyone is welcome and all the film screenings are free.
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K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre (Auditorium)
32 University Ave
Wolfville , NS
B4P 1X9

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Sep
29
Monday, September 29, 2025
6:00 PM to
Monday, September 29, 2025
9:00 PM
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Film Screening: Angry Inuk; Twice Colonized

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Indigenous Film Mawio’mi at Acadia University
Angry Inuk Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril examines Inuit's fight to defend their culture. Twice Colonized profiles Aaju Peter, an Inuk lawyer and activist who has lived in both Greenland and Nunavut, documenting both her activism for Inuit rights and her personal struggles. Everyone is welcome and...
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K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre (Auditorium)
32 University Ave
Wolfville , NS
B4P 1X9

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Sep
30
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
4:00 PM to
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
9:30 PM
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Film Screening: Sugarcane; The Unforgotten; Indian Horse

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Indigenous Film Mawio’mi at Acadia University
Sugarcane, an award-winning documentary. Director's statement: "From the outset, we knew that SUGARCANE needed to convey how the past is present for the survivors of residential schools and their descendants." The Unforgotten is a shot documentary film with funding and support from the Canadian...
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K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre (Auditorium)
32 University Ave
Wolfville , NS
B4P 1X9

Directions