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| Fair Trade Fair & Film Festival |
| Country: Canada |
| Host: Edmonton Small Press Association & Transfair Canada |
| Where: TransAlta Arts Barns (Fringe Theatre Adventures) |
| Venue Address: 10330 84 Ave., Edmonton |
| when: Saturday, May 19 from Noon-6:00pm |
Event Details:
In celebration of National Fair Trade Weeks 2007, ESPA presents the 4th Annual Fair Trade Fair & Film Festival:
"Fair Trade Works! Ten years of Changing Lives"
FEATURING: An all-day Fair Trade & Info-Fair represented by dozens of artisans, non-profit organizations and independent ethical businesses who work towards increasing awareness about the Fair Trade movement and economic equality.
- plus - Three Extraordinary Films (short bios below):
12:30 pm: BLACK GOLD
http://www.blackgoldmovie.com
2:30 pm: MAQUILAPOLIS (City of Factories)
http://www.maquilopolis.com
4:00 pm: WORKINGMAN'S DEATH
http://www.workingmansdeath.com
Admission: Free admission to Fair; $5-$8 suggested donation for films (sliding scale); Free admission to low-income
BLACK GOLD asks us to wake up and smell the coffee, to face the unjust conditions under which our favorite drink is produced and to decide what we can do about it. The film traces the tangled trail from the two billion cups of coffee consumed each day back to the 70,000 Ethiopian coffee farmers who produce the beans.
- "Black Gold is a moving and eye-opening look into the
80-billion-dollar global coffee industry, where the spoils of overpriced lattes and cappuccinos are sparsely shared with the farmers who make it all possible." - Sundance Film Festival.
* Please bring your own coffee mug for Fair Trade certified coffee, tea & hot chocolate.
MAQUILAPOLIS: Workers in Tijuana's multinational factories confront labour violations, environmental devastation and urban chaos. Carmen Duran lives with her kids in a house she made of abandoned garage doors. Her town, in the far northwestern corner of Mexico, is called
Maquilapolis, or City of Factories. She works for a global corporation like millions of other women in her case Sanyo for $68 a week. In a world preying on women, it takes the women themselves to fight back.
They use video cameras to document how globalization has transformed their city and to share their hopes for the future.
- "A portrait of the perils of globalization that admirably seeks new forms of expression... a stirring work that'll provoke genuine outrage." - The New York Times
WORKINGMAN'S DEATH: Today's manual laborers are no longer celebrated with hymns of praise. They must be content with encouraging one another that backbreaking work is better than no work at all... In the Ukraine, a group of men spend long days crawling through cramped shafts of illegal coal mines. Sulfur gatherers in Indonesia brave the smoky heat of an active volcano and the treacherous trip back down. Blood, fire and stench are routine for workers at a crowded open-air slaughterhouse in Nigeria. Pakistani men use little more than their bare hands to dismantle an abandoned oil tanker for scrap metal. Steelworkers in China fear they could be a dying breed... Five portraits of heavy manual labor, increasingly less visible in our technological 21st Century.
- "It's a blistering examination of the extremes to which honest workers will go to earn their daily bread... Frightening, stomach turning and deeply moving..." - Hollywood Reporter
Fair Trade does work and gives results - it is a practical tool for decreasing poverty in developing countries. Fair Trade works for producers and workers in the South, but it also works for the environment, for communities and for the consumer. We will be providing information about concrete examples of how Fair Trade is making a difference, both in the South and the North. We will again be promoting the global "Make Poverty History" campaign, established to put an end to poverty by focusing on four key sectors: more and better aid, trade justice, canceling the debt and ending child poverty in Canada. The campaign has mobilized more than 250,000 Canadians and 800 organizations
in the past 2 years.
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Contact Details:
(780) 434-9236 / contact@edmontonsmallpress.org
http://www.edmontonsmallpress.org
(Details posted in 'what's new' section)
http://www.transfair.ca
http://www.makepovertyhistory.ca |
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