World Water Day Fair & Film Screening

We’ve got a three-part celebration planned for World Water Day!

Join us on the University of Victoria campus for all or some of what’s on offer.

DATE

Thursday, March 19th, 2026

1) Resource Fair & Pizza

3:30-4:30pm, Michèle Pujol Room, Student Union Building

Our celebrations will begin with a Watershed Security Resource Fair. Come for free pizza and networking with a diverse mix of local water champions!

2) Film Screening

5pm, Cinecenta, Student Union Building

We’ll gather at Cinecenta for a screening of Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again (2025).

3) Dialogue and Q&A

Cinecenta, Student Union Building

Immediately following the film, Laura Brandes (POLIS) will facilitate a dialogue and Q&A with writer/director Lyana Patrick (Stellat’en First Nation) and SȾHENEP Adam Olsen (Former MLA/Tsartlip First Nation).

*Registration for the film screening/Q&A is recommended but not required.*

RESOURCE FAIR & PIZZA

3:30pm to 4:30pm, Michèle Pujol Room, Student Union Building

Join us for free pizza and networking with local water leaders from across campus and the broader community before we watch Nechako together. Our Watershed Security Resource Fair will feature a diverse mix of local water champions from community organizations, campus groups and research labs, local government, and environmental consultants. Come by and say hi!

FILM SCREENING

NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN (90min)

Welcome at 5pm, Cinecenta, Student Union Building

Following our resource fair, join us for a special World Water Day screening of Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again (2025). After seven decades, two Indigenous nations reach a turning point in their historic legal fight to reclaim the Nechako River and the way of life it once sustained. Nechako is a powerful chronicle of resistance and renewal, reminding us that survival must serve everyone and the health of our lands and waters is inseparable from our own.

*Registration for the film screening/Q&A is recommended but not required.*

Nechako is provided courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada, Lantern Films, and Experimental Forest Films.

MODERATED CONVERSATION

Immediately following the film, Cinecenta, Student Union Building

Immediately following the film, Laura Brandes (Communications Director, POLIS Water Sustainability Project) will facilitate a dialogue and Q&A with special guests writer/director Lyana Patrick (Stellat’en First Nation) and SȾHENEP Adam Olsen (Former MLA/Tsartlip First Nation).

*Registration for the film screening/Q&A is recommended but not required.*

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