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Yearly Archives: 2003

Barbie Nation: An Unauthorized Tour

Thursday, February 20, 2003 – 7:30 pm
USA, 1998. Director: Susan Stern
A post-screening discussion with Karen Dias MA(cand), DipC, RPC.
Co-sponsored by Awareness & Networking Around Disordered Eating (ANAD)

The Barbie doll is not just the world’s most popular toy, she’s a Rorschach test, revealing attitudes about sexuality, body image, gender roles and creativity in an increasingly mass-produced world. Journeying from Barbie conventions to anti-Barbie demonstrations, from girls’ play dates to Barbie web pages, Barbie Nation plumbs the cult of the Barbie doll, telling the Barbie stories of men, women and children.

Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter

Thursday, January 16, 2003 – 7:30pm
USA, 1994. Director: Deborah Hoffmann
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Martha Lou Donnelly
Co-sponsored by the Alzheimer Society of B.C.

With
profound insight and surprising levity, Complaints of a Dutiful
Daughter chronicles the various stages of a mother’s Alzheimer’s
disease and the evolution of a daughter’s response to the illness. As
the illness and film progress, the desire to cure the incurable gives
way to an acceptance which is finally liberating for both daughter and
mother.