Thu Feb 18 - 7:00 PM
PANEL DISCUSSION: Climate Change and the Far North

The Copenhagen Climate Conference has brought the issue of global warming closer to the world’s consciousness.

Having just returned from the Arctic, Winnipeg filmmaker and scientist Ian Mauro (Seeds of Change), will discuss his new documentary work in progress which he is co-creating with Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen). 

This community-based documentary video, research, and filmmaking project values the important contributions the Inuit peoples have made regarding climate change impacts and its associated adaptation strategies.By interviewing elders and other locals, Mauro and Kunuk document health, environment and wildlife issues related to climate change.

Other panellists will include Danny Blair, Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Winnipeg and Co-Chair of Climate Change Connection (Manitoba’s principal climate change outreach organization) and Curtis Hull, Manitoba Project Manager for the Climate Change Connection.

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