AVTTS Film: Goodwin�s Way w/ Neil Vokey

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Monday, June 20th, 2016
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Mon, Jun 20th, 7-9pm, AV Transition Town Society Film: Goodwin’s Way with guest speaker Neil Vokey Neil Vokey, Film Maker, will share his tale of resource extraction and labour struggles with an enthusiastic crowd in Port Alberni, a true tale for our times. When highway signs commemorating folk hero Ginger Goodwin disappear, the documentary Goodwin’s Way finds the nearby Cumberland, B.C. at a crossroads with its history.

Goodwin, a rebellious labour activist, was slain by police under mysterious circumstances almost a century ago, yet his name still elicits wounds that date back to the town’s coal mining past. Residents weave an oral tapestry of fact and myth - some remember Goodwin as a criminal, while many others admire the ideals of equality and self-determination he fought for.

Those ideals have long been overshadowed by Cumberland’s dependency on a resource economy, which are chronicled from boom times to bust. Now, as young families set their sights on building a sustainable generation, a new proposal for a coal mine threatens to make history repeat itself. Amidst an effort to oppose the project, residents young and old reconnect with Ginger Goodwin’s legacy - his ‘way’.

Goodwin’s Way straddles the dividing line between historical and current-event documentary genres to tell the story of a community fighting for autonomy over its past, and its future.

FMI [email protected] http://www.avtransitiontown.org/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/avtts/ www.goodwinsway.com Admission by donation.

FMI http://alberni.ca/events/18161 Char’s 19+ Lounge open 5:30-12midnight 365+ days a year www.charslanding.com Char’s Landing, 4815 Argyle @5th. Port Alberni V9Y 1V9