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MEDIA JUNE•2015
DEMOCRACY
lekwungen territory
victoria, bc DAYS
Media, Democracy, and You:
How to Find the News that Feeds us.
Saturday, June 6
Victoria Event Centre
Doors at 8:30 am • Free admission • 9 - 5 pm
A remarkable day of panels and presentations featuring an
outstanding roster of journalists, media producers, politicians,
communication scholars, activists, and social justice advocates.
Designed to provoke interest and generate debate about the
effects that our media choices have on our civil society.
Confirmed participants for our main event:
Janine Bandcroft (Winds of Change, CFUV) • David Black (Communication theorist, Royal Roads University)
Zoe Blunt (Founder/Director: Forest Action Network) • Chris Cook (Gorilla Radio, CFUV) • Diane Dakers
(Author, CHEK Republic: A Revolution in Local Television) • Jack Etkin (Shaw TV host, Citizen's Forum)
Kay Gallivan (Multimedia journalist) • Brian Gordon (Fair Vote Canada) • Jason Guille (Producer, Stream of
Consciousness) • Mandy Leith (Director, Open Cinema) Frank Lopez (Producer, SubMedia) Andrew MacLeod
(Legislative bureau chief, The Tyee) • Robin Mathews (Critic and web-columnist, Vive le Canada)
Liz McArthur (News Director, CFUV) • Josh Paterson (Executive Director, B.C. Civil Liberties Association)
Briony Penn (Columnist, Focus Magazine) • Jo-Ann Roberts (Green Party candidate, former CBC Radio host)
Peter Sandmark (Executive Director, MediaNet) • Bruce Saunders (Producer, Movie Mondays)
• Daphne Shaed (Breaking Binary, CFUV) • Tom Shandel (Producer, Getaway Films)
• PLUS •
A schedule of FREE MEDIA WORKSHOPS sponsored by MediaNet and CFUV.
Watch for Tasha Diamant’s performance of Skin in the Game on Thursday, June 4 at Sunset Labs.
Find out more on the web: www.mddvictoria.org
Thanks to
our friendly
sponsors:
MediaRare
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