Free Event

The Spirit Who Swims is a love manifesto to Salmon, foregrounding their spiritual and material importance to Indigenous Peoples along the Fraser River. Through stunning aerials and vivid underwater cinema, The Spirit Who Swims is an urgent call to rethink our relationship with the natural world.

Immediately following the film, Laura Brandes (Communications Director, POLIS Water Sustainability Project) will facilitate a dialogue and Q&A with special guests Bev Sellars (film producer/co-director; former Chief Xatśūll Nation), Robert Clifford (Co-Academic Director, Indigenous Legal Studies, Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia), Deborah Curran (Executive Director, Environmental Law Centre, University of Victoria), and Garry Tutte (film co-director/cinematographer).

Before the film (3:30 to 4:45pm), guests are also invited to stop by our Water Sustainability Resource Fair in the Michèle Pujol Room, Student Union Building. Join us for pizza and networking with water leaders and champions from across campus and the broader community before we watch the film together.

This event is co-hosted by the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance, Centre for Global Studies, Environmental Law Centre, CIFAL Victoria, UVic Sustainability Project, and Watershed Watch Salmon Society.