What: World Water Day Resource Fair, Film Screening & Expert Dialogue
Date: March 19th, 2026
Where: Student Union Building, University of Victoria
Cost: Free
We’ve got a three-part celebration planned for World Water Day.
Join us for all or some of what’s on offer!
DATE
Thursday, March 19th, 2026
WHERE
University of Victoria
Resource Fair: Michèle Pujol Room, Student Union Building
Film Screening & Dialogue: Cinecenta, Student Union Building
TIME
Resource Fair: 3:30-4:30pm
Film Start: 5pm
Dialogue: right after the film
Our celebrations will begin with a Watershed Security Resource Fair in the Student Union Building.
Then, we’ll gather at Cinecenta for a screening of the new film Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again (2025).
Immediately following the film, Laura Brandes (Communications Director, POLIS Water Sustainability Project) will facilitate a dialogue and Q&A with special guests writer/director Lyana Patrick (Stellat’en First Nation) and SȾHENEP Adam Olsen (Former MLA/Tsartlip First Nation).
If you have any questions, please email Erin Owens at [email protected]
PIZZA & RESOURCE FAIR
3:30pm to 4:30pm, 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 Nechako together. Stop by our Watershed Security Resource Fair from 3:30pm to 4:30pm in the Michèle Pujol Room, Student Union Building, featuring community organizations, campus groups and research labs, local government, and environmental consultants.
FILM SCREENING:
NECHAKO: IT WILL BE A BIG RIVER AGAIN (90min)
Welcome at 5pm, Cinecenta, Student Union Building
Join us at Cinecenta at 5pm for a special World Water Day screening of Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again (2025). After seven decades, two Indigenous nations reach a turning point in their historic legal fight to reclaim the Nechako River and the way of life it once sustained. Nechako is a powerful chronicle of resistance and renewal, reminding us that survival must serve everyone and the health of our lands and waters is inseparable from our own.
Nechako is provided courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada, Lantern Films, and Experimental Forest Films.
MODERATED CONVERSATION
Immediately following the film, Cinecenta, Student Union Building
Immediately following the film, Laura Brandes (Communications Director, POLIS Water Sustainability Project) will facilitate a dialogue and Q&A with special guests writer/director Lyana Patrick (Stellat’en First Nation) and SȾHENEP Adam Olsen (Former MLA/Tsartlip First Nation).
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