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Founded in 1972, One World Arts is a volunteer-based, charitable organization working to create awareness on world issues. With a focus on the media and performing arts, our programs are designed to engage citizens of all ages. It is our conviction that education through the arts is the most powerful and effective method of public engagement.
Central to our mission is to work together with Canadian artists and with organizations involved in human rights, social justice and the environment to further public education on issues that concern our global communities. To carry out this mission, we run or help with several programs such as the One World Awesome Arts, One World Film Festival. One World Radio & Reel Food Film Festival.
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JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST SCREENING OF THE YEAR!
NEVER COME BACK : A Year in the Life of the Roma in Canada
Documentary Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Wednesday April 11th, 2012
6:30PM - 9:30PM
Library and Archives Auditorium
395 Wellington Street, Ottawa
Admission by donation
Please join us for our first screening of the year, the locally-produced documentary on Roma refugees, Never Come Back by Karl Nerenberg and Malcolm Hamilton. Following the screening, a panel discussion on Canada's Refugee Policy vis à vis the Roma will take place, featuring guest speakers Peter Showler, former chair of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Jack Jedwab, head of the Association for Canadian Studies and associate producer of the documentary, and Karl Nerenberg, the filmmaker.
Although the focus of the film is a year in the life of the Roma community in Canada ( in Toronto and Hamilton) we also travelled to Hungary and the Czech Republic to examine with our own and our own camera's eyes the actual situation of the Roma in those countries. Very few Canadian journalists have made that trip to form their own judgement of the human rights situation of the Roma who are fleeing their countries for Canada.
