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Orphans 2022 – Speakers, Presentations, Screenings
UPDATE (May 10, 2022): The full Program and Schedule is now here. We are happy to announce this slate of speakers, presentations, and screenings for the Orphans 2022 Counter-Archives. Registration is open (to all!) for the June 15-18 event at Concordia University in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal. Limited to 160 seats. Yes, the symposium is greenlit for an in-person gathering! Most of the speakers will be together in the theater, with a few presenting via video link. (Schedule of themed sessions forthcoming.) The symposium begins on the evening of Wednesday, June 15, followed by three days and nights of presentations
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Orphans 2022 – Registration is Open
UPDATE. June 13, 2022. You can still register to attend the symposium in person. Day-rate is $50 to include food/drink. For locals attending only one session (sans food), no charge. To WATCH the live-stream online, register on the same site. In the first field, enter $0 payment (or a pay-what-you-will gift). The following day you will received an email with the password. Log in to the Vimeo “live event” page by pasting https://vimeo.com/event/2190360 in a new browser window during symposium hours. Schedule here. Some screenings (7 short films and the 55-minute documentary Women of Suriname) will not be live-streamed due
Update on symposium plans (Jan 13, 2022)
Gentle colleagues! We write to update you on our current discussion regarding the Orphan Film Symposium on Counter-Archives, to be held at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, June 15 to 18, 2022. (If you submitted a proposal, you will receive an email soon.) The Orphans 2022 organizing committee is watching developments regarding COVID as the pandemic determines so much about what we can do together in June. The current situation is difficult as we have such a big, beautiful international community. While COVID knows no borders, our governments do and traveling into and out of Canada could prove challenging. Indeed, at