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Politics, Identity and Education - Exploring Canadian Media

November 21, 2006

a National Media Education Week Event

brought to you by the Association for Media Literacy and the National Film Board

As part of National Media Education Week (November 20 - 24), this forum will bring together media professionals, critics and educators for a lively discussion on representation in the media—how others see us and how we see ourselves.  Our expert panel will explore media and media representation at the local, national and global levels.  

 Panelists include:

•  Linda Schuyler - Filmmaker and producer of DeGrassi Street

•  Antonia Zerbisias - The Toronto Star television and media critic

•  Cyrus Sundar Singh - Gemini award-winning filmmaker (Film Club)

•  Brian Stewart - CBC host

•  Susan Ormiston  - CBC host

5:30 - 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, November 21, 2006 
National Film Board Theatre, Richmond & John Streets

Admission:
$10.00 - Adults
$5.00 - Students
Unwaged - PWYC
AML Members - free
NFB Members - free
 

"Our ideal in media education should be to seek not the destruction of pleasure but its expansion into new and different forms of enjoyment." - Len Masterman