Please RSVP below.
Film to be screened virtually: The World is Bright ( Ying Wang\, 2019). Link to film will be provided upon registration.
Time and place of panel discussion: MOSAIC headquarters\, February 1\, 2023\, 6-7:30pm (doors open at 5:30p m)\; Address is 5575 Boundary Road\, Vancouver.
Summary:
Are you a frontline mental health worker supporting immigrants and refugees in your community? Are you familiar with\, or do you wish to lear n more about issues related to mental health and the settlement process? If so\, you are cordially invited to a virtual screening of the documentary < em>The World is Bright (Ying Wang\, 2019) followed by a public panel discussion about the fi lm one week following the screening. This event will be co-hosted by the UB C Centre for Migration Studies (CMS)’ Community University Partnerships wor king group\, and MOSAIC\, the BC organization providing inclusive settlemen t and employment services for newcomers. The event is free and open to the public\, and light refreshments will served to those attending the panel di scussion in person. Registration is required. Please register below.
A link to film will be sent to registrants on Ja nuary 25\, 2023. They will have 1 week to view at no cost and at their own convenience. Registrants are then invited to attend a public panel discussi on of the film at MOSAIC Headquarters on February 1\, 2023. Five panelists including the filmmaker\, three mental health professionals and educators\, and a settlement service professional will be invited as panelists to guid e the discussion.
Panelists (bios below):
(1) Panelist: Ying Wang< /strong>
Growing up in China in the pre-di gital era\, Ying is part of the generation who matured during China's drast ic modern transformation. After graduating from university\, Ying worked as a journalist and photographer. In her late 20s\, she first came to Canada as an international student\, and then became a landed immigrant.
As a migrant living through dynamic shifts in polit ical power across the world\, Ying has always been drawn to projects that c an reveal historic\, geopolitical complexity from a global perspective. Her first film Sisters is a docu-drama based on her younger sister’s struggle with eating disorders. The World is Bright is her second feature that tackles t he topic of immigration and mental health from a broader sociocultural pers pective.
While making films\, Ying has bee n actively working in the community. She is on the board of the Racial Equi ty Screen Office (RESO) and Moving Images Distribution\, and serves as pres ident on the board of Cinevolution Media Arts Society\, an organization she co-founded in 2007 in Richmond\, BC.
Jaswant Guzder is currently a retired Professor\, form erly appointed to McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine\, Department of P sychiatry. She remains active in both Division of Child Psychiatry and Divi sion of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry\, and is currently a visiting p rofessor at the University of British Columbia\, working in Victoria BC as psychiatrist for the: Vancouver Island Center for Refugee and Immigrant Men tal Health and Indigenous Child and Youth Health Services. She was former H ead of Jewish General Hospital Child Psychiatry\, Director of Childhood Dis orders Hospital\, first Director of Fellowship Program in Family Therapy Re sidency Training\, founding Co-Director of the Jewish General Cultural Cons ultation Service. She has had an active role in teaching and training at Mc Gill and as an Associate of the McGill School of Social Work. Her research work is mainly focused on children at risk and cultural psychiatry. She is active in global health initiatives and training\, including the Dream a Wo rld cultural therapy project for high-risk children since 2005 with Univers ity of West Indies. Her teaching and training work include ongoing work in India\, Nepal\, Turkey\, India\, Italy and Jamaica\, collaborating with loc al and McGill partners. Her research and clinical initiatives in global chi ld mental health include numerous articles and book chapters as well as the co-edited volume\, Cultural Consultation: Encounter the Other in Mental He alth Care. Her book in collaboration with the Museo Laboratorio Della Mente was related to her art residency in Rome 2017. As an artist\, clinician an d advocate in mental health work she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Jubile e Medal.
(3) Panelist: Miriam Juri gova
Miriam Jurigova (she/ her) i s a public interest advocate. Miriam has worked in the non-profit sector in mental health and immigrant services since obtaining her Juris Doctor in L aw from the University of Ottawa. In addition to her law degree\, Miriam al so acquired an Associate Certificate in Leadership & Conflict Resolution fr om the Justice Institute of British Columbia.
Throughout her career she has assisted clients with poverty law and imm igration law. Her current employment is with MOSAIC’s Legal Advocacy Progra m as the Manger and the Senior Legal Advocate. Her previous volunteer invol vements have included Amnesty International’s Refugee Network and the Red C ross’s Sudan Campaign. She also currently volunteers with Northern Hope Dog Rescue society.
Miriam has firsthand expe rience of growing up in Canada as an immigrant\, arriving with her family a s overseas refugees to Canada when she was a child. She has worked in the s ocial justice field since graduating from university\, and in addition to a dvocating for refugee rights\, particularly family reunification\, she is p assionate about environmental\, conservation and animal rights issues.
< p style="font-weight: 400\;">(4) Michael LeeMichael Lee is a Professor of Teaching in the Departmen t of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy\, University of British Columbia. He is also the Associate Head of Educational Affairs of the Depar tment. Michael has been an advocate for psychosocial rehabilitation and rec overy\, and received the Ambassador Award from Psychosocial Rehabilitation Canada in recognition of his pioneering work in advancing recovery practice for people living with mental illness. In the past ten years\, he has been bringing psychosocial rehabilitation concepts and practice to countries wh ere recovery for people living with mental illness is not fully established . One of his current projects is on supporting post-secondary students with disabilities to enter into health professional training and practice as he alth care providers.
(5) Moderator : Nancy Clark
D r. Clark is director of social justice studies and assistant professor at t he Faculty of Human and Social Development\, School of Nursing at the Unive rsity of Victoria\, British Columbiahttp://oac.uvic.ca/nancyclark. Dr. Clark is an alumna of the Liu Insti tute for Global Issues at UBC and Intersections in Mental Health and Addict ion Research Training with Canadian Institute of Health Research. Dr. Clark ’s research is informed by social justice\, intersectionality\, inclusion o f patient population groups in mental health research\, and equity-oriented health policy. Critical ethnographic and community based participatory act ion research methods are used in her work with structurally vulnerable grou ps\, including groups affected by displacement and intersections of social determinants of mental health conditions. Dr. Clark is also an affiliated r esearcher at the University of British Columbia\, (UBC) Center for Migratio n Studies.
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