Orange Shirt Day Sugarcane Screening
Tuesday, September 30, 2025 5:00–7:30 PM
Description
Orange Shirt Day is held on September 30 of every year. It is a day to remember the boarding school experience of Indigneous students in North America. There will be two events held this day.There will be a screening of Sugarcane at 5:00pm in the Women's Center followed by a Q&A session. Dinner will be provided.From their website:A stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life, Sugarcane, the debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning. In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada. After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation and abuse many children experienced at these segregated boarding schools was brought to light, sparking a national outcry against a system designed to destroy Indigenous communities. Set amidst a groundbreaking investigation, Sugarcane illuminates the beauty of a community breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma and finding the strength to persevere.Click here to see the trailer.Cosponsored by ALANA, NAST, and EDUC.