THANK YOU for attending our screening of “Dope is Death”!
Saturday April 9th was a BUSY evening!
We closed out the evening with a total of $2603 and 150 tickets sold. So all in all for our first community event since the pandemic started, we’re pretty pleased! We’ll be putting these funds to good use in the coming days!
We’d like to thank the wonderful folks who helped run the event:
- Mark Hoyne, the manager of the Vic Theatre
- H&H acupunks, Cydney Smith and David Gillese
- Our colleagues, Acupuncturist Carmelle LeMaistre and Herbalist Anna Jacquet
- Volunteers extraordinaire, Marina Hadland, Jordan Gibb and Cat Turnbull
- And everyone’s support of SOLID Outreach Society and the Fernwood Wellness Library through the purchase of tickets!
It was fantastic to see so many (masked) smiling faces that came to engage with all of our respective organizations and to open their minds to a chapter of Liberation Acupuncture that has been forgotten and erased. All present day acupuncture and acupuncture detox in North America would not be what it is today without the courageous, innovative and decisive contributions of the prominent figures featured in this film. It is an honor to stand on the shoulders of ancestors who also wanted nothing more than to bring acupuncture to the people! It is an honor to follow in your footsteps and to share your untold stories of quiet rebellion and self-dtermination against systemic racism.
If you’d like to do a deeper dive into the history of this film as well as current movements with Black Liberation, political discourse, drug policy and intersections of the wellness industry, check out the Dope is Death podcast!
