In conjunction with the release of Travis Lupick's Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction, this event will bring together a politician, a mother and advocate and ...
Date/Time: Nov 16 2017, 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Vancouver, The Beaumont StudiosCost: Free
In conjunction with the release of Travis Lupick's Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction, this event will bring together a politician, a mother and advocate, a nonprofit service provider, a representative for the health-care system, a drug user, and a journalist, for a public discussion about B.C.'s fentanyl crisis.
FREE. ALL WELCOME.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Nichola Hall, co-founder, From Grief to Action
Jennifer Breakspear, executive director, Portland Hotel Society
Don Davies, member of Parliament for Vancouver Kingsway
Lorna Bird, president, Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Travis Lupick, author, Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction; staff reporter, the Georgia Straight newspaper
THE EVENT FEATURES:
- A discussion with panelists, assessing the state of the overdose epidemic, and debating what steps need to be taken next for the province to begin reducing overdose deaths. The floor will then open up for questions from the audience.
- An audience Q&A with the panelsts.
- A short performance of "Illicit: Stories from a harm reduction movement." This theatre production presented by David Mendes and Kelty McKerracher explores the realities of drug culture, prohibition, and the overdose epidemic as it's played out in the Downtown Eastside. Visit illicit.blog for info on the full cast and research team.
Copies of Fighting for Space will be available for purchase, and for Lupick to sign.
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