Title: Cinema Politica – Bevel Up: Drugs, Users, and Outreach Nursing
Location: Galileo’s Gallery, Students’ Union Building
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Description: Bevel Up: Drugs, Users, and Outreach Nursing
Nettie Wild / Canada / 2008 / 40 min

Bevel Up: Drugs, Users and Outreach Nursing (Biseau vers le haut) is an educational kit (including a DVD, subtitled in French, with special features and a bilingual Teaching Guide) created to share knowledge not found in nursing schools and teaching hospitals. It shows how registered nurses working with the BC Centre for Disease Control’s Street Nurse Program provide health care to the people living in the alleys and hotels of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Designed and produced by the street nurses themselves in collaboration with community members, Bevel Up offers instructors and students access to the experience of an entire community of health care practitioners who work with drug using populations.

Bevel Up: Drugs, Users, and Outreach Nursing (Biseau vers le haut) is a co-production of the Street Nurse Program of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and the National Film Board of Canada with financial support from Health Canada and the BC Nurses Union. Created in collaboration with Canada Wild Productions Ltd.

We will also be screening the film Carts of Darkness this evening.

Carts of Darkness
Murray Siple / Canada / 2008 / 55 min

In the picture-postcard community of North Vancouver, filmmaker Murray Siple follows men who have turned bottle-picking, their primary source of income, into the extreme sport of shopping cart racing.

Enduring hardships from everyday life on the streets of Vancouver, this sub-culture depicts street life as much more than stereotypes portrayed in mainstream media. The films takes a deep look into the lives of the men who race carts, the adversity they face, and the appeal of cart racing despite the risk.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-11-24
End Time: 21:00