Credit: Film provided courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
Film Screening and Conversation with Anushay Malik
View the film A Time to Rise about farmworkers in the early 1980s in British Columbia.
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A Time To Rise, directed and produced by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Monro, captures the height of the farmworker protests that occurred in the Fraser Valley in the 1980s. The film documents these movements and shares the stories of people who endured exploitive working and living conditions. In parallel to the demonstrations, the film documents the activities of the Canadian Farmworkers Union (CFU) as a response to the protests. Made over a period of two years, the film is a testimony to the progress of the farmworker movements and the foundational work the CFU laid for future regulations to be put in place.
The film is featured in Punjabi with English subtitles. Some material and language may not be suitable for all children. Film provided courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
The film screening will be followed by a conversation between labour historian Anushay Malik and Gallery Assistant Curator Jas Lally.
This event is in conjunction with the exhibition Jagdeep Raina: Ghosts In The Fields.
About Anusha Malik
Dr. Anushay Malik is a social historian who works on labour, migration, and global anti-colonial movements. She is interested in the exploration of multiple archival registers to explore how people make meaning from the stories they have access to as well as the stories that power has hidden from their view. Recently, she has delved into public history and co-curated two exhibitions that both employ counter-storytelling as a method to highlight cross-border narratives of migration and resistance that states are not invested in telling. Kaghazi Kashtiyan (Paper Boats) (Indus Valley Art Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan 2023) focuses on Bengali migrants in Pakistan who have been rendered stateless and Truths Not Often Told (Burnaby Village Museum, Burnaby, Canada 2023–2025) focuses on South Asian migration to Canada. Her courses attempt to involve students in this work by taking them on museum visits and exposing them to curatorial and public history work.