Community Activism on Screen:
Home Safe Toronto
With guest speaker Laura Sky, a veteran filmmaker with a taste for social justice

Thursday March 25, 2010
7:30 p.m.
Winchevsky Centre, 585 Cranbrooke Avenue

"Home Safe Toronto" is the second in the Sky Works Foundation series of documentaries that deal with how Canadian families live with the threat and the experience of homelessness. It shows how the housing crisis in Canada is an expression of the increasing economic and job insecurity that has devastated the manufacturing sector in the Greater Toronto Area and throughout southern Ontario. This 2009 film reveals the consequences of this 'new economy', where families surviving on low wages with no benefits, or on dwindling social assistance, are faced with the terrible choice between keeping a roof over their heads or putting food on the table.

Toronto Filmmaker Laura Sky will facilitate a post-film discussion.

Laura founded Sky Works Charitable Foundation in 1983, a non-profit documentary organization that produces documentaries dealing with contemporary issues, and uses them as community development tools to help concerned communities create strategies for change.

Admission is free. Popcorn and drinks will be available for purchase.
For reservations call 416-789-5502.