GIFT - Documentary Screening + Group Dialogue

You are warmly and personally invited to a very special event! We've arranged an intimate screening of a gorgeous new feature-length documentary film, GIFT.

Best of all, director Robin McKenna will be with us to answer questions after the film and to join the conversation about how it informs and affirms our own perspectives and practice of generosity and sharing our gifts. This dialogue circle will be guided by renowned author and facilitator Michelle Holliday. The dialogue will be bilingual.

About the Film

Inspired by Lewis Hyde’s beloved classic The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World, GIFT is a tribute to something that can’t be measured or counted, bought or sold. An intimate exploration of real-life gift economies, it’s a reflection on the creative process, the reasons we labor in service of our gifts, and a celebration of the imagination. Watch the trailer here and visit the film’s website here.

When: Tuesday October 23 from 6pm to 10pm.

Where: Le Couvent has generously made their theatre room and dining room available to us, for the viewing and the potluck-meal-conversation after the film. The retreat center is located in 2043 Chemin de la Gare, Val-Morin, QC J0T 2R0.

How Much: As an invitation into your own practice of generosity, we will welcome your daana-style (anonymous) contributions. Proceeds will go to the film’s director, Robin McKenna. In the same spirit, dinner will be POTLUCK.  Dinner details and carpooling to be organized nearer the event.

RSVP: Please reserve your place with the link below.

We really hope you can join us for an incredibly inspiring film, and what will surely be a deeply meaningful conversation to follow.

Special thanks to the Val David/Val-Morin community for making this event possible.

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Robin McKenna is director, producer and writer of GIFT.  Recently she directed a short film with actress Geneviève Bujold, produced by the Canada’s NFB for the Governor General’s Awards. She is currently making Thanadoula, a short animated documentary fairytale, about a real-life “death doula” who finds her calling through the loss of her beloved older sister. She is producer and director of Medicine, a feature-length documentary in production about ayahuasca, medicine and healing.

Robin grew up in Montréal, Canada, and began making films with La Course destination monde, travelling around the world alone with a camera making short, creative documentaries. Her film The Great War Experience won Yorkton Film Festival’s Founders’ Award in 2007, and her cinematography credits include City of Borders (Berlinale, Hot Docs 2009) and The Take with Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis (AFI Best Documentary 2004). She has been a filmmaker-mentor in indigenous communities with Wapikoni Mobile.

ABOUT daana: daana is a social experiment offering community-sourced wellness activities as a practice ground for generosity. We aspire to enable everyone on Earth to have easy access to wellness and community. And along the way, we want to contribute powerfully to cultivating a generous world - the world we all want to live in. Learn more at www.globaldaana.org.