Exiled Mothers: film screening

Humanities Research Unit presents:

Exiled Mothers: a film by Sharon Alward

Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Thorvaldson Building Room 159, University of Saskatchewan

Exiled Mothers takes us on the artist’s journey to recover her own repressed memories as she examines the social construction of relinquishment, adoption, and motherhood. It introduces us to many other Canadian mothers, who as young women—caught between love for their children and a social snare that demanded surrender—shared the same experience as Sharon that takes a lifetime to resolve. More than a film about adoption and loss, we witness an important period in the history of Western women as we emerge from the fog of a time when the judgment of so many willfully separated masses of mothers from their children. -Karen Lynn, President of the Canadian Council of Natural Mothers

Free Admission. All are welcome.

For further information, contact Len Findlay:

len.findlay@usask.ca or 306-966-2573

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