The eighth annual Niagara Social Justice Forum returns to Brock University this Saturday Jan. 31 for a full day of workshops and information sharing, centred around the theme of “Putting the ‘Act’ in Activism”.

Brock alumna Lysanne Louter (MA '05) won an Emmy for her documentary on conditions in Bangladesh garment factories.

Hosted by Brock’s Social Justice and Equity Studies program, the day is an open forum for individuals and groups working for social change to connect and learn from each other.

The Forum is free, accessible, and open to everyone, but participants are asked to register online in advance.

Beginning with a 9 am welcome event in Isaac’s Student Centre, the day features numerous workshops and activities, including an Information Fair over the lunch hour (11:30 am-12:50 pm) featuring more than 20 community groups.

During the course of the day there will be 12 interactive workshops on a wide range of social issues. See the Forum schedule for workshop themes and times.

At 7 pm, at the Niagara Artists Centre in downtown St. Catharines, journalist and Brock grad Lysanne Louter will screen and discuss her documentary film Made in Bangladesh, which won an International Emmy Award last fall.

Louter (MA, ’05) is a producer for CBC’s the fifth estate. After the April 2013 collapse of a Bangladeshi garment factory killed more than a thousand people, Louter and a CBC team spent months investigating conditions in factories that supply clothes for Canadian retailers. She produced and directed the resulting film, which topped an international field to win the Emmy last September in New York City.