The Sidney Museum is set to show four films to complement two of its current exhibits, Displacing Differences and Lost Liberties: The War Measures Act, both of which explore the suspension of civil liberties in Canada.
On Tuesday, Oct. 22, the museum will show two films about to the internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story tells the tale of an amateur, Vancouver-based baseball team made up of Japanese-Canadian players. The team was dissolved when the Canadian government began interment in B.C. during the Second World War. The second film, Minoru: Memory of Exile, recounts the racism nine-year-old Japanese-Canadian boy Minoru Fukushima experienced following his internment.
On Friday, Nov. 8, the Island of Shadows: D'Arcy Island Leper Colony will fill the museum's screen. The documentary explores the lives of the 49 men with leprosy who were forced to live in harsh conditions on a secluded island near Sidney between 1891 and 1924.
On Thursday, Nov. 21, attendees will have a chance to watch My Doukhobor Cousins, which provides an inside look into the lives of the Doukhobors, a community of pacifistic Russian dissenters who settled in Canada in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Displacing Differences exhibit explores the history of the Piers Island penitentiary, where hundreds of Doukhobors were imprisoned in the 1930s.
All film screenings will be held in person at the Sidney Museum at 7 p.m. Admission is by donation.
For more information, visit: sidneymuseum.ca/events-programs.
