The Untold Story of the Suffragists of Newfoundland - written and produced by Marian Frances White

The wonderful Marian Frances White is allowing us to screen her film THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE SUFFRAGISTS OF NEWFOUNDLAND for a special one-night only fundraiser for the Armine Nutting Gosling statue project!
 
Join us on Tuesday December 12, 2023 at 7pm at the Resource Centre For The Arts LSPU Hall for a screening of the film followed by a talk-back with Marian Frances White and historian Dr. Margot Duley, moderated by Ruth Lawrence.

Tickets are $40 and include a $25 tax receipt for the charitable portion.

On sale soon from the Hall - 709-754-4531 or by visiting www.lspuhall.ca

The Untold Story was written and produced by Marian Frances White as a docu-drama celebrating the thirty-year struggle by the women of Newfoundland to win the right to vote. It was awarded third place in documentary filmmaking at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival, California in 1999.

Director of Photography: David de Volpi
Narrator: Sonya Smits
Music: Sandy Morris
Producer: M White
Director: Greg Malone
Featuring:
- Ruth Lawrence as Fannie McNeil
- Kay Anonsen as Julia Salter Earle
- Janis Spence as Armine Nutting Gosling
St. John’s is home to a rich, diverse, and vibrant urban Indigenous community. Located on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Beothuk, the lands and waters in and around the City have traditionally served as a gathering place for the Mi’kmaq. The broader region of Newfoundland and Labrador continues to be home to diverse Indigenous Peoples, including First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. We honour and pay respect to the past, present, and future caretakers of these territories.

We also must acknowledge, as we gather together this historic evening, the labour theft extracted from people of African descent, used to build European wealth and economies globally, and in the Canadian nation state, including Newfoundland and Labrador’s shipbuilding and cod fishery industries, through the violence of trans-Atlantic enslavement.

We thank both First Light and the office of the Vice-Provost of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism at Memorial University for crafting and sharing these words that provide us with important perspectives.

As Armine Nutting Gosling herself reflected, “No class, or race, or sex can have its interests attended to...​unless it is represented by direct suffrage,” and in doing so she appropriately recognized the overlap of multiple forms of discrimination.