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DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 6 PM. Film begins at 6:30 PM.\n\nThis is a rare opportunity 
 to experience the film in community, on a big screen and share a 
 conversation with the film directors.\n\nSILA—The life within 
 everything\n\nSila was filmed in Kalaallit Nunaat, Greenland, among Inuit 
 women: healers, artists, elders, tending what colonization tried to bury. 
 All year, the headlines have treated Greenland as something to acquire, a 
 resource waiting to be claimed.\n\nSila shows what the headlines can’t: a 
 living homeland, seen through Inuit eyes.\nThe powerful keep asking what 
 Greenland can give the world.\nThis film turns the question around:\n\nWhat 
 might the world learn from Greenland?\n\nIn Greenland, the word Sila holds 
 everything at once — the weather, the breath, the consciousness 
 connecting all living things. This tender, nonlinear documentary follows 
 Inuit women moving through three hundred years of Danish colonialism: 
 forced baptisms, children sent abroad to be remade, and a systematic 
 medical program that inserted contraceptive devices into girls as young as 
 thirteen, without consent, without warning, without asking. Their bodies 
 became a site of colonial administration. Their wombs, silenced.\nThe film 
 journeys into ceremony — the shaman's call home, the heartbeat of the 
 drum, the slow needle-drawn return of ancestral body markings erased within 
 a century of missionary arrival. Visually luminous and spiritually attuned, 
 Sila holds grief and remembering in the same breath: a remembering that 
 travels through bone and nerve and the long line of mothers, all the way 
 back to the first conscious human being. Still there. Still listening. View 
 the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtNCPkYyF5w\n\nTicket 
 donations support both RCNV and SAND’s vital work, and 50% of proceeds 
 after film production costs directly fund Indigenous-led initiatives in the 
 featured communities.\n\nEveryone is welcome. Complimentary tickets are 
 available to ensure no one is turned away for lack of funds. Secure your 
 complimentary ticket: 
 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYc5gOnCBS_6pPkdGi9OLda2wrkJABGdXNI5C_4bubKTC9JA/viewform\n\nContent 
 Advisory & Our Commitment to Care:\nThe films in this series honor the 
 profound resilience of Indigenous cultures while addressing the brutal 
 legacies of colonization. They may include references to physical and 
 sexual violence, substance abuse, and intergenerational trauma. We 
 acknowledge that this content can be deeply impactful, especially for those 
 with lived or inherited experiences of such trauma.\nTo foster a respectful 
 environment for all attendees, we will share clear Community Agreements at 
 each screening. These include guidelines on privacy, consent, respectful 
 sharing, and the right to exit and re-enter the space as needed. Our goal 
 is to create a container where learning and reflection can happen with care 
 for everyone's well-being.\n\nAbout the Resource Center for Nonviolence & 
 SAND:\nFor 50 years, the Resource Center for Nonviolence (RCNV) has 
 equipped our community with tools to build a just and peaceful world. 
 We’re proud to collaborate with Science and Nonduality (SAND)—an 
 organization exploring our interconnectedness and humanity’s place within 
 the web of life—to host the Santa Cruz Premieres of the Wisdom of the 
 Ancestors/Eternal Song film series. These films hold transformative power, 
 and we believe viewing and contemplating them together can help disrupt 
 cycles of violence and nurture Beloved Community.\n\nSpecial thanks to our 
 promotional partners:\nCenter for Spiritual Living, Center for World 
 Networking, Romero Institute, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH), 
 SURJ Showing Up for Racial Justice—Santa Cruz County, UCSC American 
 Indian Resource Center, UCSC Community Studies, Conflict Resolution Center 
 of Santa Cruz County and KSQD Community Radio\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/07/13/18887401.php
SUMMARY:SILA — Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), Santa Cruz Premiere
LOCATION:Resource Center for Nonviolence\n612 Ocean St\nSanta Cruz, CA 95060
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/07/13/18887401.php
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