Golden: Ageism Awareness Event - MORE TICKETS RELEASED!

Additional FREE Tickets added to Golden: Ageism Awareness on March 9 @ Calgary Central Library and online 

Age-Friendly Calgary & THIRD ACTion Film Festival will be hosting a screening of scenes from the documentary ‘Golden: The End of Ageism,’ which looks at the growing global movement to end age bias and reawaken the joys of getting older. Screenings will be followed by a facilitated discussion on ageism.

March 9 from noon-2pm. Online or in-person at the Central Library, 800 3^rd Street SE. If attending an in-person event, please arrive 30 minutes in advance as the film viewing starts promptly at the advertised time. More information about host partner locations across Alberta (including Calgary) are available in the link below. 

Get in-person or virtual tickets here: https://www.showpass.com/s/events/all/?q=THIRD+ACTion 

Age Friendly Communities across Alberta are proud to present this event.

We've made progress with the other “isms” but what about ageism? Why? Everyone is aging, not one of us is getting any younger. Yet the negative stereotypes persist….in the workplace, healthcare, media and beyond. For minorities, age bias is discrimination “double jeopardy.” There is a growing global movement to end age bias and reawaken the joys of getting older.

Film Synopsis:

Golden is a 2021 documentary about the phenomenon of ageism in Canadian society and the activists working to bring it to an end. Among them - Margaret Gillis, who is working to bring about a UN convention on the rights of older persons, the activist and writer Julia Moulden, whose focus is ageism in the workplace, Dr. Samir Sinha from Mt Sinai in Toronto who is working on ageism in the health care system and Laura Tamblyn Watts who is our voice about ageism in media. There is also a handful of first person narratives in the film, anecdotes from people who have experienced ageism in their lives directly. Golden: The End of Ageism explores this new frontier in civil rights.

Director: Scott Thompson Harper

Runtime: 46 minutes, this event will show 30 minutes of scenes from the documentary

Film Trailer