Salt Spring Forum Presents Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Inuit Leader & Environmental Activist

Internationally-renown Inuit leader and environmental activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier joins the Salt Spring Forum to discuss the international politics of climate change, indigenous rights, and cultural protection.

Sheila Watt-Cloutier is the former chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, which represents 160,000 Inuit in Canada, Greenland, Alaska, and Russia. She played a central role in the negotiation of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. In 2005, she took the United States to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, arguing that the failure of the George W. Bush Administration to take action against climate change violated the fundamental rights of her people.

In 2007, Sheila Watt-Cloutier and Al Gore were jointly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2015, Watt-Cloutier won the Right Livelihood Award, the so-called “Alternative Nobel”. She is the author of The Right to be Cold, which was shortlisted for all of the major Canadian non-fiction book awards in 2016.

Tickets to this event are currently on sale through the ArtSpring Box Office at 250.537.2102 and www.tickets.artspring.ca, or at Salt Spring Books. $15 Forum Members; $20 General Admission.

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