The Circle Education is celebrating International Women’s Day 2025 with the screening of the documentary ‘The Day Iceland Stood Still’ on Saturday, March 8th.
Almost fifty years ago, on the morning of October 24, 1975, 90 percent of Iceland’s women walked off their jobs and out of their homes. Fed up with the gaping inequity between the value of women’s labour and women’s wages, female employees, wives and mothers just stopped working, cooking, cleaning and looking after their children. The country came to an abrupt standstill, but a revolution had begun.
Join us for a Saturday matinee, co-hosted by the Salt Spring Film Festival, at The Fritz to watch this gripping and gleeful story about women fighting for equality and transforming their position in society.
‘The Day Iceland Stood Still’ was recently voted best documentary at the Victoria Film Festival.
When: Saturday, March 8th, 3 pm
Where: The Fritz Cinema
Tickets ($5, cash only) available at the door
Film Rating (PG – course language).
