15th Annual Corporate Golden Piggy Awards

[Vancouver Island Human Rights Coalition]

15th Annual Corporate Golden Piggy Awards set for April 1st, All Fools Day.

The 15th Annual Corporate Golden Piggy Awards are set for presentation on, of all days, All Fools Day. The show that pokes fun at the rich and the powerful and has been entertaining activists on South Vancouver Island since 1997 will be held on April 1st, 2:00 PM at St. Ann's Academy Auditorium in Victoria, Coast Salish Territory. St. Ann's Academy is at 835 Humboldt Street.

"More than anything it's a chance for progressives to get together to have a good laugh," says show producer Art Farquharson. "I've been with this show since its inception and we're not changing anyone's mind. Our audience members are the hardened fighters and the downtrodden. They're the 99%. Trade unionists, peace activists, liberation theologists, communists, socialists, anarchists, Occupy Victorians, Raging Grannies, indebted students, harm reductionists, feminists etc. etc. etc."

The great American commentator and humourist Molly Ivins once said, "Satire is the weapon of the powerless against the powerful." "Anyone who has been disciplined in the workplace for lampooning the boss knows this is true. The powerful are especially sensitive to being laughed at," says Farquharson.

So the poor and struggling and the visionaries who see the the Emperor has no clothes will gather on All Fools Day, give away Cochons d'Or to those who seem to have it all, sing a few songs and reinvigorate their efforts with some laughter. Formal Attire is optional.

Where: St. Ann's Academy Auditorium, 835 Humboldt Street

When: April 1st, 2012, 2:00 PM.

For further information contact:

Art Farquharson, Producer
Phone: 250-384-6893, email: af...@telus.net

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Vancouver Island Human Rights Coalition
418-620 View Street, Victoria, BC
Coast Salish Territories, V8W 1J6
Tel. (250) 382-3012  Fax (250) 380-7311
http://vihrc.org


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