Women in Focus
Organization
Alternate Names
Vancouver Women in Focus SocietyType
Art Gallery, Non Profit, Video Distributor1974 – 1993
About
The Vancouver Women in Focus Society, commonly known as Women in Focus, was established as a non-profit society in 1974 and originally started as part of the Women's Office at the University of British Columbia. It began when two members of the Women's Office Collective, Jeanette A. Auger and Marion Barling, taught a workshop in video skills and produced a special series of half hour programmes entitled Women in Focus. The original function of the group was to “support the production of feminist video and film, and to encourage women artists in the making of images which reflected their lives and experiences.” The group then further expanded out into distribution and in 1975 became the first national feminist film and video distribution centre in Canada.Adapted from UBC Library Rare Books and Special Collections, 2024
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