Honey Bee Q&A Recording

This May, for #SexualAssaultPreventionMonth we are releasing recordings of parts of our 2021 Chelsea’s Virutial Series. First up, click here to watch the Panel and Q&A from our Honey Bee Film Screening!

In March 2021, the Waterloo Region Crime Prevention Council organized a series of 8 virtual events over 7 days alongside The Sexual Assault Support Centre of Waterloo Region, MT Space, and various other supporting organizations. This series was highlighting the Anti-Human Trafficking Program at SASCWR, who reported a 27% increase in requests for support for online exploitation since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.

This series included panels, play readings, workshops, and even a film screening and Q&A. In 2019, WRCPC presented a film screening of Honey Bee alongside our first performance run of the play Chelsea’s Story. Over 150 people registered to watch the film and attend the Q&A with filmmaker Sally Karam, Melissa Hern from the Victim Witness Assistance Program of Kitchener and Guelph, and an advocate with lived experience named Michelle Furgiuele.

While the global pandemic moved us online, virtual events removed many barriers to attend. The majority of attendees were local, 20% tuned in from the United States and 2% watched from another continent! This event had an incredibly engaging Q&A session, and we’ve uploaded the recording of the Honey Bee: Information and Panel Discussion for you to watch as well as the Honey Bee Panel Transcript of the Q&A. If you would like to watch the film Honey Bee, it will be available on the CBC network or you can purchase it through iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Vudu, and Vimeo On Demand.

For more information about these events, links to other recordings and resources, and instructions for how to bring the play Chelsea’s Story to your school please visit Chelsea’s Recap on our website.