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In-person Arts & Culture

Janice Ian: Breaking Silence

Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025
7:00pm to 9:00pm

Part of: Broad View International Film Festival

Garneau Theatre

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Organized by: Broad View International Film Festival

Nov.
13

The Edmonton premiere of a documentary about 1970s singer-songwriter Janice Ian, with a livestream Q&A with director Varda Bar-Kar followed by an opening night reception.

In the mid-60s, Janis Ian, a tiny teenage Jewish singer-songwriter from New Jersey, scores a controversial hit single called "Society's Child," about an interracial love relationship. The song launches her illustrious career but also ignites death threats, plunging her into an emotional tailspin—only to emerge from the ashes in the 1970s with an even bigger hit, "At Seventeen," a song ahead of its time in confronting lookism and bullying.

Janis overcomes a host of obstacles—embezzlement, record industry misogyny, and heartbreak—to find love and produce an indelible body of searingly honest songs that earn her a devoted following and critical acclaim.

Garneau Theatre

8712 109 Street NW
Edmonton, AB, T6G 1E9