The New York Premiere film screening of LIGHT
11apr5:00 pm8:00 pmThe New York Premiere film screening of LIGHT
Event Details
presents The New York Premiere film screening of LIGHT Lynn Huang,
Event Details
presents
The New York Premiere film screening of LIGHT
Followed by talk back with
choreographer/dancer Lenora Lee, filmmaker/musician Tatsu Aoki, composer/saxophonist Francis Wong
Inspired by the life of Bessie M. Lee (1894 – 1955), who, after migrating to New York City, spent two years in indentured servitude, “Light” is a film in which dance, memory, music and poetry collide in a visual and aural landscape; a meditation on women being propelled into the unknown by courage and faith to risk their lives and everything they have for freedom. In “Light”, Aoki and Lee highlight the lives of women including Lee, who through the resilience and triumph over unimaginable experiences were grounding forces in the creation of the New York Chinatown community in the early 1900s.
Discussants:
David Henry Hwang, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts in the Faculty of the Arts, Columbia University and
Karen Shimakawa, Associate Professor, Performance Studies, New York University
Tuesday, April 11, 2017, 5pm
Casa Hispanica
Columbia University
612 West 116th Street
New York, NY 10027
Organized by The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, and the Department of Music.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Dance at Barnard College, the Center for Ethnomusicology, the Center for Jazz Studies, the Heyman Center for the Humanities, and the Society of Fellows for the Humanities.
Time
(Tuesday) 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Columbia University Casa Hispanica