Prof. Ricardo Miranda and Prof. Emeritus Marty Lucas are guests speakers on “Practicing Socially Engaged Public Art” – a panel discussion this Thursday. October 8^th at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, 9^th Floor Skylight Conference Room from 7-9PM.  The panel discussion moderated by Gregory Sholette will have six artists share their experiences in art making in the public sphere.  The panelists are Nels Erickson, Martin Lucas, Sohhee Oh, Lucia Warck-Meister, Mashiyat Zaman, and Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga.  more info…

Prof. Emeritus Tami Gold will be screening her film Sex Work: It’s Just A Job and conversation about decriminalizing sex work. Followed by a reception.

Promoting Civil Discourse & Intellectual Dialogue Series:
Special Screening of Sex Work: It’s Just A Job

Oct. 14 | 6PM | Roosevelt House
RSVP & more info (Open to the public)

Panel: Tami Kashia Gold, Alex Vitale, Molly Simons, Tahtianna Fermin and Marla Cruz. Moderated by Chris Mitchell

The Department of Film and Media Studies presents
Sainsbury Visiting Artist: Louis Massiah

Tuesday, October 13:
Screening: TCB: Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing
6-9PM | Lang Auditorium (HN 424)
6PM: Light refreshments
6:30PM: Screening

RSVP (Open to the Public):
https://fm-tcb.eventbrite.com

Join us for a screening of TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing, a documentary biography of the influential writer, filmmaker and cultural worker. With humor and deep insight, Bambara inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to community empowerment. The film is structured as a series of lessons on cultural organizing, gleaned from Bambara’s life and shared by her friends, colleagues and students. 

Followed by a Q&A with Director Louis Massiah 

Wednesday, October 14:
Hidden Histories: Workshop on Participatory Community Media
12-1:30PM | TV Studio (HN 436)

RSVP (Open to Hunter students & alumni only):
https://fm-louis-massiah.eventbrite.com

Filmmaker Louis Massiah will show excerpts from 50 years of experiments in participatory community media – a unique form of documentary produced with communities and subjects. These works emerge out of places confronting urgent issues, and involve collaboration, negotiation, and a shared vision, allowing communities to render their own analysis of the world. Media becomes a tool for essential democratic discourse, change, and a way to confront power. 

Louis Massiah is a documentary filmmaker and the founder of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, a media arts center that provides production workshops to community groups and emerging independent media makers. 

Co-Sponsored by the Hunter College departments of Art and Art History, Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, English and Women and Gender Studies.