Celebrating African People's History Month: Film Screening
Skin (2008)
Discussant: Anthony Fabian (Filmmaker)
Date: Friday, February 25, 2011
Time: 5:30 P.M
Place: Fresno State, McLane 121
Based on a true story, SKIN is one of the most moving stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa: Sandra Laing is a black child born in the 1950s to white Afrikaners, unaware of their black ancestry. Her parents are rural shopkeepers serving the local black community, who lovingly bring her up as their ‘white’ little girl. But at the age of ten, Sandra is driven out of white society. The film follows Sandra’s thirty-year journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world - and triumphs against all odds. SKIN is a story of family, forgiveness and the triumph of the human spirit. PG-13, 107 minutes.
http://www.skinthemovie.net/site/home
Co-Sponsored by African Peoples History Month Committee
CineCulture Club: http://cineculture.csufresno.edu/
Parking is relaxed after 4 p.m.
CineCulture is a film series provided as a service to the Fresno State campus students, faculty, and staff, and community, at no charge. In addition, CineCulture is offered as a 3 unit academic course in the Mass Communication and Journalism Department.
CineCulture Club promotes cultural awareness through film and post-screening
discussions.
For further information contact:
Club President: Maggie Simms maggies@mail.fresnostate.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Husain mhusain@csufresno.edu
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Sarah Wetzel Poetry Reading
Sarah Wetzel, last year's winner of the Philip Levine Poetry Book prize, will read from her winning book Bathsheba Transatlantic on Friday, February 25 at 7:00 p.m. at the Peters Educational Center (in the Student Recreation Center at Fresno State.
Sarah Wetzel is a poet, essayist, and engineer. She grew up a daughter of the American South, but somehow ended up in Israel after job-hopping across the Americas and Europe. Sarah graduated from Georgia Tech in 1989, and in 1997, received a MBA from The University of California, Berkeley.
She completed a MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College in January 2009. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize for 2009, her work has most recently been published or is forthcoming in US publications including Rattle, Pedestal, Stirring, DecomP, Folly, TwoReview, Shampoo, and Eclectica, and in Israeli publications including Cyclamens and Swords. She currently lives in Israel with her husband, four step children, and one needy dog.
Corrinne Clegg Hales
Professor of English
MFA Program in Creative Writing
Department of English
5245 N. Backer Ave., M/S PB98
Fresno, CA 93740-8001
connieh@csufresno.edu
559-278-2359
Sarah Wetzel is a poet, essayist, and engineer. She grew up a daughter of the American South, but somehow ended up in Israel after job-hopping across the Americas and Europe. Sarah graduated from Georgia Tech in 1989, and in 1997, received a MBA from The University of California, Berkeley.
She completed a MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College in January 2009. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize for 2009, her work has most recently been published or is forthcoming in US publications including Rattle, Pedestal, Stirring, DecomP, Folly, TwoReview, Shampoo, and Eclectica, and in Israeli publications including Cyclamens and Swords. She currently lives in Israel with her husband, four step children, and one needy dog.
Corrinne Clegg Hales
Professor of English
MFA Program in Creative Writing
Department of English
5245 N. Backer Ave., M/S PB98
Fresno, CA 93740-8001
connieh@csufresno.edu
559-278-2359
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