South Side Sisterhood: As Seen in Home Movies
@ Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Sunday, May 5th, from 2PM - 4PM
Join South Side women and girls for a unique public program exploring the resilience and complexity of familial bonds through watching and discussing home movies. At a moment when media representations of the South Side depict violence and disruption, let’s look at how women and girls—behind and in front of the camera—use moving images to navigate relationships with their families, peers, and communities.
* Event features music by DJ Selah Say + dance performance by Global Girls. *
The South Side Home Movie Project combed through our archive to find scenes of sisters, and invited these now-grown women to reflect on their childhood and the role that sisterhood has played in their lives. We invited Global Girls, a performing arts organization for young African American women in Greater Grand Crossing, to share their perspectives as younger women and their insight into contemporary modes of self-representation. In a public film screening and conversation moderated by SSHMP director and UChicago film scholar Jacqueline Stewart, these groups will watch and talk along with the audience as family dynamics, sibling relationships, and the everyday lives of South Siders unfold on the screen.
Free and open to the public. Reception.
ASL interpretation provided.
Logan Center for the Arts Penthouse (room 901)
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
This program is presented by the South Side Home Movie Project, sponsored by the Illinois Humanities Council, with support from UChicago Arts and the Logan Center for the Arts.
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