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Film in Community: Short Films & Panel Discussion

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Join the Walker Art Center at four different local community centers—Sabathani Community Center, Hallie Q Brown Community Center, Phillips Community Center, and St. Paul Neighborhood Network—for free screenings of Cuban films.

Film in Community remembers the work of 1980s Twin Cities organizers, the Neighborhood Media Project, and their collaborations with community groups to host screenings at community centers. For this four-part screening series, the Walker will screen Cuban films, highlighting the connections between the political spirit of the Neighborhood Media Project and similar Cuban projects. The final screening will be followed by an in-depth conversation with Gary Cunningham, Neighborhood Media Project founder; Franklin Curbelo, organizer of the Twin Cities Cuban Film Festival; and Leola Johnson, associate professor and chair of Media and Cultural Studies at Macalester College.

Additional screenings:

– Van Van Fever (Eso que anda) (1974), Ian Padrón, November 14 , 5:30 pm, Sabathani Community Center

– One Way or Another (De cierta manera) (1974), Sara Gómez, December 6, 6 pm, Hallie Q. Brown Community Center

– The Teacher (El Brigadista) (1978), Octavio Cortázar, January 8, 6 pm, Phillips Community Center

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Van Van Fever (Eso que anda)

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From 1979 to 1982, the Neighborhood Media Project hosted some 60 film screenings at community centers across the Twin Cities and the upper Midwest. Created in conjunction with the exhibition Adiós Utopia, this series chronicles the project's history, its neighborhood-based mission of providing people of color and low-income residents with "media resources for their efforts to build community strength," and its links to mobile cinemas of the Cuban Revolution.

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