3-5 p.m. – An exploration of communities along the Front Range that are hidden or veiled, existing outside the mainstream, a discussion not only about ways in which they are invisible and/or oppressed, but their about agency and where and how they find their strengths. Participants include Marina LaGrave, Acilia Lewis, Malaika Pettigrew, Dayne Anderson, Ghada Elturk and Joy Eckstine.
Community Reception – Saturday, June 14, 5-6 p.m. – Social event to meet panelists of “What is Hidden: Revelations of Veiled Communities” and continue discussions informally.
Films,6-9:30 p.m.—The Allure of Vanish (2007), a 3:37-minute experimental film poem, by Mary Kite and Ana Baer-Carillo; Hollywood Harems, (2006) a 24-minute film by Tania Kamal-Eldin (herwayproductions.com) examining Hollywood’s continuing eroticized, exoticized fabrications of the Orient, wherein Middle Eastern men are often depicted negatively as buffoons, villains and sexual predators and women are relegated to harems and dancing girls terrorists; Prince Among Slaves (2007, Unity Productions), directed by Bill Duke, narrated by Mos Def and winner of the Best Documentary 2007 American Black Film Festival, is the amazing true story of Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori, an African Prince enslaved in the Americas; Bread and Roses (2000), a film by Ken Loach, starring Pilar Padillo and Adrian Brody, about two Latina sisters who work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize – “the balance of power is about to change.”
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