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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

April 21: Moving Across the Diaspora: Black Visual Storytelling



Screening, Performance and Conversation
with filmmakers Kumi and Jalise Beamon, and performer Storyboard P.
Thursday, 5-7, McCormick Screening Room
Moderated by Sandra Johnson

Kumi is an artist, storyteller, and healer. Her current work focuses on using art and storytelling tool to heal from trauma. 

Jalise Beamon is a student filmmaker from Chino, Ca. She is currently an undergraduate at the University of California, Irvine studying Film and Media and African American Studies. Jalise's short experimental films focus on Black folks and the ways in which they navigate themselves through structures of violence in order to live, love and dream.

Sandra Johnson is a 4th year graduating senior at UCI. She is an African-American Studies major, whose research on race relations in Cuba, "Anything But Black: A Contextual Analysis of the Afro-Cuban Experience in a Communist Regime," was presented in the 2015 UROP symposium. 

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