THE JOHN F. O'LOUGHLIN LEADERSHIP SERIES ENDOWMENT PRESENTS
Debra Chasnoff
Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow
and
President and Senior Producer at
GroundSpark
Safe Schools ~ Social Justice Advocacy ~ Filmmaking for Change
Sponsored by The John F. O'Loughlin Leadership Series Endowment
Debra Chasnoff, Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has fueled progressive social-change movements in many fields, will be on campus for a three-day residency. She will be visiting classes and will offer a public lecture series addressing safe schools, social justice advocacy, and filmmaking for change.
Lecture Series Schedule:
What it Takes to Create Safe and Welcoming Schools – My Twenty Year
Dream is Coming True
Tuesday, October 23rd at 7:30pm
Eben Holden
Lecture includes film screening of Let’s Get Real, with excerpts from Straightlaced - How Gender’s Got Us All Tied Up and It’s Elementary - Talking About Gay Issues in School
Forging a Path as a Social Justice Advocate
Wednesday, October 24th at 7:30pm
Griffiths 123
Lecture includes film screening of It’s STILL Elementary, with excerpts from Deadly Deception – General Electric, Nuclear Weapons, and Our Environment and Homes and Hands – Community Land Trusts and Action
Documentary Filmmaking for Change: Tricks of the Trade
Thursday, October 25th at 4:30pm
Griffiths 123
Lecture includes film screening of One Wedding and a Revolution, with excerpts from That’s a Family! and A Foot in the Door (on-line very soon)