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Sundance Collab Presents Writers' Cafe FREE Virtual Event
Type of Event: Collaborative Writing Event
Location: Virtual Event
Looking to add a bit of discipline to your writing schedule? Then join us for an hour of dedicated writing in our online Writers’ Cafe. It's the perfect time to join others working on their projects or simply exercising their creative muscles. We’ll have a writing prompt posted to spark the imagination and the room’s chat function enabled if you want to pose a question, get community feedback, or make new connections. It's free, so there’s no reason not to pull up a chair and join in.
This will be the two year anniversary of the Writer's Cafe for Sundance Collab.
Johnny Irion
Dr. Benjamin Gilmer
The Story of The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, A Murder, and An Unlikely Fight For Justice
Type of Event: Storytelling And Music
Location: Wortham Center for the Performing Arts
A powerful true story about a shocking crime and a mysterious illness that will forever change your notions of how we punish and how we heal—an expansion on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time.
Benjamin Gilmer will take us through his experience from first meeting Sarah Koenig to the surprise ending that stopped the presses of his book. Joining Benjamin will be the ever talented Johnny Irion and other musical friends sharing songs inspired by this story.
KELCEY EDWARDS
Andrew Mer
The Art of Making It (Film Screening & Live Q&A)
Type of Event: Film and Live Q&A
Location: Wortham Center for the Performing Arts
Winner of the Audience Choice Award for SXSW this year, "The Art of Making It" is a film about who gets seen and who gets left behind in today’s seductive, secretive and unregulated art world. The film follows a diverse group of compelling young artists on the brink of unimaginable success or failure as they challenge systems, break barriers and risk it all with the goal of making it in an industry where all the rules are currently being rewritten. Filmmaker Q&A to follow after the film.
Mija (Film Screening)
Type of Event: Film
Location: Wortham Center for the Performing Arts
Doris Muñoz is a young, ambitious music manager whose undocumented family depends on her ability to launch pop stars. When she loses her biggest client, Doris hustles to discover new talent and finds Jacks, another daughter of immigrants for whom "making it" isn't just a dream: it's a necessity.
Propaganda
Book Reading: Terraform: Building A Better World by Propaganda
Type of Event: Book Reading
Location: Worth Center for the Performing Arts
In this debut collection of essays and poetry, musician, speaker, and activist Propaganda inspires us to create a better, more equitable world. "If we get to make the very cultures that shape who we are, then let us remake them in the best way possible.”In this deep, challenging, and thoughtful book, Propaganda looks at the ways in which our world is broken. Using the metaphor of terraforming—creating a livable world out of an inhospitable one—he shows how we can begin to reshape our homes, friendships, communities, and politics. In this debut collection of essays and poetry, musician, speaker, and activist Propaganda inspires us to create a better, more equitable world.
“If we get to make the very cultures that shape who we are, then let us remake them in the best way possible.”
In this deep, challenging, and thoughtful book, Propaganda looks at the ways in which our world is broken. Using the metaphor of terraforming—creating a livable world out of an inhospitable one—he shows how we can begin to reshape our homes, friendships, communities, and politics.
Propaganda
Dr. Natalie Hopkinson
Hood Politics with Prop Podcast Recording with Propaganda and Dr. Natalie Hopkinson
Type of Event: Live Podcast Recording/Fireside Chat
Location: Worth Center for the Performing Arts
The political landscape can be confusing, but it doesn't have to be. If you've survived jr high, lived in an urban city or understand gang life, you can understand geopolitics. Join rapper and author Propaganda and his friends as they use their hood-knowledge to break down the political scene. On this live episode, Prop talks to Dr. Natalie Hopkinson about her campaign to be 100% Disruptive to fight anti-blackness in the arts and public life.
Julie Schwietert Collazo
Francisco Collazo
Split At The Root (Film Screening & Live Q&A)
Type of Event: Film and Q&A
Location: Wortham Center for the Performing Arts
Mothers separated from their children at the U.S. border and the grassroots initiative that, against all odds, reunites those families. When a Guatemalan mother seeking asylum was separated from her kids under the Zero Tolerance Policy, a Facebook post by a mom in Queens coalesced into a movement as thousands of like-minded women across the US refused to stand by quietly. Immigrant Families Together was born - a rapid response group committed to doing what the government couldn't - or wouldn't do: reunite parents with their children separated by the Zero Tolerance Policy. Following the screening, please join us for a live Q&A with Immigrant Families Together founders (and subjects of the film) Julie Schwietert-Collazo and Francisco Collazo.