Showing as part of Columbia College’s conference “Dignity Without Borders: Arts, Media and Human Rights,” this series of screenings and discussions runs Monday through Wednesday, May 5 through 7. Screenings will be at Columbia College Dance Center, 1306 S. Michigan, and Columbia College Ludington Bldg. Admission is free; for more information call 312-344-6725.
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Filmmakers Jerry Blumenthal and Gordon Quinn will take part in a discussion on immigration at this screening of a selected episode from their PBS series The New Americans, broadcast in 2002. (Columbia College Dance Center, 6:00)
TUESDAY, MAY 6
Shorts and excerpts from longer works, some by Columbia College faculty and students. On the program: Peter Kuttner, Eric Scholl, and Cyndi Moran’s The End of the Nightstick: Confronting Police Brutality in Chicago; Ted Hardin’s One More Mile: A Dialogue on Nation-Building; Michael Caplan’s A Generation Between; C.A. Griffith and H.L.T. Quan’s What if I Were to Remain Here?; Griffith, Quan, and Jeff Spitz’s music video What a System; Spitz and Mickey Madoda Dube’s work in progress The Robben Island Singers; Gabriel Feijoo’s Everybody Dies in It and Alice in Warland; J. Reynaldo Roman’s Imaginary Landscape No. 11; Jerry Tran’s Apathetic America; and Mario Carrasco’s Michael Ryan. (Columbia College Ludington Bldg., 6:00)
