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Working Families in Focus: Shorts Program and Photography Exhibit

October 24, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Free

Join janitor, garment and domestic worker parents and their children for an evening of social movement culture and art! Filmmakers, photographers, poets, and musicians of color will share works that uplift the resilience and power of immigrant working families.

Light dinner and refreshments will be provided.
This event is FREE. Please RSVP at http://bit.ly/workingfamiliesinfocus

PROGRAM
6-6:30pm: Food, music, photography
6:30-7pm: Opening remarks & artistic collaboration with El-Haru Kuroi
7-8:15pm: Shorts Program
Sewing Resilience: Santa & the Garment Workers, directed by Wil’ Prada
Doña Julia, directed by Dilan Garcia Lopez
Campesino, music video featuring QUITA PENAS
Ella, music video featuring El-Haru Kuroi
Un Nuevo Sol, from The Center for Cultural Power (Formerly CultureStrike)
8:15-8:30pm: Q&A with filmmakers

Produced by: Wil’ Prada

Sponsored by: UCLA Labor Center, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Garment Worker Center, IDEPSCA, Mujeres En Accion, Building Skills Partnership, and UCLA Center for Mexican Studies

Thank you to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for its generous support!

For more information, please contact Janna Shadduck-Hernandez at jshernandez@irle.ucla.edu.

Details

Organizer

  • UCLA Labor Center

Venue

  • UCLA Downtown Labor Center
  • 675 S. Park View St.
    Los Angeles, CA 90057 United States
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