WTTR: "The Forty-Year-Old Version" film screening

Friday March 19th
7:00pm eastern

Zoom ID: 96249216669

The Forty-Year-Old Version is written, directed, and produced by Radha Blank, in her feature directorial debut.

Radha is a down-on-her-luck NY playwright, who is desperate for a breakthrough before 40. Reinventing herself as rapper RadhaMUSPrime, she vacillates between the worlds of Hip Hop and theater in order to find her true voice.

You can watch on your own time on Netflix, or join this screening prior to the panel!

WTTR: "13th" film screening

Saturday, March 20th
7:00pm eastern

Zoom ID: 96775784646

13th is a documentary film directed by Ava DuVernay.

The film explores the "intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States;" it is titled after the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1865, which abolished slavery throughout the United States and ended involuntary servitude except as a punishment for conviction of a crime.

You can watch on your own time on Netflix, or join this screening prior to the panel!

WTTR: "The Forty-Year-Old Version" panel discussion

Monday March 22nd
4:30 - 5:30pm eastern

Please RSVP

Zoom ID: 94104436406

Panelists: 
Dawn Simmons (Artistic Director, Front Porch Arts Collective; Executive Director, Stage Source)
Lyndsay Allyn Cox (Senior Director, Programs & Experiences, Boston Center for the Arts)
Kirsten Greenidge (Andrew W. Mellon/Howlround Playwriting Fellow, Company One Theatre; Acting Chair, Theatre Arts, Boston University)

Moderator: Dani Snyder-Young (Assistant Professor of Theatre, Northeastern University)

You can watch the film The Forty-Year-Old Version on your own time before the panel, or join the screening.

WTTR: "13th" panel discussion

Thursday March 25th
4:30 - 5:30pm eastern

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Zoom ID: 93509899378

Panelists: 
Jenn Jackson (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University),
Black and Pink (United States prison abolitionist organization supporting LGBTQ+ and HIV-positive prisoners),
Carla Shedd (Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Education, The Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Moderator TBD

You can watch the film 13th on your own time before the panel, or join the screening.