Filmmakers Workshop–> Documenting Black Experiences with Sylvia Hamilton
February 24, 2010 12:08 pm
The Harriet Tubman Institute
and
The Centre for the Study of Black Cultures in Canada
proudly announce
Documenting Black Experiences with Sylvia Hamilton Meet the filmmaker and watch the films of Sylvia Hamilton
Friday, 26 February, 2010: 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Workshop: Filmmaking in the Canadian, African-Canadian and African-Nova Scotian contexts.
Venue: Centre for Film and Theatre (CFT) Room 106.
Saturday, 27 February, 2010: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
See the films of Dr. Sylvia Hamilton and attend her public lecture and discussion. Venue: San Romanoway Community Centre, Screening Room,
15 San Romanoway (off Finch Avenue, opposite Jane Finch Mall)
The films that will be featured will include The Little Black School House, a chronicle of Canada’s racially segregated schools, Black Mother Black Daughter and Speak It! From the Heart of Black Nova Scotia and Portia White: Think On Me, a documentary about the extraordinary African Canadian contralto.
Both events are FREE and OPEN to all York students, faculty and the public.
Dr. Sylvia Hamilton, acclaimed Nova Scotian documentary filmmaker, writer and educator, has produced a number of pioneering films which have chronicled the rich histories and experiences of African Canadians in their struggles to achieve dignity and equality in a society which has not always acknowledged or welcomed the African Canadian presence. She has been the recipient of major awards, including a Gemini, Nova Scotia’s Portia White Prize for Excellence in the Arts, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation’s Maeda Prize, the Progress Women of Excellence Award for Arts and Culture and the CBC Television Pioneer Award.
The Harriet Tubman Institute