The Multiple Identity Film Series features independent films, often produced by local artists that explore innovative ways that art, activism and the media can be used as a vehicle for social change. The film series seeks to aspirations and challenge its attendees to raise their self awareness on diversity and social justice issues in New York City, the United States and the World.
Thursday, March 1, 6:00 – 8:00 PM, Casa Italiana NYU, 24 West 12th Street
In this collection of recent Asian American film and video, experimental and documentary forms are used to explore the acts - generous, cruel and almost always compromised - that sustain and unravel families. What is passed on through blood and kinship is complicated through personal stories that negotiate history, dreams and reality in ways that make life, as refracted from these short films, both extraordinary and mundane. This event also includes the screening of “A Son’s Sacrifice” by Yoni Brook. This documentary tracks the days leading up to the Muslim holiday of Qurbani, as 27-year-old Imran- who grapples with this identity in the Muslim community because he is half Puerto Rican- prepares to prove to his father and his customers that he is ready to take over the family business.
In partnership with the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Free and open to the public. Please RSVP at apa.rsvp@nyu.edu.
Tuesday, April 3, 6:00 – 8:00 PM, Kimmel 802
Coming Out Muslim: Radical Acts of Love, captures stories and experiences of being at the intersections of Islam and queerness and its relationship to family, lovers, one’s sense of self and relationship with our faith. Terna Tilley-Gyado and Wazina Zondon utilize traditional storytelling and conversation as the medium for exploring the broad range of their experiences as queer Muslims. The stories Coming Out Muslim tells range from tales about other people’s theories about where queerness comes from, the gifts of being queer and Muslim, the tension between one’s culture and religion, and love—romantic and spiritual. Coming Out Muslim is both funny and poignant. Everyone is welcome. Please RSVP via cmep@nyu.edu.
In partnership with the LGBTQ Storytelling and Performance Series and co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.
Thursday, March 22, 6:00 – 8:00 PM, Kimmel Center 802
Join us for the screening of Gun Hill Road, a film directed by Tisch Alumn Rashaad Ernesto Green. In this film, when Enrique (Esai Morales) returns home to the Bronx after a three-year prison sentence, he finds his family transformed. His wife, Angela (Judy Reyes), struggles to hide an emotional affair, and his teenage son, Michael, has become Vanessa—poignantly played by Harmony Santana, who was undergoing her own gender transition during the filming. Can Enrique find the strength to accept Vanessa for who she has become, or will he cling to his conceptions of masculinity and revert to the patterns of his criminal past? Despite its brutality, this Sundance favorite is a touching story of acceptance in the tough, unforgiving world of the Bronx. Meet and greet with Rashaad Ernesto Green, with post-screening reception.
In partnership with the LGBTQ Storytelling and Performance Series. Free and open to the public. Please RSVP via alumni.nyu.edu/gunhillroad-event.
Wednesday, April 11, 6:30-8:30PM, Global Center for Academic & Spiritual Life, C-95 Auditorium
Narrated by Golden Globe nominee, Blair Underwood, First Generation tells the story of four high school students - an inner city athlete, a small town waitress, a Samoan warrior dancer, and the daughter of migrant field workers - who set out to break the cycle of poverty and bring hope to their families and communities by pursuing a college education. The film debuted at various film festivals throughout the U.S. this fall and had its west coast and east coast premieres at USC and Penn respectively. This would be the first screening in New York City - check out the trailerhere. This screening is free and open to current NYU students, faculty/staff, alumni and prospective students. Please RSVP via this link.
Hosted by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions in partnership with the College of Arts and Science. Co-sponsored by the CMEP Multiple Identity Film Series and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund at NYU.
The Multiple Identity Speaker Series is a collaborative program that seeks to present timely topics of diversity and social justice issues particularly as it relates to religion, socioeconomic class, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.
Thursday, February 16, 6:30 -8:00 PM, Academic Resource Center LL02
The Multiple Identity Film Series presents “What the U.S. Can Learn from China,” a book talk with author Ann Lee. Mainstream media and the U.S. government regularly target China as a threat. Rather than viewing China’s power, influence, and contributions to the global economy in a negative light, Ann Lee asks crucial questions about how America can learn from its competition. From education to governance to foreign aid, Lee details the policies and practices that have made China a global power and then isolates the ways the United States can use China’s enduring principles to foster much-needed change at home. What the U.S. Can Learn from China is Lee’s rallying cry for a new approach at a time when learning from one another is the key to surviving and thriving. Books will be available for sale. Everyone is welcome.
Thursday, February 23, 12:00 – 2:00 PM, Vanderbilt Hall Room 201, NYU School of Law
Join us for a presentation by Ned Blackhawk, Professor of History and American Studies at Yale, and Theodore Van Alst, Assistant Dean of Yale College and Director of Yale’s Native American Cultural Center. This presentation will encompass Professor Blackhawk’s scholarship and ways in which to develop scholarly insight. Dean Van Alst will discuss many of the exciting initiatives occurring through Yale’s Native American Cultural Center. Everyone is welcome.
In partnership with the Native American and Indigenous Students Group at NYU. Please RSVP at cmep@nyu.edu.
