[English-undergrad] Fwd: [Englishfaculty] TODAY: Bonus screening @ 2:30 in ARTS 335& at 7pm Congo screening & filmmaker talkback @ UCR Arts

[James Tobias]

Hi Everyone,

Check out these great events happening today!

Two films about Congo - one this afternoon on campus, and the other, with a filmmaker visiting in person at UCR Arts tonight!

These will be very much worth your time and energy!

jt

—
James Tobias, Ph.D.
Professor 
Chair, Department of English

https://ucr.zoom.us/j/95465985946?pwd=Z1A4Yk1UZDhBTjY5UkJ5R1VQTWUvQT09

"We at UCR would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of this land, water, and air: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. Today this meeting place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including UCR faculty, students, and staff, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands."

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: "Courtney R. Baker via Englishfaculty" <englishfaculty at lists.ucr.edu>
> Subject: [Englishfaculty] TODAY: Bonus screening @ 2:30 in ARTS 335& at 7pm Congo screening & filmmaker talkback @ UCR Arts
> Date: April 18, 2025 at 10:49:53 AM PDT
> To: GSEA English <englishgrad at lists.ucr.edu>, "English Faculty (englishfaculty at lists.ucr.edu)" <englishfaculty at lists.ucr.edu>
> Reply-To: "Courtney R. Baker" <courtneb at ucr.edu>
> 
> I’m sharing a reminder about now two screening and filmmaker/activist events happening today with delegates from the Friends of the Congo organization. This will be a fascinating event for all interested in indigenous ecologies, activism, environmentalism and climate justice, global blackness, Afro-futurism and Afro-speculation, genocide, ecocide, and antimperialism.
> 
> Today at 230 pm in Arts 335: Screening of MATATA and discussion hosted by film professor Christophe Katrib with filmmaker Petna Ndaliko Katondolo and Friends of Congo.
> 
> Today at 7pm in UCR Arts: Screening of LWANZO and talkback hosted with Katondolo and professor Kim Yi Dionne (Political Science, UCR).
> 
> On April 14, 2025 at 1:09:06 PM, Courtney R. Baker (courtneb at ucr.edu <mailto:courtneb at ucr.edu>) wrote:
> 
>> I wanted to alert folks to a screening and talkback that I have organized, in partnership with the William Grant Still Arts Center (Los Angeles), of the short film Lwanzo (Cobalt) (2025) to be held at UCR ARTS this Friday, April 18th at 7pm. Admission is free. UCR professor of Political Science Kim Yi Dionne will be in conversation with the director, Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, following the screening.
>> 
>> This event is of interest to those interested in African Indigineity, mineral and resource extraction, climate justice, and liberation politics. Contact courtneb at ucr.edu <mailto:courtneb at ucr.edu> for more details.
>> 
>> https://ucrarts.ucr.edu/films/lwanzo-cobalt/
>> 
>> Please spread the word.

Dr. Courtney R. Baker (she/her)
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> We at UCR would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of this land, water, and air: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. Today this meeting place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including UCR faculty, students, and staff, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands.
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