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Join Curator, Leila Weefur (CCA Faculty) and Terrance Daye, one of the filmmakers from the upcoming film program New Labor Movements at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts around the upcoming New Labor Movments exhibition. New Labor Movements, curated by Weefur, is a collection of short films that explore contemporary visions of America and concepts of transnational Blackness. They will discuss and screen a part of Daye's film, Cherish, a short film about a Black boy in the rural south who tries to fly.

***OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

THIS EVENT IS PART OF THE FIRST-EVER CCA FILM WEEK, a time for our community to come together, to explore, reflect on and celebrate the power and potential of the moving image, the diversity of voices working in this field and our questions related to racial and social justice.

"New Labor Movements" will be on view at the McEvoy Foundation from the Arts from October 14 - March 13, 2020. For more information, visit the McEvoy Foundation.

PARTICIPANT BIOS:

Leila Weefur (She/They/He) is a trans-gender-noncomforming artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, CA. Their interdisciplinary practice examines the performativity intrinsic to systems of belonging present in our lived experiences. The work brings together concepts of the sensorial memory, abject Blackness, hyper- surveillance, and the erotic.

Terrance Daye is an award winning poet and filmmaker from Long Island, New York. His creative work reimagines traditional representations of black masculinity and male identity and invests strongly in destigmatizing mental illness within the black community. Terrance received his Bachelor’s degree from Morehouse College and his Master’s in Fine Arts in filmmaking at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Terrance's film -Ship: A Visual Poem was awarded a Short Film Jury Award for U.S. Fiction at this year's Sundance Film Festival. He was recently named a 2020 Sundance Episodic Labs fellow to develop his limited series pilot, Mandingo.

IMAGE: Terrance Daye, Cherish (still), 2018, Digital video, Color, sound, 6 mins.