Noche de Cine | Movie Night
Latinx Heritage Month 2022
September 22, 2022
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
University Hall Lawn | Outdoors
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Download iCal FileCome relax at our “Noche de Cine'' event to watch the movie “Walkout” that depicts the hardships and inequalities experienced by high school students in East L.A. and sheds light on the significance of the Chicanx Movement. We will be providing snacks, but you are welcome to bring your own snack and blanket. The event will take place on Thursday, September 22 at University Hall (UH) Lawn from 7pm-9pm. The event will take place outside, dress accordingly to the weather. Our guest speaker, Matt Sedillo will be opening the event for the first 30 minutes and will provide insight on his forms of writing from the vantage point of a second generation Chicano born in an era of diminishing opportunities and crumbling economy.
“Matt Sedillo has been described as the "best political poet in America" as well as "the poet laureate of the struggle" by academics, poets, and journalists alike. He has appeared on CSPAN and has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. He has spoken at Casa de las Americas in Havana, Cuba, at numerous conferences and forums such as the National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education, and at over a hundred universities and colleges, including the University of Cambridge, among many others. He is the current literary director of the dA Center for the Arts and author of Mowing Leaves of Grass (Flowersong Press, 2019), which is currently being taught at California State University at Northridge and Monterey Bay, as well as at Mission College. His Three Act Poem structure has been taught as capstones of coursework at UCLA and Occidental College. His next poetry collection, City on the Second Floor, will be published January 2021.
Born in El Sereno, California in 1981, Matt Sedillo writes from the vantage point of a second generation Chicano born in an era of diminishing opportunities and a crumbling economy. His writing - a fearless, challenging and at times even confrontational blend of humor, history and political theory - is a reflection of those realities.
The poetry of Matt Sedillo is in turn a shot in the arm of pure revolutionary adrenaline and at others a sobering call for the fundamental restructuring of society in the interest of people not profits. Passionate, analytical, humorous and above all sincere, a revolutionary poet fortunate enough to be living in interesting times, the artistry of Matt Sedillo is a clarion call for all those who know a new world is not only possible but inevitable.”
Date posted
Aug 20, 2022
Date updated
Sep 22, 2022