Summer 07: Feminist Film Studies

Minnesota History Center, St. Paul MN
Dates: June 24, 2007
Time: 2 to 3 p.m.
Fee: Free

Visitors are invited to the world premiere of "Minnesota's Greatest Girls," a unique filmmaking collaboration between girl filmmakers and senior women of the Twin Cities. The film features reflections on such locally popular institutions as the Prom Ballroom in St. Paul and Kresge's dime store in Minneapolis. With these landmarks as a background, women and girls share memories of childhood toys, first jobs, dating, and college life through conversation and shared activities. The film's stories are specific life experiences, but the emotions and lessons conveyed in the storytelling evoke universal adolescent milestones. Participants from the film will answer questions following the screening. The film is offered as part of the "Minnesota's Greatest Generation" Project, an ongoing effort by the Minnesota Historical Society to collect and preserve memories of Minnesotans who came of age during World War II. It was produced in collaboration with TVbyGIRLS, and the Wellington Senior Center, as part of a Save Our History Grant sponsored by the History Channel.

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Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop
Featuring Cey Adams, Jeff Chang, Roger Cummings, and Rachel Raimist
Thursday, June 14, 7 pm
Walker Art Center Cinema
Free tickets available at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk from 6 pm

Since its beginning, hip-hop has left its mark on theater, poetry, performance art, dance, visual arts, film, and video. Though it is one of the big ideas of this generation, hip-hop is often subcategorized into such themes as “spoken word poetry,� “street literature,� “post–black art,� or “urban art.� This panel discussion focuses on how hip-hop is expanding in ways that cannot be so easily defined.

Cey Adams’ graphics can be seen on countless album covers (Jay-Z, Method Man, Beastie Boys and have been featured in clothing lines (Sean John), movies, and TV shows (Belly, Next Friday, Chapelle’s Show).

Jeff Chang, author of the books Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, has written extensively on race, culture, politics, and the arts for numerous publications.

Roger Cummings is the cofounder and artistic director of Juxtaposition Arts, a North Minneapolis urban art center whose mission is to empower youth and community to use the arts to actualize their full potential.

Rachel Raimist is a Twin Cities–based filmmaker and director of Nobody Knows My Name, which chronicles the stories of women in hip-hop.

Presented by WACTAC.

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