Thursday, October 17, 2024

Communities of Care: Documenting Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe Country
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Watson Theater, Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave. (Syracuse University), Syracuse

A screening by The Abortion Clinic Film Collective, a group of six feminist filmmakers with diverse backgrounds and distinctive styles who came together from around the country in the wake of the overturning of Roe v Wade to document the impact of the ruling on their own communities. The program includes new work by award-winning filmmaker Lynne Sachs, who shot footage in Syracuse with local reproductive justice advocates from Layla's Got You.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Ðoan Hoàng, Raymond Rea, and Lynne Sachsas well as reproductive justice advocates J'viona Baker, Ja'Rhea Dixon, Vernahia Davis, and Angela Stroman.

Light refreshments from Recess Coffee & Roastery will also be served.

Street parking is available on Waverly and Comstock Avenue outside of the building.

This special event is held in conjunction with the exhibition of Sachs' This Side of Salina at Light Work Urban Video Pproject's architectural projection site on the Everson Museum facade.