Film Showing & Community Diversity Conversation With Director Lee Mun Wah

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Event:
Film Showing & Community Diversity Conversation With Director Lee Mun Wah
Start:
November 1, 2012 6:30 pm
End:
November 1, 2012 9:30 pm
Cost:
Free
Category:
Organizer:
Ron Jackson
Phone:
502-873-4479
rjackson03@spalding.edu
Updated:
October 4, 2012
Venue:
Spalding University. University Center Auditorium
Address:
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824 South 4th Street, Louisville, KY, 40203, United States

If our halls could talk, what would they say about the alarming rates of students of color leaving our colleges? Lee Mun Wah will lead an open and authentic diversity dialogue.

If These Halls Could Talk explores the myriad of ways educators can learn how to develop authentic class­room environments where diversity issues can be discussed openly and safely. Through stories and personal exchanges, eleven students from various colleges and personal backgrounds share what makes it unsafe for them in the classroom and what it is like to be a minority/immigrant on a predominantly white campus. They explore issues of trust and distrust amongst one another, with other students and college staff/faculty.

Lee Mun Wah models, for the first time, how to facilitate interpersonal conflicts and diversity issues mindfully and transformatively in the classroom.

Lee Mun Wah is an internationally renowned Chinese American documentary filmmaker, author, poet, Asian folkteller, educator, community therapist and master diversity trainer. If These Halls Could Talk is his latest film.

Sponsored by: Diversity Consciousness Action Group; Student Development & Campus Life; and Student Government and Campus Activities Board.

 

is an internationally renowned Chinese American documentary filmmaker, author, poet, Asian folkteller, educator, community therapist and master diversity trainer. If These Halls Could Talk is his latest film.